Posts by Tony Greenstein

Settler leader Benny Katzover no longer pretends to support democracy When Rabbi Meir Kahane was elected to the Knesset for Kach, a Jewish Nazi party, Zionists who opposed him feigned shock when he said that Israel could be either a democratic state or a Jewish state. Yet all Kahane was doing was to be honest.…

I’m reminded of Marx’s saying when news reaches me of yet another assault of human rights in Israel. ‘A nation that oppresses another nation will not itself be free.’ In the cause of the virulent and racist nationalism that stalks Israel, all dissent from Israel’s small left is being silenced in the cause of ‘national…

B&Q Visited to Stop Them Selling Keter Plastics from Israel Today a group from the Brighton Palestine Solidarity Campaign visited Waitrose supermarket in Western Road to persuade its customers not to buy Israeli produce. After a lively demonstration inside the store, the group continued leafleting and demonstrating outside. Waitrose stocks assorted herbs, avocados, cucumbers, peppers,…

Mobility Allowance to be Abolished for the over 65’s How has the Government changed DLA? Q Can the over-65s no longer get the mob­ility component of Disability Living Allowance (DLA), or is it meant only for new claimants and those already getting the DLA higher rate mobility component? Can those in care still receive it?…

Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:51PM GMTInterview with Ralph Schoenman, In a US Republican debate candidates Romney and Gingrich vent disinformation to demean the people of Palestine as they vie for Israeli lobby favoritism. Press TV has interviewed Ralph Schoenman, Author of the Hidden History of Zionism from Berkeley about the entities that financially support Romney…

There doesn’t seem to be any depths to which ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ can sink. This includes arresting a patient, en route to a hospital for surgery. No doubt this is the ‘civilisation’ that Ehud Barak spoke of when he spoke of the ‘villa in the jungle’ Tony Greenstein IOF Arrest Patient…

This is just another example of the horrors of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. The repeated demolition of Palestinian homes, under Regulations inherited from the British. At the time, when they were used by the British against (occasionally) the Zionist terrorists, they were denounced as ‘Nazi laws’. This is a good description. Laying to…

The Beasts of Al Jalame – Electric Shocks Help the Children to Co-operate It prides itself on being ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ with the world’s ‘most moral army’ but like all armies of occupation there is little that they are not capable of when it comes to violating basic human rights. And…

Decision to Ban Holocaust Denial and anti-Semitism Bamboozles Harry’s Place Or perhaps I should call it Hypocrites Place. Following the decision of PSC to expel one holocaust denier and confirm a ban on holocaust denial or anti-Semitism, Hypocrites Place is finding it difficult to get its message right. On the one hand, there is resident…

Holocaust denier Frances Clarke-Lowes Expelled by Massive Majority The 30th Conference of PSC promised to be one of the more controversial PSC AGMs and it certainly lived up to it. Entering the conference, who was there giving out blue badges commemorating the massacre at Deir Yassin, but the eminence grise of the holocaust deniers, Paul…