Posts by Tony Greenstein

Brighton’s First Organised Trade Union Demonstration for over a Decade Class struggle in the workplace had declined immensely in the past two decades as trade unions ability to defend their membership has been significantly weakened. New Labour came to power in 1997 with Tony Blair boasting that he would preside over the most restrictive anti-union…

Is National Liberation Contingent Upon Socialism? I am happy to reprint Moshe Machover’s speech to the SOAS Conference on the Left & Palestine/ Palestinians and the Left. Much of it I would agree with. It is a standard Matzpen anti-Zionist analysis of the situation in Israel and the Middle East. However the schematic division of…

Academic Left Conference on Palestine Fails to Match Up to Expectations The weekend of 27-28th February saw the holding of a quite unique conference on the Left and the Palestinian Question. I cannot remember a similar attempt to hold such a conference in the past. It is therefore doubly unfortunate that there was no attempt…

A Conference not to be missed! And certainly not something that Britain’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign could organise given its slavish adherence to a 2 State Solution and the PA’s diplomatic strategy of reliance on the West. At a time when we have seen Hamas, an avowedly sectarian organisation, rise to the leadership of the Palestinians,…

Last summer whilst on holiday I took a copy of Francis Nicosia’s Zionism & anti-semitism in Nazi Germany for light reading! An appalling apologia for the collaboration of the Zionist movement in Germany with the new Nazi government, I said that I would do a review of that book and its predecessor, The Third Reich…

Martin Kramer is President-Designate of Shalem College as well as being a fellow of Harvard University, alongside fellow racist, Alan Dershowitz. Shalem College is supposed to be Israel’s first ‘liberal’ arts college. Clearly the Israeli and non-Israeli definition of ‘liberal’ have different meanings. As the excellent article on Electronic Intifada makes clear, the Kramer’s (&…

On 10th February I sent a letter to Mark Gardener, spokesman for the Zionist Community Security Trust, which records incidents of ‘anti-semitism’ in such a way as to ‘prove’ that anti-semitism is increasing alongside criticism of Israel (rather than Israel’s actions being responsible for anti-Semitism). My letter referred to a number of such incidents: i.…

Friday, February 12, 2010Delegitimization of Israel – A Strategic Threat Israel delegitimizers threaten its existence Writing in Haaretz, Reut Institute Founder Gidi Grinstein, who formerly worked in the office of war criminal Ehud Barak, describes an “unholy alliance” aiming to turn Israel into a pariah state and recommends a comprehensive policy approach to address the…

This is an important article as is the report below about the denial of visas. The ‘expert’ pundits in the West never tire of saying that if the Palestinians stopped resorting to ‘terrorism’ then all would be fine. If only Palestinians wouldn’t fire those rockets then Gaza would not be under siege. Of course the…