Posts by Tony Greenstein

Or Why It’s Not a Good Idea to Accept Your Ideas from Zionists Last week Ruth Tenne, an Israeli anti-Zionist sent a letter to the Weekly Worker, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, deploring our ‘witch-hunt’ against holocaust deniers in Palestine Solidarity Campaign. This followed on from our success at the PSC AGM…

For the past 4 years or so there have been continuous stories of how Israel is going to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities. My own judgement has always been that the threat has been inflated out of all proportion. Certainly what is the case is that the United States didn’t, whilst it had its hands…

It Takes the Victims of Apartheid to Recognise Apartheid As the architect of Apartheid, Dr Henry Verwoerd said: “The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs lived there for a 1000 years. In this I agree with them. Israel like South Africa is an apartheid- state.” Rand Daily Mail, 23.11.61. It is therefore…

Palestinians take the Irish Road to Freedom The parallels between the Partition of Ireland in 1920 and Palestine are many. The establishment of Ulster, a Protestant State for a Protestant People, as Lord Brookborough, later Unionist Prime Minister remarked, and the establishment of the Palestine Mandate are remarkable, not least because it goes so often…

On July 2nd last year, I was invited by Brighton Labour History Workshop to do a talk on the fight against fascism in Brighton and on the South Coast. The invitation was extended to me because I have been prominent in the campaign against the fascists from the mid-1970’s and have remained active ever since.The…

The Angry Arab Interviewed by Asa Winstanley A very interesting interview with the Angry Arab by Asa Winstanley, whose articles on the Zionist Community Security Trust I have already covered. I share his impatience at the feeble response of Palestinians who have no answer to the question ‘does Israel have the right to exist.’ The…

The Law that Outlawed Free Speech –even for Israeli Jews It is difficult, amongst all the reactionary legislation that the Knesset now passes under its far-right settler government, to decide which is the worst. What is certain is that even within Israel, the law that has had the most reaction to it has been the…

A Useful Guide to Benefit Claimants when up against ATOS Doctors How to deal with Benefits medical examinations Doctors were hanged at Nuremburg for following Nazi party racial theories and participating in medical experiments. Unfortunately Dr Mengele, the most notorious of them all, escaped the noose. I’m not suggesting that ATOS doctors deserve to be…

How strange it is with all the recent talk of Housing Benefit cutbacks and benefit caps that no one has put their finger on the real problem. High rents as a result of a boom based on property price inflation which stoked a demand for imports that was unmatched by production of wealth. When I…

Dietrich College News2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing AwardsProse: High SchoolFirst Place (Tie) One of the more remarkable signs of the cracks and crisis in the Zionist movement is the growing number of Jewish youngsters prepared to say ‘no’ to the blandishments of Zionism. Who refuse to accept the kith and kin argument that you…