Posts by Tony Greenstein

Biblical Justice in Brighton’s County Court On 12th June last year I was handing out leaflets outside Waitrose Supermarket in Brighton. This is part of Brighton PSC’s weekly stall . As normal I urged shoppers not to buy Apartheid Produce, stolen from the Palestinians and the reception was, as always, a good one. Except that…

Support the strikers of the Salit Quarries Support for the Palestinians often assumes that they are one undifferentiated people. But of course, even under occupation, there is a Palestinian bourgeoisie and middle-class, however small and weak politically, and a Palestinian working class and peasantry. It is the poorest Palestinians who suffer most from the Occupation…

The Tragic Death of a Much Loved Comrade The older one gets, the more one becomes acquainted with the death of former friends and comrades. But nothing prepared me for the shock of learning that Alf Filer had died when his car broke down on the A27 and another car, whose driver I understand has…

Blow to those who wanted to relieve pressure on Israel and its Histadrut Supporters Histadrut, Isral’s apartheid union, has never, not once, opposed the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Not surprising since its building company (since privatised) Solel Boneh built the early settlements! Like many people I believed that the sabotage by Shaher…

and York Against War Invite Atzmon to Speak Despite Opposition Locally Atzmon Wants to Question Everything (especially the Holocaust) But Seeks Protection Through Censorship Unity FM is a Muslim radio station in Birmingham and Sami Ibrahim is a presenter who has interviewed me on a number of occasions in the past, so it was no…

This video speaks for itself. A young Jewish man dares to shout about human rights at the Jerusalem Day celebrations (for Zionism that is) and he is violently attacked by the Police, who take care to ensure that his mouth is covered by his keffiyah, thus preventing him from shouting or speaking. Note at the…

Blaming the Poor for Poverty is as Old as Capitalism Thirty years ago, at the height of Thatcher’s monetarist induced recession, Brighton Unemployed Centre was formed by unemployed activists, the Trades Council and Workers Educational Association, as a voice and weapon of the unemployed. It was based in a small building in Coalbrook Road, long…

British Royal Family’s good friend, the King of Bahrain, launches wave of terror, torture and massacre against Protestors We have all heard about the terrible things done by the Syrian regime under Assad, and the torture and mutilation of a 13 year old boy, Hamza al-Khatib. But about Bahrain, there is virtual silence. Not only…

An important book. Gilbert Achcar’s ‘The Arabs & the Holocaust’ looks at the relationship of the Arabs and Palestinians to the Nazis . It demolishes a number of myths the Zionists have built up around the holocaust, such as the ‘fact’ that the Arabs and Palestinians were overwhelmingly sympathetic to the Nazis. Have reviewed it…

German guards oversee the assembly of Jews in Kamenets-Podolsk prior to their transportation to a site outside of the city for execution No to Israeli ‘Numerus Clausus’ Laws In September 1922 the Numerus Clausus Act was enacted in Hungary. It restricted Jewish participation in the universities to the same percentage that the Jews had amongst…