Posts by Tony Greenstein

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…

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,…