Posts by Tony Greenstein

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…

Court demands secret files on US ‘black jails’ Abd al Rahim al Nashiri was detained at a Polish prison for six months Photo: GETTY Mihail Kogalniceanu air base. Romania. @ 44.36043300, 28.49149700 Black Site, Kabul, Afghanistan. Trevor Paglen: This site was brought to my attention by Afghan journalists and human rights activists in Kabul. The code…

The answer of course is that J Street and Peace Now aren’t progressive.  J-Street’s only claim to be progressive is that it isn’t as far to the Right as AIPAC – the main Zionist lobby group in the US.  As for Peace Now.  They barely exist in Israel and outside Israel function as one of…

The Treatment of Palestinian Children Says Everything about Zionist Racism   Israeli soldiers stand guard over Palestinian children arrested in the West Bank city of Hebron. Photograph: Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA     If there is one thing that demonstrates, beyond doubt or debate, that Israel is a racist society, then it is the shackling, abuse…

After having kept silent for fear of a racist backlash from the Israeli loving EDL and similar low-lifes, London shopkeepers, not least Muslim ones, have embraced a Boycott of Israeli  Dates.  Read a cross post from Inminds  below.  London Shopkeepers Embrace ‘Boycott Israeli Dates Campaign’     London Rhymes with Palestine12 July 2012Join the campaign…

BDS is Lawful – Settlements & Israel are Integral Yes well not quite.  What the opinion says is that boycotting Israeli settlements, which are a living example of the ban, in the 4th Geneva Convention, against an occupying power introducing its settlers into the territory it is occupying, is legal.  But because there is no…

Only Israel protects against Jesse Jackson, or another one of those black people   Birthright is the name of the programme to get Jews in the diaspora to settle in and identify with Israel.  As the name suggests, Israel belongs to the ‘Jewish people’ as of right, from birth. As the  Harvard student below describes,…

When I was young, if you were a revolutionary, the chances are that you would belong to one of a myriad of Trotskyist groups.  Reformists belonged to the Labour of Communist parties.  However those times have passed as Trotskyist groups imploded, moved to the right or became obsessed with their own marginal, sectarian differences. In…