Posts by Tony Greenstein

Why Israel cannot be a Democratic and a Jewish State – Ahmad Tibi The achilles heel of supporters of Two States, as well as Zionists, is the question of the Arabs in Israel. Two States supporters usually prefer, like Britain’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the problem.…

Let us not beat about the bush. Elton John played in South Africa’s Sun City despite the Boycott of Apartheid South Africa. Elton John has made it clear that he is equally determined to play in the Apartheid State of Israel. Why? Because all his ‘gay politics’ are self-centred. His is a lifestyle form of…

This is forwarded by that indefatiguable human rights campaigner, Dr Derek Summerfield. Derek Summerfield waged a long war of attrition against the last president of the World Medical Association Yoram Blachar, who was also head of the Israeli Medical Association. In that capacity Blachar had dismissed all allegations of the use of torture by the…

As I have already pointed out http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2010/04/prelude-to-transfer-military-orders.html the Israeli State is, at this very moment, beginning the process of transfer from the West Bank, which is a precondition for the maintenance of a ‘democratic, Jewish state’. It can be democratic as long as there are as few Arabs as possible! Of course the Western leaders,…

When I first heard that the Zionist State of Israel had just barred Noam Chomsky from entering it, the first thing I thought was ‘thank god for Netanyahu/Liberman’. They can achieve far more than we will ever manage when it comes to explaining why Israel is not a normal or democratic state but a racial…

Coming after the cancellation of concerts by Santana, Gil Scott-Heron and U2, Elvis Costello, who topped the big Brixton Rock Against Racism concert in Brixton thirty years ago is the Crème de la Crème! Just as the sporting boycott of South Africa caused immense shock to the psyche of White South Africans, so a Cultural…

You will no doubt be familiar with the familiar ‘security’ argument for ethnic cleansing and expulsions. It goes something like this. First we give them a hard time, discriminate as a matter of course, pay less, impose different restrictions etc., then when they rebel and if, god forbid, they use violence, then we can describe…

You just have to admire the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ and even more so the Orwellian propaganda machine in the West that pretends that confiscation of land, expulsion of its inhabitants, the permanent enshrinement of 2nd class citizenship on those Palestinians who weren’t expelled in 1948 is somehow compatible with democracy. Where else…

We Should Celebrate the Demise of New Labour As most people will be aware, Britain’s New Labour government has been replaced by a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition which has a majority of around 70. There is going to be a temptation for much of the Left to engage in simple Tory bashing now that the Tory-Liberal…

An Authoritarian Regime Takes Shape in Israel ‘The only democracy in the Middle East’ is determined to prove its detractors correct, as it continues the attack on anyone, in particular but not exclusively Palestinians, who challenge its naked racism. Ameer Makhoul and Omar Sa’id are but the latest victims. Those who argue for Ghandian-style passive…