Posts by Tony Greenstein

About 10 days ago I read a quote from (Sir) Richard Dalton, Britain’s former Ambassador to Iran, saying how we, i.e. Britain, couldn’t ignore repression in Iraq and had to support those on the streets of Tehran. Well this was late at night, or rather early in the morning, and I became even more irritated…

Udi Aloni, an internationally recognised Israeli Film Maker and the son of Shulamit Aloni, founder of the Citizens Rights Party (Ratz), whose film Forgiveness was the winner of the Audience Award at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2006, has written an important article ‘Why we support the non-violent BDS Movement’ for which is on Ynet,…

Albert Einstein is, of course, one of the most famous Jewish people of the modern era. Someone who almost singlehandedly rewrote traditional concepts of physics. Indeed the Nazis, from whose regime he fled in 1933, being somewhat thick and dumb at the best of times, termed relativity and Einstein’s theorems ‘Jewish Physics’ which just about…

Egypt Threatens to Break Promise to Allow Viva Palestina Convoy into Gaza I have just received this from Scottish PSC. It would seem that having tricked the members of the convoy to taking a boat to the Syrian port of Latakia and then down to El Arish, the regime of Egyptian dictator Mubarak is now…

Two young men from Bil’in arrested on 29 December 2009 still held by Israeli military This is a Report from the International Solidarity Movement on the village of Bil’in, which has been subject to unremitting violence from the Israeli army in an attempt to provoke violent resistance and at the same time to destroy the…

Why a Jewish State cannot be a Democratic State To the argument of ‘left’ Zionists that Israel is both a Jewish and a Democratic State, one merely needs to point to the issue of land. Without exception, land is confiscated from one section, Arabs, and given for the use of Jews. Quasi Autonomous National Organisations…

The Hypocrisy of Mapam – the ‘left’ Zionist Party Gideon Spiro, an Israel journalist, a founder of the refusenik soldiers group Yesh Gvul (there is a limit) and an anti-occupation activist, was asked to contribute some reminiscences to a volume of recollections to be printed to mark the 80th anniversary of the Merhavia Kibbutz. What…

Anti-Semitic web site SUPPORTS Mubarak’s attempt to Destroy Viva Palestina and the Gaza Freedom March For those who doubt where racism of any kind, anti-Semism included, leads, one has to read the article from the so-called Palestine Thinkthank that Gilad Atzmon and Mary Rizzo set up. Whereas 99% of the Palestine Solidarity Movement has rallied…

Let the Gaza Freedom Marchers Into Gaza Below are a series of articles on the current situation in Gaza and related issues: First is a translation of an important article from Israeli daily, Yediot Aharanot. Secondly is an article by the editor of Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, who is one of the 1,300 Gaza Freedom…