Posts by Tony Greenstein
How Do We Break Workfare – National Conference held on May 26
workshop ONE OF THE WORKSHOPS Andy Richards – Chair of Brighton & Hove LG UNISON Pip speaking from BBC The Queens and Buckingham Palace Also Use Workfare June 3, 2012 Cross post from Brighton Benefits Campaign On Saturday 26 May, nearly fifty anti-workfare activists met up in Brighton for a national…
Read MoreThe Night of Pogroms Against African Asylum Seekers
Ellie Yishai’s Zionist-Religious War on African Asylum Seekers Interior Racist Interior Minister Eli Yishai Racism towards asylum seekers is not new to Israel. What is different is that overt racism and hostility is part of the founding ideology of the State and it is the State which is leading the attack against African asylum seekers.…
Read MoreEDL Flee Brighton With Their Tails Between Their Legs
Another Victory for anti-fascism and a diverse tolerant Brighton After the debacle of the so-called March for England, whose march was shortened by 2/3, the EDL and Casuals threatened to come back to Brighton on June 2nd for a ‘rematch’. They were even told not to take their colours! They fed us a list of…
Read MoreThe Tragedy of Gilad Atzmon
Atzmon and all that Jazz Last night Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi of Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods and I went to the film premier of Gilad and all that jazz at the Soho Hotel cinema. About 18 months we were both interviewed for the film and we took a decision that it would be churlish to boycott…
Read MoreThe Globe Brings the West Bank to London to Allow the Merchant of Venice to Go Ahead
UPDATE Excellent and impartial review of how the security last night affected the whole performance. http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/pkirwan/entry/the_merchant_of_1_2_3_4_5/ Only Airport Security and Dozens of Security Goons & Police Allows Habima’s Performance to Go Ahead Left – Protest outside as seen from window of the Globe Protesor Add caption Protestor with Mouth Taped – left As Bob…
Read MoreAtzmon’s Rottweiller, Sarah Gillespie, Attacks Omar Barghouti and Opposes the Boycott and Disruption of Habimah
A Question to the Palestinian Right – Where Does Your Loyalty Lie? With a Gilad Atzmon or with the Supporters of BDS? Atzmon and his poisonous friend Sarah Gillespie Blowing his own trumpet Omar Barghouti Atzmon Believes They Should Perform Unmolested – Unlike the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Gillespies rang against Omar Barghouti Zionist poster…
Read MoreCommunity Security Trust Defends Lieberman and His Fascist Supporters
CST’s Friends in Gather in Brighton Hoffman Looks on Approvingly as Demonstrator is Called a ‘Paki’ I would like to say that the Zionist Security Trust (CST) is an anti-racist organisation or that it at least purports to be such. But that would be wrong. The CST makes no such claim. ‘CST believes that the…
Read MorePicketing Israels Fascist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Hendon Last Night
In the Belly of the Beast with Mad, Brainwashed, Zionist Crazies Last night I heeded the call put out in the previous 24 hours to join the picket of Israel’s Fascist Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman at the Pillar Hotel in Hendon. I got there about 6.30 to find there was a largeish Zionist counter-demonstration of…
Read MoreThey Use to Call it a Pogrom
Yizhar – A Judeo-Nazi settlement overlooking Nablus and home to the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva The shocking video footage below, taken by Btselem, shows Israeli settlers attacking a Palestinian village and being protected by Israeli soldiers. One person is shown to have been wounded in the head, but of course there are no arrests of…
Read MoreThe ‘Only Democracy in the Middle East’ Teargases Joint Israeli-Iranian Demonstration
Any joint anti-war/anti-occupation activities and demonstrations in Israel are to be welcomed. Just as the ANC welcomed the participation of White South Africans in the Anti-Apartheid struggle. However one should be under no illusions that those taking part will be a small fragment of Israeli-Jewish society. That is not to say that Israeli Jews are…
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