Posts by Tony Greenstein

Last September the Trades Union Conference passed policy in support of the Boycott of Israeli Goods. At least that is what PSC Executive argued had happened. In fact the TUC had voted for a policy of boycotting Israeli settlement goods not a boycott of Israel’s economy. A more radical Fire Brigades Union motion, which called…

Jailed For Revealing Israeli Army Death Squads and Assassination PolicyCourtesy of the Only Democracy in the Middle East As in South Africa, so too in Israel. The price of maintaining police state repression of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and an attitude to Israel’s own Arab citizens that they are a fifth column, is…

a s d f g h j k l ; ‘ d d d a f As the British General Election takes off, with New Labour and the Conservatives representing nothing more than different wings (at best) of the British capitalist class, a demonstration organised by the National Pensioners’ Convention with support from the TUC…

Wonderful news but not unexpected from Scotland. The trumped up charges of ‘racism’ that the Scottish Procurator Fiscal tried to frame the 5 protestors were thrown out at the Edinburgh Sheriff Court. How can you be ‘racist’ against a nationality that doesn’t exist? That was the problem the PF faced when trying to argue that…

The Debate Continues Throughout this affair of the Boycott of the Jerusalem Quartet, there has been one consistent argument on behalf of the Jerusalem Quartet. Two of their members play in Daniel Barenbom’sWEDO, which was co-founded by Edward Said.Now I disagree on principle with these type of organisations. They are the gloss on Apartheid and…

BBC Upholds Complaint about SOAS Meeting Jonathan Hoffman Lied When Claiming ‘Anti-Semitic’ Abuse Anti-semitism is a terrible thing. Nothing can more trivialise it than accusing people who are not anti-semitic of being anti-Semites. Nothing can weaken our defences against anti-semitism and any other form of racism than making false and bogus allegations of ‘anti-semitism.’ It…

The Important Of Correct Language It is, dear reader, important that when discussing the Middle East and the Israel/Palestine Conflict, that you always use the right language. For example, as you may be aware, Israelis are never terrorists Palestinians by contrast are, as Melanie Phillips explained, a terrorist population. In the interests of fairness and…

Without comment as the racist and fascist EDL go on the rampage in Dudley on Saturday April 3rd. Tony Greenstein

BIN – Boycott Israel Network Takes OffBecause of the campaign around the Jerusalem Quartet, I have only now had time enough to devote to a report on the Boycott Israel Network. At an inaugural get together at Wooller Youth Hostel in Northumbria six months ago, a decision was taken to set up BIN – Boycott…

Well the furore caused by our action against the Jerusalem Quartet continues to grow apace. Apart from this blog receiving record hits, we have had 2 major articles in yesterday’s Independent, a Feedback on Radio 4 and growing international coverage such as YNet. But throughout all this is the argument that we disrupted, horror of…