Posts by Tony Greenstein
Ian Duncan Smith Fights to Keep List of People He’s Killed Secret
Iain Duncan Smith claims 200,000-strong campaign to reveal Tory benefits deaths is ‘disgraceful’ 23 June 2015 By Dan Bloom ‘The coroner said that when David Clapson died he had no food in his stomach.’ Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian He’s fighting a legal battle to keep the figures secret – yet the Work and Pensions…
Read MoreDylann Roof’s Racist Roots
White Supremacy and anti-Semitism Combine to Make a Mass Murderer The cold eyes of a racist murderer “The Scottsboro Boys” meet with their attorney Samuel Leibowitz This is a report from the Deep South Daily. It shows how the local white political establishment is still in bed with out and out racists, who now go…
Read MoreThey Really Can’t Help Themselves – Israeli Minister’s Wife Tweets Racist Joke about Obama
Of course in one sense Mozes is correct. Obama is weak. Not because he is Black but because he is a Zionist Democrat who goes along with Israeli racism. Whilst professing outrage at the mass murder in Charleston, he turns a blind eye and worse to Israel’s daily slaughter of Palestinian lives. Obama’s crime in…
Read MoreCuring Your Stutter Won’t Improve Israel’s Image!
It’s a mistake common to many reactionaries. It’s not what we do that is wrong, it’s just that we aren’t getting the message across. It was something we heard repeatedly during the Thatcher era. But if it was just a question of image, then the BBC’s pro-Israel propaganda during Operation Protective Edge should have done the…
Read MoreThe Most Moral Army the World Has Ever Seen Kills Another Child
IDF Ambushed, Murdered Unarmed 14-Year Old Palestinian Foraging for Wildflowers by Richard Silverstein on June 16, 2015 Yusef a-Shawamreh at Separation Barrier near where he was later murdered by IDF (Abed Al-Hashlamoun, EPA) In March 2014, the IDF murdered a 14 year-old boy , Yusuf a-Shawamreh, who crossed the Separation Barrier near Hebron to forage for…
Read MoreBRUTAL MURDER OF PALESTINIAN
Palestinian ‘left for 3 hours’ under Israeli jeep June 15, 2015 3:19 P.M. RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A Palestinian man who was killed by Israeli forces on Sunday in Kufr Malik village near Ramallah was left under an Israeli military jeep for three hours before he died, an eyewitness said. Nabil Abd al-Karim recounted the details…
Read MoreThe Death of My Father Rabbi Solomon Greenstein
The Death of a Father and a Generation of Working Class Jews Thursday, 1 December 2011 In the past few weeks I’ve posted fewer articles than normal. That is because my father died in the Royal Liverpool Hospital at approximately 1.00 a.m. on Saturday 21st November. I was rung up at about 12.30 a.m. by…
Read More‘The Most Moral Army in the World’ Savagely Beats Palestinian Man
You can imagine what the soldiers who carried out this beating will face when they meet their commander. A Police probe with the threat of years imprisonment? Don’t be silly, they’re not Palestinians. A blight on their military careers? Certainly not. That would be far too harsh. They will get a smack on the wrists. …
Read MoreMarried to a Palestinian – The Journey of an American Jewess Irish Keltz
48 Years Ago: Commemorating the ’67 War Iris Keltz on June 8, 2015 East Jerusalem, 1967 From left to right, Ibrahim Khatib, Iris and Faisal Khatib and friends. (Photographer unknown) The following includes excerpts from Iris Keltz’s forthcoming book. Unexpected Bride in the Promised Land: This week marks the 48th year since the ‘67 War. Israeli…
Read MoreSanitising the Merchants of Death
A glimpse into the world of Israeli terror. Israel is one of the largest weapons exporters in the world and unlike most others it can claim that its products have been tested in the real world – against Palestinians. The promotional video, with the snatches of beaches, Jerusalem and crowds – the subliminal message being…
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