Posts by Tony Greenstein

In the article below from Challenge – a magazine that broadly supports the Israeli Communist Party Khadash, Yacov Ben Efrat quotes columnist Nahum Barnea as saying that ‘it smells the same’ as the racist Nuremberg Laws the Nazis introduced in 1935 against the Jews. Despite proclaiming, as is de rigeur these days, that Israel is…

Loyalty oaths were one of the endearing features of the McCarthy period in US politics. An era that is universally accepted as being one of the ugliest in the West. It is no surprise that Israel, an ugly state at its best, should now be on the road to adopting this feature. Unlike the McCarthy…

Don’t Patronise the JNF – Guardian Appeal to Miliband Imagine if there was a British National Fund run by Israel’s good supporters in the English Defence League and British National Party. The BNF decided that in order to fulfil their dreams of ‘self-determination’ for the English and British People, it was necessary to ‘redeem’ the…

Peaceful Activists? No Such Thing All Opposition to Israel = Terrorism An excellent article by Ha’aretz’s Gideon Levy, one of the few sane voices, along with Amira Hass, amongst Israeli journalists. Most of the rest are content, like their counterparts elsewhere, to sing hymns of praise to Israel’s leaders and the military. Ironically when Mairead…

The JNF Plans to Plant Trees Over Newly Destroyed Bedouin Village of al-Arakib If you want to know why the Israeli State is not a democratic state, ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ as it likes to describe itself, then the demolition of a whole village for no other reason that you want to…

Don’t Patronise the Racist JNF It has become something of a trend for British party leaders to become Patrons of the Jewish National Fund. The JNF is the body in Israel that controls, together with the Israeli Lands Administration, some 93% of Israel’s land. Yet it will only lease or rent to Jews. Imagine a…

Monsters in Uniform – the Israeli Military I remember the Union of Jewish Student’s response to criticism of Israel. ‘Shalom’ and ‘Mutual Recognition’ they said. But of course these weren’t values that they took on board but as things to counterpose to support of the Palestinians and opposition to Zionist terror & racism. As if…

In the New Statesman yesterday and in the Morning Star, Tribune and Weekly Worker tomorrow/this weekend, an advert signed by over 200 people will appear. It criticises the disgraceful and shameful coverage by the BBC of the murders on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on May 31st this year. The advert has been signed a wide…

Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives Gilbert Achcar One of the most hotly talked about books issued this year has been Gilbert Achcar’s ‘Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives.’ Achcar is a Professor at the School of Oriental & African Studies. He is also a member of the Fourth…

News has just come in of the boarding of the Jewish boat, the Irene (named after Irene Bruegel one of the founders of Jews for Justice for Palestinians). Not content with a UN Human Rights Committee Report that branded the attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as illegal, having used brutality, torture as well as…