Posts by Tony Greenstein

Make Capitalism not the Working Class and Poor Pay for the Crisis Brighton has been at the forefront in developing a national anti-cuts movement. Large demonstrations of two thousand last year against the cuts and a massive four thousand school students demonstration against tuition fees and another massive demonstration of over five thousand by trade…

Community Security Trust Throws Its Weight Around Britain’s Jewish Community I have written a number of times about the Community Security Trust, a group allegedly devoted to protecting British Jews from anti-Semitism, that was set up by the Board of Deputies of British Jews. About how it manipulates and distorts statistics of anti-Semitic incidents for…

War Crimes in Bosnia It was only in the very recent past that the war crimes and genocide were committed that are in their brutality the same as those that had been committed in World War II: concentration camps, mass (execution style) killings of innocent civilians, rapes, torturing, ethnic cleansing…It happened during the Serbian aggression…

Debate At South Bank – For or Against the Cultural Boycott of Israel Tonight was one of the more unusual events. A debate at the South Bank Centre in the Purcell Room between Omar Barghouti, an Israeli Arab who founded PACBI, the Palestinian Academic Boycott Initiative and Seni Seneviratne from Sri Lanka, who were in…

Firle Beacon and Seaford Downs walk Yesterday, Saturday 9th July, about 20 of us set off on an arduous walk from Newhaven, Sussex’s only industrial town, on a walk that ended up in the Sussex village of Bishopstone. The church at Bishopstone is the oldest in Sussex, having been built at the time of the…

Update – Sunday 9th July 14.22 I have just called the Foreign & Commonwealth Office 0207 270 1500 and been told that consular assistance is being provided but I was also told by an unnamed civil servant that they had broke international law! Being referred to the Global Response Service, one Gail Johnson stated that…

Flotilla activist: Israel wanted Irish ship to sink at sea Owner of Irish ship Saorise presents photos of damaged propeller shaft, which he says was damaged in order sink ship after it had set sail for Gaza. ‘Israel only party likely to have carried out this potentially murderous act,’ he says At the time of…

Israel’s Stalinists Learn Nothing from the Collapse of the Soviet Union There is no doubt that the ICP was, for a long time, the only legal party in Israel to stand up to the racist Zionist attacks on Arab Israelis. However it did much harm by tying the fortune of Israel’s Arabs to that of…

Cotler Accepts that Calling Israel an Apartheid State is not Anti-Semitic It’s almost as if dawn is breaking and some of Zionism’s most ardent advocates had decided to take a cold shower of reality, outside the Israeli hasbara (propaganda) cocoon.Liberal (read Conservative) Canadian MP and former Justice Minister, Irwin Cotler, who coined the phrase that…

An Offer One Cannot Help But Decline! I had some very strange offers in the past but this beats them all. A group of fundamentalist Christians, in the name of one Faith Swanson, wrote to me inviting me to leave Google’s Blogspot and take up with them! Naturally I had a look at their web…