Posts by Tony Greenstein

You can gain an inkling of the kind of the state the United States really is, beneath the veneer of ‘democratic’ trappings, in the kind of treatment that Bradley Manning has received. Manning is widely believed to be the source of the WikiLeaks revelations and the person who decided that the fresh air of openness…

This looks an extremely interesting conference to anyone who wants to learn about the history of settler colonialism in Palestine. It is one of a series of excellent conferences put on by the SOAS Palestine Society. The speakers are of the usual high class and I can personally recommend his book The Returns of Zionism…

A Happy end to a Quisling Site When Mary Rizzo’s ‘PeacePalestine’ site closed, she and Gilad Atzmon opened what was to be an up-market ‘think tank’ where the old silliness and obvious anti-Semitism would be consigned to the scrap heap. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be. For Gilad Atzmon anti-Semitism is a hard habit to kick.…

As the regime of the reactionary clown, Muamar Ghadaffi, goes through its death agonies, whilst taking many many lives with it, the voices of liberal interventionism raise their ugly heads. Let us be clear. Any western intervention will be aimed not at saving lives but preserving oil for use by the invaders. Who can honestly…

Why the Zionist ‘Left’ Are the Most Dedicated Supporters of Arab Dictatorships In most countries, the Left of the political spectrum is normally opposed to dictatorships and the apparatus of the police state. Of course exceptions need to be made for the lingering fondness of Stalinism for autocracy, but in general the Left stands for…

As I wrote 2 weeks the revolutions in the Middle East are half-finished. The dictators Ben Ali and Mubarak of Tunisia and Egypt have departed but their regimes remain intact. Instead of Mubarak’s ‘civilian’ facade we have the naked reality of army rule. But in any revolution there is no standing still. Either the warfor…

I have written before on how Hamas represses, wherever possible, the population of Gaza. The latter post, citing as it does an important article by Haidar Eid, an Associate Professor at Gaza’s Al Aqsa University is particularly important. I was e-mailed today by someone who was previously unknown to me, one Nahida. Nahida confined her…

25 Years Fighting the Board of Deputies of British Jews I went to a meeting last night hosted by the Jewish Socialists’ Group. An excellent meeting it was on ‘Policing, Surveillance and Community Security’. Liz Davies and Kat Craig of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, who represented students in cases arising from recent demonstrations…

Mubarak Down and the Army Generals Must Be Next One can only stand in awe and admiration of the Egyptian masses for achieving the overthrow of the dictator Hosni Mubarak, former leader of the most important US client in the region after Israel. Their bravery and endurance is as remarkable as is their suffering. A…

Israel’s Knesset to Hold Debate on Cultural Boycott News comes from the Alternative Information Centre in Jerusalem that the Knesset is to hold its first discussion of the cultural boycott. The wave of boycotts by artists – from Santana to Elvis Costello – Israelis are beginning to get the message that the civilised world doesn’t…