Posts by Tony Greenstein

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We Should Celebrate the Demise of New Labour As most people will be aware, Britain’s New Labour government has been replaced by a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition which has a majority of around 70.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…

Sometimes, as they say, life is stranger than fiction. Israel has outdone itself this time. It has expelled Prado, the notorious Spanish clown, for not disclosing his links with Arab terrorists. Refusing to crack after 6 hours interrogation the clown was clearly guilty and was therefore unceremoniously expelled from Israel. He had been hoping to…

My first memories of the JNF were of its ubiquitous blue box that most Jewish families had. It stood on the mantlepiece and was the recipient of one’s spare change. After all it was a charity, by definition a good cause, and didn’t we all know about what good work it did planting forests and…

Imagine it. Parliament passes a law that says any organisation or non-governmental organisation which passes information about British war crimes in Iraq or Afghanistan to an international organisation, or which collaborates with an organisation seeking to arrest British war criminals, is rendered illegal. Membership of such an organisation will render you liable to imprisonment and…