Posts by Tony Greenstein

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…

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…