Posts by Tony Greenstein
Left Unity Conference
A banner headline which didn’t match the strap lines Another Missed Opportunity as feminists and reformists link-up Left Unity is the brainchild and founding father, the distinguished socialist film maker Ken Loach who has produced more radical and socialist films that I can remember. Ken Loach – Left Unity’s guiding light According to its own…
Read MoreVeteran Israeli Peacenick Clings to Zionist Delusions
Does Uri Avnery know so little about Israel? Below is a reply by British journalist Jonathan Cook, who lives in Nazareth to the nonsense spouted by Uri Avnery. Avnery, of Gush Shalom, has a record of opposing the occupation and repression of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. He risked jail when it was a…
Read MoreThe Question of Dual Loyalities
Allegiance to Israel Threatens Safety of Jews in America General Ulysses Grant who issued an order expelling the Jews from Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee, the most anti-Semitic official order in American history because of Jewish clothing manufacturers’ decision to move southern cotton northwar It is a long-standing canard of anti-Semites that Jews are not members…
Read MoreSussex Friends of Israel leader Simon Cobbs Throws a Tantrum
Israel Zionist Rabbis fine woman $140 a day for not mutilating a child.
There is a debate among many Jews as to whether they should circumcise a male child, at 8 days, or not. There are views either way though my own view is that it is a form of genital mutilation. circumcision ceremony Of the three sons I had, he first was circumcised, albeit by a…
Read MoreMr Gradgrind and Scrooge Return with a Vengeance
Blaming the poor for poverty Do you remember Ian Duncan Smith and hi The idiot who the Tories put in charge of poor bashing IDS in the days when he was ‘concerned’ about poverty s Centre for Social Justice? After Tory MPs passed a vote of no confidence in him and he was forced into resigning…
Read MoreA million Jews have left Israel
The Jewish State Loses its Attraction for Jews It is somewhat ironic that Israel – founded as a ‘Jewish; state –has more Jews leaving it than entering it, despite it being a social taboo. Amos Elon – author of ‘ Founders & Sons’ emigrated to Tuscany, Italy Why is this so? Because even most Israelis…
Read MoreFrance’s Zionist Lobby Suffers Severe Blow
And just in, a devastating defeat for the anti-boycott movement in France. French supermarket protestors French Supreme Court of Cassation Acquits BDS Director of Incitement Charges From Electronic Intifada The case dates back to a July 2009 when a protest in a Carrefour supermarket in Évry, a suburb of Paris, led to Director Olivi Zemor,…
Read MorePicket of Brighton’s Sodastream Shop Takes Zionists By Surprise
A Xmas Surprise for Sodastream For the past year, Palestine Solidarity Campaign have been mounting a regular weekly picket, accompanied by ‘pop’ pickets outside the Sodastream shop in Brighton Cobb’s cry for help went unheeded – how touching Not a shopper in sight A group of far-Right Zionists, including EDL supporter Simon Cobbs, have…
Read MoreIn rare public display, Iranian Jews rally in support of nation’s nuclear program
Below is an article from Ha’aretz, Israel’s only liberal daily, on their reaction to Israel’s threats and attempts to derail the negotiations with the Iranian regime. Israel, of course, doesn’t like negotiations, especially those that might succeed! Of course before the State of Israel there were major Arab Jewish communities in the Middle East, including…
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