Posts by Tony Greenstein
SWP Crisis Over Cover-up of Rape & Sexual Harassment Allegations against former National Secretary Martin Smith
trade-mark SWP badge Martin Smith, former National Secretary of SWP – at the centre of serious allegations of sexual violence Can the SWP survive its own failures of internal democracy? UPDATE Although I didn’t realise it until reading the transcript, the second woman who made a complaint of sexual harassment against Comrade ‘Delta’ has been…
Read MoreHolocaust Survivors – Used by Zionism for Propaganda and Kept in Poverty
Questions surround the treatment of Holocaust survivors in Israel, yet plenty is invested every day into displacing the Palestinian population. This image from an Israeli newspaper is titled, Leopold Rosen, “I don’t have enough money for food” Holocaust survivors protest budget shortage Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/ The Jerusalem Post Below is an article from YNet,…
Read MoreThe Israeli–Palestinian Conflict and the Zionist Solution
Arthur James Balfour – author of the Declaration which promised Palestine to the Zionist settlers regardless of the wishes of its indigenous population. He also authored the Aliens Act 1905 which barred entry to Jewish refugees from Russia There is nothing that is new in the analysis below but it brings together all the essentials…
Read MoreThe Israeli occupation is un-Jewish – Judith Butler
An article well worth reading from some who is called an ‘academic superstar’. A member of Jewish Voices for Peace and a supporter of BDS, Judith Butler argues from the basis that Zionism is inherently un-Jewish. I’m not sure I agree with her thesis, because Judaism historically has comprised many different, often antagonistic things from…
Read MoreStanley Jordan, four time Grammy Award nominee, cancels Israel gig
The momentum of the Cultural Boycott proceeds apace. Today I learnt something knew. I have often asked those who oppose a boycott of Israel’s ‘cultural’ activities whether they would have boycotted Wilhelm Furtwanger and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the 1930’s on the grounds that culture and politics don’t mix, despite the evidence we now…
Read MoreReview – The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist – Tony Lerman
Lerman’s book – an example of the Zionist fear of genuine debate Just before Yuletide I wrote the following review for Weekly Worker. What is remarkable, as I pointed out already in another post, how the Zionist and Jewish Establishment in this country runs a mile rather than trying to debate the issues that Tony…
Read MoreJakob Augstein – German Journalist and Critic of Israel is 9th in the Top Ten of the World’s Worst anti-Semites!
Top Ten Anti-Semites Controversy Wiesenthal Center Refuses Debate with Accused Author Jakob Augstein – the world’s ‘9 worst anti-Semite’ Well can you believe it? The US based Simon Wiesenthall Centre, not to be confused with its Austrian counterpart, publishes a ‘top-10’ of the world’s worst anti-Semites! And of course Arabs head the lists – the…
Read MoreHunting Benefit Scroungers
Tally-Ho as the Toffs and Tory Press Wage a Campaign of Hate Against the Disabled & Unemployed This blog has taken a break for a few weeks for a number of reasons, not least the need for me to do some writing unencumbered by the demands of a blog. Here is an excellent cartoon showing…
Read MoreJewish Chronicle Web Site is Dangerous
Edited by an Idiot – But was it worth hacking? Warning that the Jewish Chronicle site is dangerous for one’s computer and mental health I was sorry to hear that the Jewish Chronicle web site has apparently been hacked! I say apparently, because the following message appeared ‘Warning – visiting this web site may harm…
Read MoreJesus at the Checkpoint
Israel’s Irish Embassy’s Racist Thought for the Day Jesus at Israel’s Checkpoint Israel’s Irish Embassy’s Racist Cartoon As any half-wit with a couple of brain cells to spare would know, Christianity developed out of a struggle amongst the Jewish community in Palestine. The poor Jews and farmers gradually became Christianised and today their descendants…
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