Posts by Tony Greenstein

It is something that has always attracted me. How academics, those who deal in ideas, who explore the subtleties and contradictions of human life, can be so short-sighted and stupid. Whenever I’ve spoke to large audiences in opposition to Zionism and support for the Palestinians I’ve always tried, in the limited time usually available made…

Pity Jesus if he was to attempt to make the journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem today! It is noticeable that despite the repression of Palestinian Christians, Christian leaders criticism of Israel has been muted to being non-existent In the US Christians set up their own Christians United for Israel, which considers Palestinian Christians as some…

Another Blow to Veolia Palestine Solidarity Campaign (UK)PRESS Release: London,UK 23 December 2011 Veolia Takes Severe Blow As It Fails To Win 485 Million Pound Contract In West London Human rights campaigners are celebrating after the West London Waste Authority (‘WLWA’) excluded French multinational Veolia from a £485 million contract covering 1.4 million inhabitants of…

Tory MP Adrian Burley Dresses Up as Nazi What has not been revealed in most of the popular coverage is that Burley was a prominent member of Conservative Friends of Israel. Of course there is nothing much amiss here. As you may be aware, Tory MP Aidan Burley, who Cameron was forced to sack from…

So Rare is a Palestinian Acquittal that the Israeli Press Felt Obliged to Report It! This blog is know for its attempts to bend over backwards to be fair to Zionism and Israel. It is extremely unfortunate that we can find so little that is good to say about it. But never let it be…

How the ‘Democracy’ in the West is Skin Deep We often hear lazy reference to the ‘democracies’ in the West. It is true that there are certain long-standing democratic rights that have been won against the ruling classes, but democratic freedoms, especially in the United States, has always been skin deep. As the reports below…

Please join co-chairs Cornel West, Rosemary Ruether and Archbishop Desmond Tutu signing this petition. Ken Starr, former prosecutor of Bill Clinton, and currently President of Baylor University, to dismiss dissident Jewish voice Dr. Marc Ellis. For more than three decades the prophetic voice of Marc Ellis has influenced generations of academics and activists. His dissident…

Even Nazi Germany Did Not Achieve This Rate of Conviction Until Special Peoples Courts Were Set Up Under Ronald Freiser What kind of state achieves a 99.7% conviction rate in its Military Courts? Even Hitler only managed 90.3% in the Saaar plebicite, although to be fair, in 1938 with the Anchluss in Austria he improved…

This is an interesting article in Ha’aretz, all that is left of Israel’s liberal press, after Conrad Black took over the Jerusalem Post over 20 years ago and turned it into another right-wing nut job. It is interesting not least because of the comparison made with Apartheid in South Africa, however inadequately, and the belief…

Jennifer Rubin is the Washington Post’s conservative columnist. She is also an out and out racist who repeats every single racial insult that comes into her head when it comes to Arabs and Palestinians in particular. You wouldn’t get scum like this focussing on Israeli rabbis and how Jewish blood is more precious than that…