Posts by Tony Greenstein

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…

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…