Posts by Tony Greenstein

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…

  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…

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…

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…

 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…

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…

The Conviction of Al-Megrahi Proves How Rotten the British Justice System Is It was always obvious that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was an innocent victim, a scapegoat, for the bombing of the Lockerbie Pan-Am flight 103.  As Peter Meyer writes in ‘The Lockerbie Bombing, and the U.S.S. Vincennes: Dr Jim Swire with the book that…

Habima is Actively Complicit in the Occupation of the West Bank Odelia Friedman, Benny Tzarfati, Nicholas Hytner, Ilan Ronen, Jim Betri and Julia Smith (the British Council) – not an Arab in sight because this is an Israeli Jewish theatre group One of the more frequent lies perpetrated by those who support Apartheid is that…

It’s not often that I feel a surge of patriotic pride!  In fact truth to tell, I’ve never done so before.  It’s something to do with that phrase in the Communist Manifesto about workers of the world uniting and have nothing to lose except their chains.  Or in Dr Samuel Johnson’s immortal phrase, ‘patriotism is…