Posts by Tony Greenstein

Saturday September 4, 2010The Magdalen Centre, Eversholt Street, London NW1 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 11.00 Registration 11.15 Welcome – Deborah Fink Introduction – Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi 11.30 Panel discussion with:Haim Bresheeth, filmmaker, Chair of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, member of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) Antony Lerman, former…

Ken O’Keefe is an ex-marine and one of those are individuals in the military who manage to make sense of the role of the institutions in which they served. They praise you when you are fighting and dying and then incarcerate you or impoverish you for the rest of your life. Remember the ‘heroes’ of…

Jonathan Hoffman, Co-Chair of the Zionist Federation Eats Humble Pie! We all get things wrong and by itself that is no reason to gloat. But Jonathan Hoffman, co-Chair of the Zionist Federation is in a different league. He is the personification of Zionist Hasbarah (propaganda). He deliberately lies whenever he feels that it will serve…

Jonathan Hoffman Threatens to Sue Tony Greenstein for Reporting the Zionist-EDL Connection According to his comment unless I take the story down about the joint demonstration between EDL and the Zionist Federation, of which he is the co-chair, Jonathan Hoffman’s lawyers will be talking to me from 8 am on Monday! Bit early I thought…

Auschwitz Replaces Massada as Israel’s Foundational MythI first visited a concentration/extermination camp in the early 1990’s at Sachsenhausen, north of Berlin. Like Auschwitz it had the infamous ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ (Work Makes You Free). Unlike Auschwitz there was no fanfare, a headphone to listen to, but the camp was not advertised to the outside world…

They were almost holding hands! Photographs are from Robert Hoffman I know Harold Wilson once said that a week is a long time in politics and 10 weeks must seem like an eternity, but one would have thought that one’s principles might last a little longer. But then again, demonisation of Muslims and the Palestinians…

Jewish Chronicle Editor, Stephen Pollard says the blinding in one eye, by Israeli Border Guards of Emily Honchowicz, “will make a fine addition to my ‘delete’ folder.” Jewish Chronicle Editor, Stephen Pollard, says that he is not interested in the truth of what happened. I wrote to Pollard, ex-editor of the Daily Express (owned by…

[The following four photos are by Ata Abu Madyam of Arab Negev News] Hundreds of Israeli Schoolchildren are brought along to participate and be educated in the meaning of Zionism You will recall the pretexts over the starvation siege of Gaza and the road blocks/confiscations etc. in the West Bank. ‘Terrorism’. Problem is that the…