Posts by Tony Greenstein
Southampton University – Legal Action Expected Next Week
After the decision of Southampton University’s Administration to ban a conference on Israel and International Law, admittedly a subject which Israel’s leaders are particularly sensitive to, legal action in the form of a judicial review is expected next week. However, as someone who has mounted a (successful) judicial review in the past, people have to…
Read MoreMark Gardner of the Zionist ‘charity’ – the Communist Security Trust & the Southampton International Law Conference
CST’s Mark Gardner Dishonestly Quotes Me to Support the Banning of Southampton International Law Conference My attention has been drawn by Gert and Brian Robinson to the use by Mark Gardner of the Zionist ‘charity’ the Communist Security Trust of certain comments I made regarding Oren ben-Dor, the Southampton University lecturer who has helped organise…
Read MoreSouthampton University Bows to Zionist & Tory Pressure and Cancels Conference on Israel & International Law
The decision by Southampton University to cancel a conference on Israel and International Law, of all subjects, is an act of sheer cowardice. Universities have a duty, not only legally but morally, to uphold academic freedom, the cut and thrust of debate, the right to present alternative ideas to those of the mainstream. A Police…
Read More300 PALESTINIAN CHILDREN CAGED IN G4S SECURED, HP POWERED ISRAELI DUNGEONS
FREE THE CHILDREN DATE: Thursday 2nd April 2015, 3-5pm LOCATION: G4S HQ, 105 Victoria Street, London (near Victoria Station) FACEBOOK EVENT: Last year Israel abducted 1266 Palestinian children – that’s one child taken from their parents every 7 hours! During interrogation 75% of Palestinian children detained by Israel are physically tortured. 40% of the 600…
Read MoreMeet the Knesset Members from the Joint List
Netanyahu’s Fear Mongering Attack on Palestinians – Rooted in Zionism Palestinian citizens of Israel – and their political parties – agreed on a most basic principle: there should be equality under law and in practice between them and Israeli-Jews. Everything else, the peace process, the two state solution, could fall to the side. Netanyahu’s demographic…
Read MoreJVP – Standing in the Jewish Tradition of Opposition to ALL Racism
The continued success of Jewish Voices for Peace in the United States gives the lie to those who argue that it is a ‘Jewish Lobby’ or the Number of Jewish Voters who are responsible for US support of Israel and Zionism. Republicans and Christian Zionists don’t support Israel because they like Jews but because it…
Read MoreThe Blog that Predicted the Victory of Netanyahu
Likud’s Triumph Emphasises the Irrelevance of Labour Zionism When all the pundits predicted that Netanyahu and the Right would be defeated in the Israeli General Election, this blog stood alone in predicting that the Zionist Right would triumph once again. Jews voting for the Joint Jewish-Arab List How could one disagree? In a blog post…
Read MoreSouthampton University Conference on Israel and International Law: The Zionist’s Try to Ban it
The Zionist Lobby is a Threat to Freedom of Speech Remember all the hypocritical cant about freedom of speech in the wake of the murder of journalists at Charlie Hebdo? About how terrorism would not be allowed to silence the power of the pen? Forget it. Under the guise of ‘anti-terrorism’ the Zionist lobby is…
Read MoreThe Right & Far Right Will Almost Certainly Win the Israeli Elections
The Last Fling of Left Zionism Herzog and Netanyahu – Spot the Difference Moshe Kalon of Kulanu – A Likud offshoot The late Shulamit Aloni who founded Meretz and drifted away from Zionism The last time that the Israeli Labour Party (flying under the Zionist Union flag today in alliance with Tsipi Livni’s Hatnuah) won…
Read MoreArgentina: The Mystery Surrounding the death of Alberto Nisman’s
Was Nisman’s Case Against Iran Junk? In 1994 a bomb exploded at the Jewish community centre of Amia, killing 85 people. Immediately the finger was pointed at Iran, not least by Israel. Whatever the truth of this accusation, we should bear in mind that when Argentinia’s neo-Nazi Junta (1976-83) tortured and murdered up to 3,000…
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