Posts by Tony Greenstein

Below is an example of the horrific oppression that Palestinian workers experience in Israel. Histadrut, the apartheid ‘union’ for Jewish workers, has consistently ignored and turned a blind eye to such attacks. Although they were happy to deduct, in conjunction with the Israeli Labour Exchanges, 1% of the workers’ wages, they always refused as a…

700 Doctors call for Dr Blachar, head of the Israeli Medical Association, to quit as President of World Medical Association Blachar is like the 3 wise monkeys – he neither sees, hears nor speaks of torture in Israel. According to his letter (below) to the British Medical Association torture ‘does not exist” in Israel. According…

It is one of those myths beloved of the settler-colonial that the natives want nothing more than to drive the settlers into the sea, murder them in their beds, eat their babies…. But the phrase about ‘driving the Jews into the sea’ has a particular resonance amongst Zionist apologists. But now we have the truth…

One of the most tireless campaigners for Palestinian rights and against Israeli Apartheid, Victoria Buch, sadly passed away 3 days ago. She was the editor of the Occupation Magazine, an essential source of information on Israel’s repressive policies. Tony Greenstein Our friend and co-editor, Victoria Buch, has passed away22/6/09 We have the sad duty to…

UN torture watchdog demands accessBy Jonathan Cook in Nazareth18 May 2009 Jonathan Cook reports on evidence of a secret Israeli prison – described by an Israeli human rights group as an even grosser violation of international law than Guantanamo – where Arab and Muslim prisoners, including Palestinians, are systematically tortured. The United Nation’s watchdog on…

Threatened with gaol for opposing the demolition of Bedouin houses Ezra Nawi is an unusual Israeli. Of Iraqi descent, gay and a persistent opponent of the occupation and Israeli racism. When the Israeli military went into action against the Bedouin of South Hebron he stood in the way of a bulldozer. He was arrested and…

A very interesting article. Left-Zionists always make great play of the supposed support for 2 States in Israel itself, despite the fact that they keep voting for people opposed to such a concept. The articles below, and the excellent introduction to the first, need no further additionTony Greenstein Israeli left-Zionists and people like Uri Avnery…

The two articles below demonstrate more clearly than anything the racism of Zionist settler-colonialism. The Galilee, where the majority of the population is still Arab, has been subject over the years to continued policies of ‘Judaification’. The equivalent in other places best left unnamed was ‘deJewification.’ Such is the logic of Zionism. And of course…

A quite remarkable story about the establishment of a holocaust museum in the Palestinian village of Na’alin. Na’alin has been the centre of the struggle against the Apartheid Wall. But then it has always been the case that it is the oppressed who are able to reach out and understand and the oppressor who can…