Posts by Tony Greenstein

Although anti-Semites like the Wandering Fool, aka Gilad Atzmon, believe Israel is a Jewish plot, in fact the most supportive and dedicated lobby in support of Israel is the 30m+ Christians United for Israel group of Pastor John Hagee, a supporter of Hitler no less!Indeed modern political Zionism owes its origins not to Jewish support…

Israel currently holds approximately 300 Palestinians without charge or trial — a practice known as administrative detention. The human rights organization Amnesty International issued an urgent appeal today regarding the renewed administrative detention order against Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh. Last week I blogged that Israel had issued its third consecutive order to detain Qatamesh without…

Free Hunger Striker – Hana Shalabit As the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ Israel demonstrates its democratic credentials through locking up hundreds of prisoners in Administrative Detention i.e. without trial. Not that the trials are anything but a foregone conclusion but at least they have to present some evidence. In the case of those…

Jenny Tonge ‘will very quickly come to see the virtue of being at a distance from a rapidly sinking political party and its dead in the water leader.’Now is the time when all good men and women are called to come to the rescue of an endangered species, Jonathan Hoffman. Not only was he attacked…

Jenny Tonge – a True Friend of Palestine Principle is a word that is rarely heard these days in the Lib Dems. The most that Simon Hughes can manage is an envelope on which he makes political calculations as to what will most benefit a party headed for extinction. But then Hughes was the willing…

Say No to Workfare – Trade Union Rates of Pay for all Workers The scandal whereby the government has forced people on their Work Experience programme to take UNPAID jobs at companies like Tescos, Sainsbury, McDonalds, Burger King etc. is a scandal. Work for your dole was something imported from America, the Wisconsin Programme. Its…

What Kind of Communists Support Hereditary Rulers in North Korea and the Rights of holocaust deniers in PSC? Unlike the Zionists I won’t accuse Harpal Brar, or his dead from the neck upwards daughter Joti, of supporting holocaust denial. Clearly they don’t. The fact that she has now posted on the holocaust denying support site…

The Wandering Fool Tries His Hand in the USA Gilad Atzmon, not content with his destruction and divisiveness in Europe, hopes to create similar divisions between Jewish and non Jewish anti-Zionists and supporters of the Palestinians in the United States. Perhaps having seen his supporters comprehensively defeated in Britain’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign conference in January,…

Mira Vogel and Green Engage are Decisively Rejected Stop Press – Despite all the frenetic activity on the Internet, when push came to shove ‘Green Engage’ the Zionist lobby within the Green Party, failed to even try to defend the JNF. And who can blame them? How do you justify an organisation that refuses to…

A4E Mired in Corruption UNISON 4 found to have been unfairly dismissed by Employment Tribunal It must be the ultimate dream of capitalists. You get free workers. After all, as Tesco’s is fond of saying ‘every little bit helps’ But people have finally begun to rebel over the stigmatisation and demonisation of people on the…