Posts by Tony Greenstein

Met Police Commander Paul Stephenson Lies to Police Authority about the use of HorsesAfter the events of the last couple of weeks, it is clear the Metropolitan and City of London police have not learnt a dam thing about policing demonstrations from the incident in which Ian Tomlinson was murdered by a member of the…

Another Left Campaign Headed for Nowhere? At the unearthly hour of 8 am 9 of us from Brighton Benefits Campaign met at Brighton Station to go to the Coalition of Resistance. We included claimants and workers. The Coalition of Resistance is one of these favourite formats of the SWP and other far-left groups when they…

I took off an hour or so from the Culture of Resistance Conference to go and join the picket at Ahava. After direct action this week by 2 activists, who chained themselves to a concrete block, once again getting arrested for aggravated trespass, the picket was a quiet affair. Arriving at about 12.45 I was…

It has been a thorny problem for Israel’s legislators. How to allow the Jewish National Fund and Jewish towns to reject Arab inhabitants without specifiying ‘Arabs not wanted’. In South Africa and the Deep South of the USA there signs such as ‘Whites Only’, ‘Dogs and Blacks Keep Out’ but this would be somewhat embarrassing…

I came across this article recently and decided to republish it. A legend has grown up that the only massacre during Israel’s War of Independence, the Naqba, was that of Deir Yassin, for which Ben-Gurion apologised whilst blaming on Menachem Begin.In fact Deir Yassin was one of a number of massacres, such as Duweimah, Tantura,…

A few weeks ago, we had the police defending the fascists and pogromists whilst attacking their victims? And where was this? Pre-war Poland and Germany? Northern Ireland? South Africa? No Israel. The fascist Kach movement and supporters decided to march, as the American Nazi Party did through Skoki in Chicago, where many holocaust survivors lived,…

Now let me see if I’ve got this right. The Guardian’s Comment is Free censors, or ‘moderators’ as they like to call themselves, search diligently for any sign or evidence of a comparison between Zionism and Nazi Germany, as such comparisons are, by definition ‘anti-Semitic’ or at least not acceptable to their liberal establishment friends.…

Christian Zionism – Ally of both Zionism and anti-semitism Too little attention has been paid to the Christian Zionists in the United States. A lobby 30 million strong they represent, with god’s blessing of course, the most atavistic, corrupt and barbaric section of the US body politic. And no one better represents them than Hitler…

The only moral from this story is that even in the direst situation, where the moral pressure to use torture from one’s fellows is overwhelming, that human feelings and considerations can operate to counteract the pressure the military will bring to bear. As the following story demonstrates, torture in interrogation was the norm amongst the…