Posts by Tony Greenstein

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…

Palestinians take to the streets of the West Bank against neoliberalism and economic dependency agreements with Israel Related Story: “Phantom Control”: Israel’s Secret Service and the Occupation Watch full multipart The Real News in the Middle East The protests erupting in the West Bank against former World Bank Executive and unelected Palestinian ‘Prime Minister’ Salam…

Despite Police Harassment Almost Total Public Opposition to the Ethnic Cleansing Shop Local Argus newspaper covers the protest – and gets it wrong as per usual! Sodastream has turned into Ecostream – a Greening of Ethnic Cleansing Not a customer in sight The shop manager resorts to offering free drinks to entice custom Over the…

  Another attack on a non-Jewish religious organisation, this time a Christian monastry.  Usually it is mosques which are the target for vandalism and destruction, but in the eyes of Jewish zealots from the West Bank settlements and the religious Orthodox, the original evil was Christian. As normal the Israeli police will investigate and as normal…