Posts by Tony Greenstein

There is very little to say about this welcome initiative other than it takes a lot of courage to come out in favour of boycotting the society you live in. Just like White South Africans who supported the Boycott Movement, those few Israeli Jews who stood out will be remembered whilst the Liebermans and Netanyahus…

As the letter below from Scottish PSC says, it is truly shocking – but not at all surprising – that the ‘official’ i.e. government sponsored State Holocaust Remembrance Group has decided not to publish the events at which Hajo Meyer, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp is speaking. What is Hajo’s offence? Drawing parallels…

Here is an excellent article by Tony Judt. Judt is someone who could be called a non-Zionist, a free-thinker who has rejected many of the accepted nostrums of Zionism. Unsurprisingly, he too has been accused by the misnamed Anti-Defamation League of anti-Semitism and a speech of his cancelled as a result of the efforts of…

When approached by a student who attacked Zionism, Dr. King responded: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism.” Encounter, (December 1969), p. 24. Source: Seymour Martin Lipset, “The Socialism of Fools—The Left, the Jews and Israel,” Most of us have come across this fraudulent quotation, for which there is absolutely no evidence.…

Brown Fears that Blair May be NextOf course it’ no surprise. New Labour’s first Prime Minister Tony Blair was and is a war criminal and his successor Gordon Brown went along with everything Blair proposed and helped finance it. So it’s no surprise that the Calvinist Brown wants to give a free pass to Israeli…

The message from the film organisers, is that the Tel Aviv Film Festival is ‘a unique cultural and social means to presenting a different Israel to the world, [an] Israel which supports and invests in pluralism, culture and equal opportunity.” is a dead give-away. No amount of Israeli films can change Israel’s reality as far…

An excellent biop in Haaretz by S.Rachlevsky, a prominent Israeli author and commentator, regarding the role of religion in driving the State to the Right, and how even those considered beyond the pale, like Rabbi Haim Druckman MK, are now considered ‘moderate’ by their fellows. What is also interesting is that in the West the…

This is a great victory. The international campaign against Zionist lawlessness, which results in the arrest without charge and the beating without limit of Palestinian peace activists, has forced and embarrassed even this Israeli government into releasing Mohammad Othman and Jamal Juma. Of course Israel will provide no explanation for the arrests, which were sanctioned…

The IHR’s Mark Weber Writes for Palestine ‘Thinktank’I recently broke a promise I’d made to myself and that was to post a comment on the site of the anti-Semitic Palestine Thinkthank site of Mary Rizzo. This was the site formed by her and Gilad Atzmon but the latter has now been sacked as co-editor and…

for an Unsung Hero of the Anti-Fascist Movement10.11.60 to 29.9.09. I had a phone call last summer from Dave Hann asking to interview me on my experiences in the anti-fascist movement in Brighton. It was for a book that he was in the process of writing. I was happy to see Dave and talk about…