Posts by Tony Greenstein

Two prisoner stories and the olive harvest Western media try to make Palestinian political prisoners mere numbers while personalizing one Israeli soldier. So let me just give you the names and brief story of two of those released Palestinian political prisoners. Chris Bandak, a Palestinian Christian from Bethlehem was just 21 when he was abducted…

Sa’adat in Hospital, continuing Strike Ahmad Sa’adat, imprisoned Palestinian national leader, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, remained on hunger strike on October 19, 2011 even as he was hospitalized, and sent congratulations to the prisoners liberated as part of the prisoner swap agreement. Due to the hunger strikers’…

RELEASE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS The racist Israeli media is jubilant. With the exception of ultra-hardline Zionists who complain that any Palestinians were freed in exchange for Shalit, Zionist ideologues are today celebrating the “homecoming” of “our child” “Gilad.” Hamas fighters shocked the Zionists in 2006 with their raid on Israeli Defense Forces near the Kerem…

Two Days after Prisoner Exchange Deal is Announced, Palestinian Prisoners Remain Steadfast in their Hunger Strike Ramallah, 13 October 2011 — As the world welcomed the conclusion of an extensive prisoner exchange deal between Israeli and Hamas authorities on 11 October, Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli prisons resolutely entered their third week of a…

Photos Taken by Brian Robinson The Leafletters Almost Outnumbered the Audience Last week I publicised the leafleting/picket of Atzmon’s book launch in London. It was supposed to be a surprise but I didn’t realise! In the event it was probably a wise decision. Unfortunately, and much to my regret, a family emergency prevented me from…

Zero Book’s Anti-Semitic Book Launch Gilad Atzmon’s book ‘The Wandering Who?’ may not match the sales of Mein Kampf, but it is without doubt a poisonous anti-Semitic tome. Atzmon’s politics also represent a threat to Palestine solidarity as they turn the focus away from Israeli settler-colonialism and its US backers onto Jews as individuals. It…

Since this is my blog I thought I’d let readers have a look at recent coverage in the press, both locally and nationally, of my activities!

The Zionist Community Security Trust is supposed to Prevent anti-Semitism in Britain – Instead it Helps Create It Of one thing there should be no doubt. The Community Security Trust despite its protestations is a thoroughly Zionist organisation. I was personally manhandled at the inaugural meeting of Independent Jewish Voices, as have other anti-Zionists and…

CST – Funded by Richard Desmond – Supporter of the Fascist EDL When this blog was first established in January 2008 it was in the middle of the battle against a few anti-Semites on Indymedia who were determined to post the ravings of Gilad Atzmon. The blog described itself unashamedly as ‘Socialist, anti-Zionist and anti-racist’.…