Posts by Tony Greenstein

Jonathan Pollak was sentenced to three months imprisonment on December 29th at the Tel Aviv Magistrates’ Court for his participation on January 31, 2008 in a bicycle ride in protest of the siege on Gaza. He will begin serving his sentence on January 11th. In ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ that is a…

Yes, it’s the same Jonathan Hoffman, co-chair of the Zionist Federation, who claimed he was the victim of sustained anti-Semitic chanting at a UCU meeting at SOAS in 2009. On that occasion he only realised that he had been the victim of anti-Semitism after two weeks. By that time everyone else had got wise to…

When the Zionist Movement Decided to agree a Trade Agreement with Nazi Germany This is a reprint of a long article that Lenni Brenner, the foremost historian of Zionist attitudes to Fascism, including National Socialism, has written. I don’t always agree with Lenni on all his conclusions but his work and his books are invaluable…

Echoes From The Warsaw Ghetto In Gaza An Interview with Cecilie Surasky By Christiana Voniati 19 June, 2010 Countercurrents.org Gazing at letters that her grandmother wrote from the Warsaw Ghetto before she was killed , Deputy Director of the global organization “Jewish Voice for Peace”, Cecilie Surasky, discusses Israel’s “anti-Jewish” crimes and the inescapable comparison…

Israel’s ‘Street Apartheid By Jesse Bacon The excellent journalist Mya Guarnieri has a piece for Al Jazeera in which she focuses on the everyday inequality of street conditions in East Jerusalem. The difference can be as simple as a street light. Al Jazeera found that stoplights that lead to Jewish settlements and neighborhoods stay green…

Stop the Torture, Shooting, Shackling and Imprisonment of Palestinian Children The shooting of Hasan below and the continued incarcertation and physical abuse, amounting to torture, of Palestinian children as young as 13/14, is tolerated by the Western media who hear, say and see nothing. Of course if it was Hamas…. The article below that relates…

Martin Gilbert – Churchill’s Court Historian Tries to Rewrite the History of Arab-Jewish RelationsThis is an important and timely review. Martin Gilbert is one of the Establishment’s favourite court historians. The official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill and a key member of the British historical establishment. The fact that he was appointed by Gordon Brown…

It is ironical, given that fundamentalist Christians are those who are most supportive of Israel and the Zionists. Ironical because within Orthodox Judaism there is a virulent anti-Christian strain. Of course some of this was understandable, given the existence of Christian anti-Semitism you might think, but in fact Talmudic anti-Christian sentiments were a product of…

South Africa’s Israel boycott An international boycott helped end apartheid – now South Africans areleading world opposition to racism in Israel Ronnie Kasrils When Chief Albert Luthuli made a call for the international community to support a boycott of apartheid South Africa in 1958, the response was a widespread and dedicated movement that played a…

Fascism in the Jewish state? I have published this article, not because I agree with it but because it raises interesting issues. My own view are quite simple. Fascism describes a society where a counter-revolutionary movement takes power to defeat the working class and labour movement. It literally atomises society. It may, as in Nazi…