Posts by Tony Greenstein

Crisis for Gabi Weber’s Conference as Hajo Meyer Threatens to Withdraw because Gilad Atzmon Denies that Auschwitz was a Death Camp “Why does he not deny that the earth is round and that there was ever a First World War.” Hajo Meyer on fellow Conference Speaker Gilad Atzmon By Gabi Weber’s own admission two speakers…

Avi Dichter of Kadimah Proposes to Cut the Gordonian Knot at the Heart of Zionist Politics – The question of whether Israel could be both a Jewish and a Democratic state has been the conundrum at the heart of Israeli politics. The Declaration of Independence pledged that the Israeli Stated would ‘be based on freedom,…

Israel’s Protests Are Limited by a Shared Zionist Consensus Almost unremarked in the British media are the protests in Israel. They have also been ignored by much of the Arab world as not fitting into its nationalist template. Others, Israeli socialists and peace campaigners in particular, have seen them as heralding the possibility of a…

A timely article from John Pilger starts with the routine violence of the Police against another stop and search victim. Finding nothing, having assaulted him already, they promise they’ll find something ‘next time’. Of course this isn’t violent for the forces of law and order. Likewise killing people abroad in the name of ‘freedom’ to…

Don’t trade with Apartheid as the Boycott Takes Its Toll For some years we have picketted and boycotted Agrexco, the giant conglomerate which exports settlement produce from the West Bank to Europe. Agrexco is now facing bankruptcy as is Veolia, another prominent investor in Israel. The lesson? Don’t trade with Apartheid. Tony Greenstein BDS campaigners…

An interesting article by Noam Chomsky who, although supporting the idea of a Jewish state has been barred from entering Israel. Presumably the Jewish State can’t stand criticism, even from an 80 year old soft-Zionist. As always with Chomsky, the analysis is interesting and more often true. Tony Greenstein America in Decline By Noam Chomsky…

How a Norwegian Labour Party Youth Camp Became a Hitler Youth Rally (Glenn Beck/ex-Fox) It is amazing how all the techniques of 1984 and a few more besides, were employed to cover the mass murderer Hans Breivik. Firstly it was suspected that the attacker was an Islamic terrorist. When that was shown to be a…

This year has seen the overthrow of two dictators, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. The struggle to oust Yemen’s dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh has still not been resolved but the United States and Saudi Arabia are doing their best to keep him. In Libya the struggle was effectively…

You would have thought that Hamas would have welcomed the presence of NGO’s in Gaza. After all they are a life-line to the outside world, they tell of Israel’s atrocities and also bring projects upon which the poorest Palestinians depend. But that is the point. Hamas has grown fat on the tunnel trade whilst poorer…

I thought it would be interesting to post this article from a disillusioned Zionist. He still sees himself a ‘friend of Israel’ but one willing to offer critical advice. There are not likely to be many takers. The course of Zionism was set in stone a century and more ago, not in 1967. Of course…