Posts by Tony Greenstein

The Cost of Colonisation Threatens a Summer of Protest Last summer there was an unprecedented wave of social protests in Israel – named the tent protests – after the tents erected in protest at the high cost of accommodation.  In Israel, the traditional protection of a welfare state – albeit mainly for Jews –  was…

Follow my example – Don’t Finance the BBC – Don’t Pay the Licence Fee ‘Administrative Detention’  Won’t Be Renewed – Solitary Confinement to End Lord Patten, Chair of the BBC Trustees, was a patron of Medical Aid for Palestine.  However his charitable works didn’t extend to politics and removing BBC bias against the Palestinians Brighton…

Michael Farthing – willing to sell Sussex’s reputation for a bit more than his name Saif Islam Ghaddaffi –  bought the LSE for a few million Sussex University’s Press Release Sings the Praise of a Love of Money Lord Weidenfeld – Bought Sussex University’s Academic Reputation 4 a Song Jewish Chronicle Article Gives the Game…

A lovely story showing how the Arab city of Jaffa was stolen from its original inhabitants, who were driven out at the point of a gun.  As Naomi, a poet and fellow member of Brighton PSC says, the myth of the Jews being ‘driven into the sea’ has some basis in fact – it was…

Breakdown of US Consensus Published by the right-wing Council for the National Interest, the article below is nonetheless interesting and largely correct.  10 years ago the US media was uniformily pro-Israel and didn’t publish anything to the contrary.  Witness how they reviewed Joan Peter’s forgery ‘From Time Immemorial’ as a wonderful work of discovery, when…

Born in Auschwitz, living in Umm el Fahm A sad and moving story of how a holocaust survivor, born in Auschwitz (itself highly unusual since pregnant women were automatically selected for death on arrival), who came to Israel in 1948, eloped with a Palestinian man and began living in Umm-el-Fahm, the largest Arab town in…

 Im Tirtzu – a McCarthyist, Far-Right Israeli Group that Hates Dissent and is Funded by Hitler Supporter John Hagee Bar Ilan is Israel’s racist religious university in Tel Aviv – Arabs aren’t allowed to stay in ‘Jewish’ accommodation Im Tirtzu is a McCarthyist organisation and worse.  It has also been called a fascist organisation, something…

If you can’t find a terrorist then invent your own! IPS undercover agent arresting demonstrator in Bil’in, April 2005 (Oren Ziv / Activestills) The normal excuse for the attack by the Israeli military and police on demonstrators is that they threw stones first.  It is also the excuse for firing plastic bullets and CS gas…

Netanyahu’s Campaign to Kill Ahmad Sa’adat Palestinian leader Ahmad Sa’adat transferred to Ramle prison hospital from isolation in Ramon For all it’s talk of ‘Islamo-fascists’ and similar nonsense, the main enemy of the Zionist movement and the Israeli State has always been the Left within the Palestinian movement. That was why, in the 1980’s the…

An interesting story about Osama Bin Laden.  If Gareth Porter is correct, he had effectively been pensioned off when he was killed by US Special Forces. Al Quaeda itself, as Hilary Clinton has recently admitted, was created by the US when anti-communism was the order of the day.  But as is often the case with…