Posts by Tony Greenstein

Babi Yar – the ravine where over 30,000 Jews were murdered   Babi Yar the handiwork of Israel’s Phalangist allies   Sabra & Chatilla – A Massacre from the Annals of Nazi and Fascist Barbarity To those who say that at least Israel hasn’t opened up extermination camps for the Palestinians one must agree.  It…

Facts that you don’t hear from the Zionist lobby Many people are probably not aware of it, but Iran has the largest Jewish population (outside Israel) in the Middle East.  Some 25,000.  There are 25 synagogues in Tehran itself.  It’s strange really, when you listen to rancid demagogues like Benjamin Netanyahu, who compare the leader…

When the Zionist Underground Planted Bombs Outside Baghdad’s Jewish Cafés and Synagogues Yacoub Youssef, an Iraqi Jew, holds his prayer book in his house in Baghdad’s Tanaouine neighborhood, 19 April 2003 Iraqi Jewry in Basra Nuri e-Said Nuri e-Said – Iraq’s pro-British dictator An article in Electronic Intifada by Ali Abunimah on what happened in…

Brighton Greens Propose the Destruction of Toad’s Hole Valley I remember a hustings held at the Friends Centre in Brighton’s Ship Street in 2005.  I stood as a candidate for the Alliance for Green Socialism.  Although I obtained a handful of votes others, such as the Sussex University student newspaper, judged that at the hustings,…

Below is an open letter to Haifa University’s academic expert on the holocaust of the Roma.  Haifa University is bestowing an honorary doctorate on the racist anti-Roma Canadian Minister of Citizenship, Jason Kenney.  Haifa University itself has a long record of racism, not least its recent decision to ban the commemoration of the Nakba –…

 An Oireachtas Committee is to write to the Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamonn Gilmore, calling for a ban on imports from illegal Israeli settlements This is a great victory for all of us struggling to hold Israel accountable for its egregious and ongoing violations of Palestinian rights and international law. We sincerely hope…

No more tax deductables for funding settlements in occupied territory Israeli settlements under construction near Jerusalem, occupied West Bank  (Issam Rimawi / APA images)  Following advocacy-work and pressure from Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) and the Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees (NUMGE), the Norwegian Ministry of Finance today announced their decision to exclude the Norwegian organisation…

Butchered by Israel’s Fascist Friends The Palestinians have known many tragedies.  When I went to Lebanon in 1979, at the invitation of the PLO, it was via Syria because the Lebanese Embassy in London, controlled by the Phalangists, refused to issue a visa. The Phalange, named after the Spanish fascist Falange, were founded by Pierre…

A lively protest outside Ecostream Sodastream/Ecostream –  On the Rocks I have been getting a steady drip of comments from a couple of mentally unhinged Zionists.  They seem to be suffering from a psychosis best summed up as ‘haunted by Ahava.’ The EDL turned out to ‘defend’ Ahava Ahava, some readers might recall, was the…