Posts by Tony Greenstein
Attacking NGOs Who Tell the Truth
One of the myths of Israel’s right is that the Supreme Court is a liberal Arabist institution – whereas it has presided over waves of confiscations and expulsions Israel – the transition from ‘democracy’ to dictatorship / Noone should be surprised that ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ is fast jetissoning even the pretensions…
Read MorePalestinian American Boy Beaten Up by Israeli Police Testifies at Congressional Meeting
Abukhdeir is the cousin of Muhammad Abu Khudair, who was burnt alive by Israeli settlers last year in Jerusalem. They poured petroleum down his throat and set him alight in an action whose barbarity recalls that of Isis and the Jordanian pilot. So far Israel seems to have done nothing about his murderers, who will…
Read MoreUN Special Representative Puts Israel on List of Serious Violators of Children’s Rights – Ban Ki-moon takes them off
UN’s Ban Ki-moon caves in, takes Israel off list of serious child abusers The cowardice of the UN General Secretary, when his own officials place Israel on a list of child abusers, is breathtaking. A concerted e-mail bombardment of the UN would be a start. No doubt Israel and the USA put Banki Moon under…
Read MoreSoldiers Expel Palestinians from Pool to Enable Settlers to Bathe Undisturbed
The Face of Apartheid in the West Bank One of Israel’s proud boasts has been that there are no signs saying ‘Jews only’ or ‘Arabs only’. As we saw with the recent proposal to segregate Palestinians on buses into the West Bank, there is an inexorable movement to extend the Apartheid division of the West…
Read MoreSlaughter in Palmyra as Israel Cements Alliance with ISIS
Robert Fisk is the best Middle East correspondent by far. He lives in Lebanon and writes for The Independent. He was one of the few journalists not to be ‘embedded’ with US security forces in Iraq. butchered by Isis Here he is reporting from a town near to Palymyra where the Saudi sponsored IS (or…
Read MoreCommunity Policing – Texas Style
Half Israeli Jewish Teens Oppose Equal Rights for Arab Israelis
As Israeli society moves to the Right, so Israeli Jewish teenagers assimilate the values of a ‘Jewish’ state. There are only 5 mixed Jewish-Arab high schools in Israel and they are private. Jews and Arabs live in different towns and neighbourhoods. Jews serve in the army of occupation in the West Bank and of course…
Read MoreHotoveli – Israel’s new Acting Foreign Minister and Supporter of Racial Hygiene
Tzipi Hotoveli – Israel’s new religious Zionist Deputy Foreign Minister Racial hygiene under another name – for Hotoveli it is another holocaust Israeli Government Attacks the Messenger It was of course utterly predictable. How does the Acting Foreign Minister, the religious nutcase Tzipi Hotovely, defend the most moral occupation the world has ever seen? By…
Read MoreBDS – The Fear Behind the Bluster
In recent weeks, Netanyahu has stepped up the war against Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). There was already a piece of legislation that made it a civil offence, which the Israeli Supreme Court ruled was compatible with free speech. BDS is a strategic threat Debate in Brighton’s local Argus between Tony Greenstein and the Tory…
Read MoreTantura – the Massacre that the Zionists tried to Cover Up
An excellent article by Jonathan Cook, a British journalist who lives in Nazareth. He was blacklisted by the Guardian. Tantura was the scene of one of the worst massacres of the Nakba and there has been a concerted effort to cover it up. The University of Haifa was complicit in the brow-beating of Teddy Katz,…
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