Posts by Tony Greenstein

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…

Back in September 2009 PSC couldn’t help trumpeting their victory at TUC Congress. The TUC had, apparently, agreed to a Boycott of Israel, which was indeed a victory. Later it transpired that what had happened was not all that it had been cracked up to being. The TUC had passed a motion from the Fire…

In the Report below by the PFLP, over 70,000 demonstrators rallied in Gaza for the leftist Palestinian PFLP. Independent observers put the numbers at 50,000 which is still a significant number Of course, like Israeli politics, Palestinian politics do not easily fit into conventional definitions. For the PFLP, socialism often takes the form of being…

An interesting article on the pressures to ensure that the Law of Return, the racist building block of Israeli Apartheid, is tightened up and Jews converted by the non-Orthodox and converts who have undergone an Orthodox conversion, would not be enough to guarantee Israeli citizenship. Thus one sees that the racism that Zionism has faithfully…

It is one of the hallmarks of a civilised society how children are treated. Israel demonstrates that when it comes to the children of Palestinians then their treatment is little different from those of adult Palestinians. Children of 12 are tried and sentenced as adults, they are subject to torture and mistreatment, their parents can’t…

If anything testifies to the nature of Israeli Apartheid it is the fact that half a million Israeli settlers (including East Jerusalem) use more water than the 2½+ million Palestinians in the West Bank. Settlers use over 17 times as much water per capita as Palestinians. The articles below illustrate some aspects of this grand…

Whilst the Scottish TUC Move to Break Links with Histadrut British PSC Defend the Link with Histadrut The contrast between the Scottish TUC, which has given full support to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel and the British TUC couldn’t be more marked. On the one hand the Scottish TUC is indicating it will cut…