Posts by Tony Greenstein
Imagine if this were a synagogue
5,571182 Just imagine if this were a synagogue in say Iran (which has the largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside Israel). Dozens of security forces invade the place of worship, fire tear gas and stun grenades, injure a number of worshippers and cause much destruction. What would be the reaction? Many people would…
Read MoreA Picture of Apartheid – One Picture, Two Images
The Difference in Treatment Between Palestinian and Israeli Youth This picture from Jerusalem made yesterday “shows a dual system that discriminates” against Palestinians. Dalia Hatuqa’s twitter feed Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian man during clashes after Israeli authorities limited access for Muslim worshipers to the flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque compound in the old city of…
Read MoreGenocide in Gaza – Remembering the Slaughter of the Innocents
Operation Protective Edge was Operation Deliberate Murder This Saturday, on the anniversary of Israel’s unprovoked attack on Gaza and the murder of over 2,200 people, including 521 children, Brighton PSC commemorated those who died. Included in the commemoration were the paintings by Brighton artist, Kerry Beal, of the children she met and who died in…
Read MoreDifferential Justice for Arabs and Israeli Jews
Imprisoned for racial incitement on Facebook? Only if you’re an Arab Omar Shalabi, the secretary general of Fatah’s Jerusalem branch to nine months in prison for using his personal Facebook account to incite violence and support terrorism against Israeli civilians. One of the most popular slogans of Israeli propaganda is the claim that ‘Israel is…
Read MoreIsraelis on Facebook wish death for Holocaust survivors against ‘Protective Edge’
I came across this article, written on the Israeli magazine website 972mag at the time of Protective Edge. 300 survivors of the holocaust had taken an advertisement out in the New York Times to say that they dissociated themselves from Protective Edge, the bombing and attack on Gaza and the mass killing inflicted on a…
Read MoreThe Worst Political Interview of the Year/Decade
Thick, Deaf and Rude – Congratulations Kay Burley of Sky/Fox TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fp_GoKhRT0 Sky News/Fox TV’s presenter Kay Burley not only showed how awful she is but she seems to be suffering from a hearing problem in her interview with the amazingly patient Dawn Butler MP. Repeatedly she asked the same question, despite having received…
Read MoreAnother Act of Betrayal by Syriza as Greece Cosies Up to Israel
Words are barely necessary to describe this visit to Israel by the Greek Defence Minister and what is clearly an attack on the US-Iranian Accord. Kammenos is the leader of the Independent Greeks ANEL party in coalition with Syriza, but he couldn’t have signed an agreement with Israel without the agreement of Tsipras. According to…
Read MoreCOUNTERPUNCH – Time for Socialists & anti-imperialists to Boycott It
Cockburn’s Coven – Where Fascists and White Supremacists Seek to Entice the Left Mark Elf has just let me know of an excellent article by Elise Hendrick entitled Counterpunch or Suckerpunch Claude Cockburn – son of a distinguished Communist journalist – who excused racism and fascism Naomi Klein – a left and anti-Zionist star who…
Read MoreShock Horror – The Royals Just Loved the Nazis
Ruling Class Support for the Nazis The History that the Establishment Prefers We Forget According to the Daily Express – it wasn’t Hitler who oppressed the Jews – it was the Jews who waged war on Hitler! Nothing much has changed except that the Express now has a Jewish pornmonger, Richard Desmond as its owner…
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