Posts by Tony Greenstein

Curfew Imposed on Zochrot Offices in the Heart of Tel Aviv Palestinian employees at the Customs Department, Haifa // Dr. Johnny Mansour As in every year on Independence Day eve, Zochrot planned a street activity to commemorate and raise public awareness of the Nakba. After a discussion held in our offices, some 15 activists intended…

Co-operative Group Moves to End Trade Links with Those Who Trade With the Settlements What was it that Norman Finkelstein said in that notorious interview?  That BDS is a ‘cult’.  Well it’s not so much of a cult that Britain’s fifth largest supermarket group has moved to sever links with Israeli companies that source from…

A Not Too Happy Zionist Ends Up Swearing!   The Theatre Management Warn the Audience of What’s to Come The Culture of the Oppressor Put Under the Spotlight For a second time, the Jerusalem Quartet were part of the line-up at the Brighton Festival.  Following on from our successful disruption of their concert at London’s…

Israeli military direct pepper spray into demonstrators’ faces www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4C8_dyIiHw<<<  One can see and hear both the bravery of young Palestinian women, the brutality of the Israeli military and the complicity of G4S, a company which profits in terror and exploitation.  G4S are, of course, a company which is responsible for many abuses against asylum seekers…

Any comment is superflous.  This article in itself is the answer to those, like Norman Finkelstein, who still try to deceive the movement that a 2 State Solution is possible. Israeli civilisation – Israeli Military do their duty with flattened tents in the background The article is published on the Counterpunch site which contains many…

 What greater contrast can there be than over one thousand Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike against the brutal conditions in Israeli jails, imprisonment without trial and the occupation ‘justice’ which sees one law for the settler and another for the occupied, than the lack of coverage in the Western media.  The Press in the West,…

One should not of course be too surprised by the cowardly refusal of the Methodist Church to stand up and be counted where Palestinian repression is concerned.  In the 1930’s, the German Church, without exception, failed to oppose Hitler’s anti-Semitism as they were signed up to his wars of aggression.  This was true not only…

‘Well There’s a First Time For Everything, Bob!’ Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s Response to Bob Simon’s observation that he has never experienced an attempt at censorship by another state before Not for nothing is Israel known as ‘the only democracy in the Middle East.’  The genocidal leaders of American fundamentalist Christians – Pastor John Hagee,…

‘I’d have no problem standing with the EDL… In fact, I’m surprised there aren’t more Brits demonstrating against Islamofascists Only a couple of weeks after the Jewish Chronicle was found to have been allowing the BNP’s candidate for the London Mayoralty to have a blog on its site,  the Jewish Chronicle has a new hate…

Largest Post-War Anti-Fascist Mobilisation in Brighton as Hundreds Turn Out For the past 3 years, an outfit called March for England has marched from Brighton Station down to the Old Steine. The first year they lodged at the King & Queen Pub opposite Grand Parade and last year they drank before setting off at the…