Posts by Tony Greenstein

Publish It Not Jonathan Cook The Link – Volume 43, Issue 5 – November – December 2010 In the mid-1990s, I arrived in Jerusalem for the first time–then as a tourist–with the potent Western myth at the front of my consciousness: that of Israel as “a light unto the nations,” the plucky underdog facing a…

Israel Demolishes Mosque in Jordan ValleyNovember 28th, 2010 | by TheOnlyDemocracy Below is an al Jazeera video of Israel pulling down a mosque in the Jordan Valley village of Khirbat Yarza, Tubas, yesterday morning (deep inside the West Bank). Over 60% of the Jordan Valley in the West Bank is under “Israeli control”, though in…

Hamas – Speaking With a Forked Tongue Publically it won’t recognise Israel but Diplomatically it accepts 2 States An important interesting article by veteran Palestinian activist and academic, Haidar Eid. Whereas in the West there is a pretence to maintain, that Hamas wishes to wipe out all Jews, refuses to accept Israel etc., the reality…

Further commentary on this racist American Rabbi, who is you should note not an Israeli, is superflous. Tony Greenstein Leading rabbi says Europe risks being ‘overrun’ by Islam ANDREW RETTMAN 30.11.2010 CET EUOBSERVER / JERUSALEM One of the luminaries of the international Jewish community, Rabbi David Rosen, has warned that Europe risks being “overrun” by…

McCarthyites Seek to Stifle the Palestinians’ MessageNGO Monitor is one of those nasty little Zionist McCarthyite organisations that was set up to try and stifle the Palestinian message to the West. It is no accident that it has targetted the funding of Electronic Intifada, in just the same way as the Israeli government is targetting…

It’s an Ill Wind… As I wrote two years ago of Bernie Madoff, it’s an ill wind that blows no good. We may be in a financial crisis with hardship all around, but at least Bernie Madoff defrauded the best of them. Not only Elie Wiesel, who’s made a profession out of turning a blind…

The deliberate slow starvation of people, the poorest people in Gaza, because the regime there and its acolytes survive without problem thanks to the tunnel economy is reminiscent of the Nazi mentality. The fact that thousands don’t die each month, like in the Warsaw Ghetto, doesn’t mean that the same ideology, using the reduction of…

This is an interesting story on the response of Shraga Elam, an Israeli historian now living in Switzerland, to an article in the New York Times by Sam Roberts on how the US recruited ex-Nazis after the war. Roberts makes much in his article about the role of the British appointed Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj…

By Rebecca Vilkomerson On a personal note, I remember very clearly the weekend that Adeeb was arrested. I was still living in Israel, and a friend from Anarchists Against the Wall was arrested with him. This friend was detained for over 24 hours, blindfolded, etc. This was fairly harsh treatment for a Jewish Israeli, and…

15 Years Later Palestinian Compensation by Israel’s Secret Police – Shin Bet – for Torture Ha’aretz, 17.12.10 Jamal al-Hindi to receive an undisclosed amount of money for a partial disability that he says was caused by torture at the hands of Shin Bet agents 15 years ago. By Chaim Levinson In an unusual move, the…