Posts by Tony Greenstein

The ghosts of the Nakba come back to Haunt Israel Amnon Neumann was a member of the elite Palmach shock troops. Consisting primarily of member of the ‘left-wing’ Kibbutzim, it was responsible primarily for the Nakba and expulsions and massacres. Although Neumann refused to talk about the massacres he gives more than enough detail to…

Education Ministry blasts Israeli Arab school for taking students to human rights march 30.12.53. Ha’aretz ‘The students carried signs against racism, house demolitions, etc., which violates the director general’s circular [i.e. ministry regulations],’ ministry tells school. By Talila Nesher Tags: Jewish education Tel Aviv The Education Ministry reprimanded the Arara High School and demanded clarifications…

The Honeymoon is Over How sad. All is doom and gloom at the annual Israeli Ambassadors get together. The toll of continuing Palestinian deaths (117 Palestinians last year, 1 Israeli), anti-democratic legislation galore, the banning of Nakba commemorations, attacks on NGO’s, allowing Jewish ‘community standards’ panels to reject Arabs who wish to live in ‘Jewish’…

More than 40 Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (MPLC) kidnapped since 2006 London – 2/1/2012 “UFree Network: Israeli occupation keeps until today 23 MPLCs in detention” Israeli occupation authorities continue to captive twenty three elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council for their political activities, and are subject to illegal administrative detention without charge.…

Liar, Liam Byrne MP, Shadow Work & Pensions Secretary ‘Forgets’ that New Labour Began the Attack on Claimants & the Disabled As the article in the Scottish Herald shows, at least 31 people have died waiting to see if they are ill enough to retain their benefits. Some of them have literally been killed by…

The Jordan Valley & Tubas – Annexed in All But Name When Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 Yigal Allon, the then Foreign Minister, produced the Allon Plan. It was based on the ‘security’ needs of Israel and the purpose, then as now, was to divest itself of the people whilst keeping…

Harry’s Place: Atzmon is Right – The Academic Boycott is ‘book burning’ In the course of an otherwise demented blog seeking to ‘prove’ that opponents of Atzmon are in fact the same as him (a favourite bourgeois philosophy which holds that extremes are the same and polar opposites are really their equals), one of the…

Zionists Call to prosecute anti-Israel Proms protesters With reports that the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra were that upset by the disruption to their concert at the Royal Albert Hall, that they are considering never visiting these shores again, some lame, tame Zionist lawyers, have resorted to calling for the law to be used against us. Bring…

Don’t Fund the BBC’s Bias Against Claimants and PalestineDon’t Pay the Licence Fee – Donate it to a Palestinian CharityAn excellent article by Mick Hall of Organised Outrage on how the BBC’s Complaints System is deliberately designed to frustrate complainants and prevent complaints succeeding, which is why a negligible proportion ever actually succeed. Palestine solidarity…

South African Politicians Never Hesitated to Compare Apartheid and Israel Here is a quote from the last white South African Prime Minister, F W de Klerk. For those with long memories, you might recall that when the former South African Prime Minister PW Botha stepped down, he was succeeded by the most right-wing candidate de…