Posts by Tony Greenstein

It is not often that one comes across an interview which merits the adjective ‘brilliant’. However Kenneth O’Keefe’s interview with the BBC, in 3 parts lives up to the billing as he lays into Israel’s bare-faced lies to justify its attack on the Mavi Marmara and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. He points out that yes…

It is unbelievable, but unfortunately true. Electronic Intifada, the most reliable and prestigious Palestinian site, has been leaked documents that conclusively prove that Mahmoud Abbas’s quisling PA actually sought to undermine a resolution from Turkey condemning Israel’s attack on the flotilla and even left it to the US’s catspaw Ban ki-Moon , the Secretary General,…

Although I haven’t covered the case recently, because of the attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, the arrest and torture of Ameer Makhoul is extremely important. I covered this previously prior to the murder of the activists on the Mavi Marmara. This is an article about the appearance of Makhoul at a closed hearing of…

This one video explains all the lies and obfuscations of Israel. It should be required viewing for BBC Reporters. Tony Greenstein After seeing passengers shot at close range they tried to grab the weapons to stop the killing. Kenneth Nichols O’Keefe was later beaten by the Israelis. A US war veteran said yesterday he confronted…

Although this blog mainly carries articles on the oppression of the Palestinians and opposition to Zionism it is, as it states, a Socialist blog, i.e. anti-capitalist. The story of the blowout of BP’s oil well is an important one, because it is a symptom of the destructive capacity of capitalism, which rapaciously eats its way…

Gaza convoy activists claim Israeli soldiers using debit cards stolen in raid An interesting story about the most moral army in the world. We know, of course, that Israel confiscated cameras, mobiles and film to prevent the truth of what happened on the Mava Marmara getting out. But now it seems that the pirates who…

Birds of a feather flock together I was taught and school. And we are having a good demonstration of this with the link-up between Zionist activists and the English Defence League. Two weeks ago the EDL joined the Zionist Federation at a joint demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy in support of Israel’s murderous attack on…

150 Academics, writers, lawyers and activists say to the BBC – Stop Lying Over the Murders on the Mavi Marmara The BBC has always been a creature of the British establishment. From the days when Lord Reith wouldn’t let the Archbishop of Canterbury broadcast an appeal for compromise during the General Strike (Reith supported the…

The Day Israel’s Death Squads Took to the High Seas The Lies of the Israeli State and the Labour-Likud-Yisrael Beteinu government are coming home to roost. You may still remember the initial propaganda, that a boat of human rights activists were really terrorists and had taken by surprise elite Naval Commandos and tried to lynch…

Two excellent pieces. The first by Uri Avnery, the veteran Israeli peace campaigner. Uri is not an anti-Zionist and he opposes the Boycott campaign but he has consistently fought for a genuine Palestinian state alongside Israel (something which is impossible as this contardicts the purpose and aim of the West’s Middle Eastern rotweiller) and more…