Posts by Tony Greenstein

Many on the Left are confused by the Western Intervention in Libya. After all the hypocrisy of the US and NATO’s bombing campaign (‘The No Fly Zone’) is in starked contrast to its endorsement of the shooting of hundreds of demonstrators in Bahrain and the intervention there by the medieval US dictatoship of Saudi Arabia.…

Total Victory over Israel’s ‘Beauty’ Thieves It was little more than a year ago that Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods launched a campaign of pickets against the Israel’s Ahava shop in London’s prestigious Covent Garden. After a fortnightly picket and much direct action Ahava’s landlords have had enough of complaints by Ahava’s neighbouring businesses. Admittedly…

It is a sign of Israel’s political degeneration and how the mask of liberalism has slipped that a law has been passed which criminalises and denies funding to any organisation or group that commemorates the Nakba, the expulsion of some ¾ million Palestinian Arabs into neighbouring countries. There was a time when Israel attempted to…

TUC Connives With Police to Lower Estimate of Numbers Attending Brighton was typical of many places. All the coaches for miles around were booked for the March. We got to the Embankment yesterday at about 11.30 a.m. and went on a detour round East London in order to free up space. The march crawled the…

Impose a No-Fly Zone on Gaza not Libya Anyone who believes that the imperialist assault on Libya has anything to do with a justified sense of anger at Col. Ghadaffi’s murder and terrorisation of the opposition needs their head examined. It hasn’t escaped notice that the same ‘supporters’ of the Libyan Revolution have also supported…

Unfortunately Barnardos weren’t able to provide ‘care’ and ‘support’ for those waiting in line to be gassed at Auschwitz The ads are deliberately designed to appeal to your emotions (& your pocket). Three sad and forlorn white children with the strap line ‘Help Exploited Children’ and ‘Watch our TV Ad’ – and just in case…

The Triumph of the Collective Good over Private Interest One of the few triumphs we have had since the Tory-Lib Dem Coalition took government in Britain in May 2010 has been the retreat over the privatisation of Britain’s woodland. When it was announced that our forests were going to be privatised there was uproar, even…

Defend Jonathan Hoffman – The Jewish Churchill We have had our disagreements outside the Israeli Embassy and Ahava over little things like the EDL lending their support to the Zionists and Israel. True we have occasionally exchanged unpleasantries outside Ahava as Michael Shanahan’s lilting tones wind up ‘Hoffie’ as he is affectionately known. True it…

Introduction Why, you might ask, devote time, space and an article to Gilad Atzmon, the ex-Israeli jazz player? The answer is simple. It is because of the Zionist canard that anti-Semitism equals anti-Zionism. Atzmon is determined to prove the Zionists are correct. There are many people who find it difficult to believe that Atzmon is…

Pete Seeger & Roger Waters Declare Support for the Cultural Boycott There is no doubt that cultural boycott is achieving greater and greater significance and impact, as it did with the boycott of South Africa. Unlike an economic boycott, which can often be circumvented or resisted for years, a cultural boycott can have a very…