Posts by Tony Greenstein

A Fake Iranian Passport Handed to Haneen Zoabi MK The Day Israel’s ‘Democracy’ Officially Died Yes I can hear the laughter of my Palestinian friends. But it’s true. You see even Britain, the biggest colonial power the world has known, maintained democracy of the bourgeois type at home even whilst it perpetrated massacres at Amritsar…

The comments of retired judge Hadassa Ben-Itto, reported in Israeli daily Yediot Aharanot, really don’t need any comment. Tony Greenstein Israeli judge: Learn from Nazis Retired Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto says as part of PR war, Israel should adopt tactics used to distribute Protocols of Elders of Zion Modi Kreitman “We must learn from the Nazi…

Elena Kagan is President Obama’s nomination for the Supreme Court to replace octogenarian liberal Justice John Paul Stevens. Kagan is, as she made clear in her eulogy to Aharon Barak, former Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, a dedicated Zionist. Barak was a ‘liberal’ who presided over the Court’s endorsement of torture after the…

An excellent article from Johann Harri on how the Investment Bankers, and other financial criminals, deliberately set up a derivatives market in food and grain. The result? Prices rose astronomically and thousands if not millions starved. Hari himself doesn’t draw any political conclusions. After all he is a liberal working for a liberal newspaper. Liberals…

Like most diaspora Jews, Emily Henochowicz, was brought up to believe that Arabs are intent on injuring or killing any Jew they come across and likewise that Israel was a place of refuge for all Jews against oppression. They didn’t tell her that Jews who mix with Arabs are termed ‘Arab lover’ (just as civil…

Now why did I wonder what my old friend Mel P (that was her name in the days of punk!) was writing? Maybe it’s because I could almost have written the article myself, complete with Spitting Image cartoon, because Mad Mel is nothing if not a predictable caricature of herself. Many people, including myself, wonder…

Five of the Seven are Acquitted – 2 Verdicts to Come Five of the seven accused in the EDO-MBM trial in Brighton, who were accused of criminal damage for having laid waste to EDO’s factory, have been acquitted at Hove Crown Court today. Verdicts will be announced on Friday in the case of the remaining…

29 June 2010 19:04:55A wonderful example of international solidarity. Activists have drawn exactly the correct lessons from the resistance of the Jewish resistance fighters [ZOB] in the Warsaw ghetto 67 years ago. Of course this was a lesson that Marek Edelman, last Commander of ZOB had learnt some time ago, much to the annoyance of…

UNISON’s national delegate conference, which met in the week of June 15th, passed a very strong emergency motion in the wake of Israel’s murderous attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Conference wasn’t having any of Israel’s justifications, the pretence that its navy commandos were the subject of ‘an attempted lynching’ by the human rights and…