Posts by Tony Greenstein

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…

Tutu Urges South African Opera Company Not to Perform in Israel By DAVE ITZKOFF Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, has urged an opera company there not to perform in Israel, invoking South Africa’s long struggle against apartheid in criticizing Israel’s policy toward Palestinians, The Associated Press reported. The Cape Town Opera…

South Africa is already here 31 October 2010 By Zvi Bar’el, Haaretz – 31 Oct 2010 The government is trying to build a protected autonomy for the Jewish majority and a stunted autonomy for the Arab minority. How could the Israeli public allow a few dozen racists go down into the lion’s den of Umm…

This is why Israel is, quite rightly, described as an Apartheid State. But one with a difference. You won’t see ‘Jews Only’ signs anywhere in Israel. You don’t need to. The Police and Army know what’s what in the West Bank and in Israel itself, the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, has decided to simply by-pass the…

Well we’ve all known it. That the Quisling Palestinian Authority was given its orders by Israel, to sabotage the Goldstone Report, and that is what they’ve done. And why not? After all they urged Israel to go into Gaza in the first place to remove their competitors, the Hamas government. This is where ‘2 States’…

This is a blog which unashamedly purloins useful information from others! However credit where credit is due and in this case to Mick Hall’s Outrage site. Mick is one of the few socialists left in the Labour Party.Tony Greenstein Benefit cuts and changes timetable. Posted: 05 Nov 2010 12:10 AM PDT Below are details of…

People will probably not remember Allan Boesak, a leader of the Coloureds in South Africa, who were caught between the full apartheid experienced by Black people and the racial discrimination meted out to those who weren’t white. He was brought down by a sex scandal, being a member of the clergy at the time, which…

The Holocaust as a Political Weapon and an Extortion Racket The Zionists must rue the day they put one Prof. Charny in debate with Norman Finkelstein as it was embarrassing to watch him crushed. But then maybe that is small justice. Norman Finkelstein paid a heavy price for telling the truth about how the holocaust…

Why have I published this? Because I want to see a democratic, secular, state in Palestine. Some will say it undermines the Palestinian cause. Nonsense. You cannot oppose Zionist religious fundamentalism and support its Islamic counterpart. Of course there are massive differences . One is the product of weakness, the other of power. But Political…