Posts by Tony Greenstein

PCHR Denounces Gaza Ministry of Education’s Decision to Prevent Students Having Scholarships to Study in USA from Leaving Gaza It’s unbelievable. After Israel has come under attack for preventing Gazan students taking up Fulbright and other scholarships abroad, thus denying Palestinian youth educational opportunities, the backwoodsmen of Hamas, who look back to the 7th Century…

An interesting article from the daily bible of capitalism, the Financial Times about who owns Israel. Forget the nationalist rhetoric designed for the masses, Israel is a market economy designed to produce superprofits for the few and a diet of never ending war on the Arabs to divert the attention of its own citizens. But…

The Canteen Culture of the Company Employed by Government to Throw the Disabled off Benefits What a treasure Anthony Treasure is. Treasure is an Administrator for ATOS Healthcare. You know those oh so sensitive souls who run the Government’s testing of Incapacity Benefit claimants and soon those claiming Disability Living Allowance. There is no PR…

Officer who defended beating Palestinians to take over infantry Who would have thought it? The most moral army in the world is promoting a Colonel who supported the firing of a rubber bullet at point blank range at a Palestinian youth, bound and blindfolded. Clearly this is a man of exceptional qualities, who goes into…

The Calls for Vengeance By Eton Toff Cameron and his Sycophantic Supporters in the BBC Grow Apace I was on holiday in Ireland last week, nearly getting myself killed in a car crash (all my own fault!). But there was wall to wall coverage in rural County Galway. It all seemed so clear. And it…

Yes We Should Support the Israeli Protest Movement – But Without Illusions Almost unreported in the British press, there have been mass protests in Israel against the housing crisis. Some parts of the Left will undoubtedly see in these protests the harbinger of social revolution. Instead of Zionism, socialism will be ushered in through protests…

UPDATE:Ramzy Baroud has pulled out of the Conference citing existing commitments. We confidently predict that this will not be the last speaker to realise that things aren’t what they seem. Conference Organiser Calls for Tony Greenstein to be Put in a ‘Preventive Detention’ i.e. a Concentration Camp I was first alerted early last week to…

After giving the Hitler salute Russian Neo-Nazis have time to Visit Yad Vashem! Comment is superflous regarding this story from Richard Silverstein’s blog. Two far-right members of the Knesset – Aryeh Eldad of the National Union (formerly National Religious Party) and Ayoob Kara of Likud welcome Russian neo-Nazis to Israel. They go on a tour…

The ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ makes free-speech illegal The ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ recently took another step towards become a police state when it recently outlawed support for the Boycott in the country itself. This effectively criminalises free speech. If you advocate the boycott of Israeli goods, not just from Israel…