Posts by Tony Greenstein

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…

The Oppression of Women Symbolises an Aborted Arab Revolution Once upon a time there was a radical Arab nationalism, best represented by Egyptian President Gamel Abdel Nasser, who led an army coup against the British imposed King Farouk.  In 1956 Nasser nationalised the Suez canal, which had been owned by the Suez Canal company, in…

Chief Rabbi and Board Accuse the CoE of ‘anti-Semitism’ for supporting Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme EAPPI    I have a confession to make.   Before last week I hadn’t even heard of EAPPI – The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) .  After reading the hysterical article in the Jewish Chronicle (12th July) ‘Church endorses…

Protest for social justice, Tel Aviv, Israel  Israel is not only the most represssive state that claims to be a western democracy, it is one of the world’s most unequal societies.  It is the poor Israeli Jews who effectively pay for the Occupation of the West Bank and the military expenditure.  In turn they are…