Posts by Tony Greenstein

Those who don’t live in the UK may not be aware of the past 3 scandal-driven weeks in Britain. Whole swathes of politicians have been caught, literally, with their hands in the till. Now no-one expects the Tories to be anything other than a gang of crooks and shysters. After all that is in the…

“Racism in the soccer stadiums is nothing new, but this time players [of Betar Jerusalem] and among them also members of the Israeli national team joined in the racist chants [of the fans].” This is written on the web site of the Israeli TV station Channel 2 and one can see there also the report…

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign recently scored a notable success when it shamed the organisers of the Edinburgh Festival to handing back £300 blood money from the Israeli Embassy. Ken Loach makes it clear that the Cultural Boycott is NOT about boycotting individual Israels because they are Israelis. The Boycott is about the State of Israel,…

Not content with having driven ¾ million Palestinian Arabs from their homes and country, Israel’s fascist Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, of the Yisrael Beteinu Party has proposed outlawing commemoration of the Nakba. Just as the far-right and their idiot supporters like Gilad Atzmon like to pretend that the Nazi holocaust never happened [it was a…

Edwin Black, who has written an excellent book on the Nazi-Zionist Transfer Agreement (Haavarah), which broke the anti-Nazi Boycott of Germany, has also written extensively on how US capitalism supported Hitler and in particular on the nefarious role of IBM, which had a site in every major concentration camp. Without IBM the Nazis would not…

Rumours have been circulating, not least on this blog, that the SWP have finally woken up to the fact that it is useless denying that Gilad Atzmon is anti-Semitic and a holocaust denier, despite their attempts to brush it under the carpet and pretend that nothing is amiss. In the spirit of comradeliness I wrote…

An interesting book which is likely to set the cats among the pigeons. There is no doubt that Einstein was a Zionist supporter in the early 1920’s, as was Hanna Arendt. Both became more and more disillusioned as time progresssed and Einstein, as the review makes clear below, opposed the establishment of the Israeli State…

It is not well known that the early founders of Zionism were devoted adherents to the racial sciences and Eugenics in particular. People like Max Nordau and Arthur Ruppin. The following article shows how this was the accepted wisdom of the Zionist movement’s leadership. For example Ruppin, in charge of land settlement for the Jewish…

Israeli company tells Tel Aviv labour court that compensation claims of enemy workers from Gaza must not be heard in court In December 2008, Sawt el-Amel filed compensation claims on behalf of 13 workers from Gaza who used to work in the former Israeli-controlled Erez industrial zone. Since then, hundreds of men and women from…