Posts by Tony Greenstein

‘Work Makes you Free’ – the motivating idea behind the Work Capability Assessments and equally as lethal T The Attack on the Disabled by Atos – Sponsor of the Paraolympics by Fiona Goffe on Wednesday, 13 June 2012  – cross post Fiona Goffe There is a campaign of hate and bullying against the most vulnerable…

Comment is Free – but Only When We Agree! How the anti-Semitic Gilad Atzmon sees Machover – not very different from Jonathan Freedland This is a guest post by Brian Robinson.  It concerns a recent act of censorship by the Guardian’s Comment is Free.  Ostensibly aimed at a comment Brian made on CIF in response…

 Gilad Ratzmon and Paul Eisen Abandon Ship hat tip to Mark Elf The Death Throes of DeLiberation – the anti-Semitic Pro-Palestine site When Palestine Solidarity Campaign expelled Frances Clarke-Lowes for being a proud ‘holocaust denier’ a new site DeLiberation arose, like a phoenix from the ashes. All the old Atzmonites were there – Eisen, Roy…

I only returned last night from a holiday with my kids to Europe.  What greeted me was the Olympic mania with Union Jacks (the Butcher’s Apron) everywhere.   We may be suffering cuts, old peoples’ homes closing, increased unemployment and poverty, but at least we have the bread and circuses that the Olympics and the Tories…

As Israel Breaks the Prisoner Agreement it is clear that      There is No ‘Partner for Peace’ Despite Western hypocritical attacks on Political Islam, the true enemies of Zionism and the Israeli state have always been secular and radical Palestinian and Arab nationalism. The Muslim Brotherhood have often provided a cover for imperialism, as in Egypt.…

The West’s and Israel’s Iraqi Recipe for Syria – Sectarian Conflict and Confessionalism Syrian Christian Church – Threatened by Political Islam and Salafism An excellent interview with Sami Ramdani, the exiled Iraqi lecturer at London University on how the West has subverted the Syrian revolution. Despite all the rhetoric about Al Quaeda, the United States…

Progress Was Back to the Past Counterpunch – A Mockery of his Communist father Claude Cockburn Cockburn – His radicalism deserted him I promised not to write any blogs on my vacation.  Kids and all that plus lack of adequate facilities.  This is a blog without graphics as the Gottenberg youth hostel’s computers have only…

The Tragedy of Moshe Silman Should Not Blind Us as to the Culpability of Zionism Moshe Silman It is more than a terrible tragedy, that a 57 year old son of holocaust survivors died after setting himself on fire in protest at the way the Israeli state treated him.  There are lessons as well as…

The racist cartoon heading the site of fellow racist Rabbi Fischer.  Arabs are barbarians who hide behind their babies whereas Israeli soldiers defend them (whilst shackling Palestinian kids). trying to find the mike! Ross Benjamin’s life mission is to prevent others speaking their minds.  It is ‘unlawful’ to use state resources to host an academic’s…

MK Michael Ben-Ari tearing pages from the New Testament (photo: Itamar Ben-Gvir) An interesting little story.  Whilst a lunatic American pastor insists on burning the Quoran, his counterpart in Israel – far-right religious party MK Michael Ben Ari, demonstrates the hatred of the religious Jews and Talmud for Christians. Here we have one particular Neanderthal…