Posts by Tony Greenstein

Maybe it’s unsurprising but even Britain’s 2 most liberal dailies, the Guardian and Independent, have not covered the triple suicide of the Serkhi family in Glasgow last week. A Russian family, they threw themselves to their deaths from a 15th floor flat in Glasgow, the highest such flats in Europe and as you can see…

Eric Lee’s Scab Campaign Against Amnesty International Who you might ask is Eric Lee? Well there is a web site that supposedly supports workers of the world in their struggles. It is run by an Israeli reserve officer Eric Lee. Nothing wrong with that you might say and of course you are right. Plenty of…

From little acorns, oak trees grow.Tony Greenstein Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) welcomes landmark EU court ruling, calls for intensifying grassroots BDS Palestine- 15 March: The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign National Committee (BNC) welcomes the long overdue ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union that Israeli products originating from Israel’s colonial…

Jewish Group Urges Israeli Model Bar Refaeli not to marry Leonardo DiCaprio and dilute the Jewish race Is Zionism racist? Of course not. It’s just a gentle Jewish cultural and spiritual association of like-minded thinkers! And pigs (kosher of course) can fly. In most countries you will find clubs and societies which are allied with…

First Dershowitz now Kramer – Harvard University Just Loves Academic Racists There must be something about the air in Massachusetts these days. They’ve just gone and elected a Republican Senator in a State where a donkey could get elected if it wore the Democratic colours (some say it has already!). Now it’s flagship University, Harvard,…

‘The Only Democracy in the Middle East’ Attacks Another Human Rights ActivistDespite its pretended opposition to terrorism (apart from its own of course), what Israel most fears is a mass non-violent peaceful protest by Palestinians. Palestinian ‘terrorism’ is easy to deal with since Israel is far more powerful than its adversaries and terrorism has always…

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…