Posts by Tony Greenstein

sd sd sd On April 6th, at the Sunday Times Literary Festival, a debate took place between David Aaronovitch (& fellow war-monger Nick Cohen) and Gilad Atzmon. Choosing between warmongering imperialists and an anti-Semite might seem like a choice between the devil and the deep-blue sea. However, given the choice between those who acted as…

Wonderful News From Scotland As expected, following the Scottish TUC delegation to Israel, the Scottish TUC has voted to support a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel and to review its links with the Zionists’ Apartheid Union next year. Now is the time for Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Britain to come off the…

df df df df df df df df df df df The Charity Commission is officially a non-governmental organisation. A quango in short. It comprises the good and the great, and like the BBC, is stuffed with conservative gentlemen (& a few ladies) who are eager to do the Government’s bidding. The Charity Commission is…

One of the distinguishing features of 1984 was Newsspeak. Black is White, Lies are Truth. Under Bike Fanatic Matt Seaton [how can anyone write 3 books on the machines?] the Guardian’s CIF has moved decisively in the direction of the Israel Lobby. And who has he hired but David Toube, the slick city solicitor who…

When the Zionist state was in the making, the main campaign of the Histadrut ‘trade union’ was for the Boycott of Arab Labour (Jewish Labour), i.e. the exclusion of Arabs from workplaces owned by Jews. It opposed all forms of workers solidarity. Today that policy has been extended into nearly all forms of state employment…

It’s one of life’s few delights, prick the tender skin of a censor and the same bureaucratic language comes forth. And none come more delightful than a Grauniad censor, puffed up with the best of liberal conscience and well-meaning sentiment. But at the end of the day, even the most ‘liberal’ censor is, well, still…

One of the aspects of the Israeli attack on Gaza that received little publicity this year was the razing to the ground of Gaza University. Of course for the Zionists, any aspect of public or civil life in Gaza was a ‘terrorist’ target, since the people of Gaza – all of them – were likewise…

The Guardian’s Comment is Free was one of the first newspaper Internet blogs. When it was set up a few years ago, it deliberately courted controversy under editor Georgina Henry. For example it became the site of the launch of Independent Jewish Voices in the UK. The Zionists were outraged and soon pressure was applied,…

df df df df df df df df df df df df df Israel continues to experience the fall-out from their genocidal attack on Gaza. As the articles below demonstrate, the devastation wreaked upon Jabaliya refugee camp is worse than anyone can have imagined. The time for talk and appeasement has passed. As the Israeli…

dfdf dfdf dff fff Well for once the Israeli Army held an ‘Inquiry’ without being asked. Of course it was forced to do so by the spate of revelations by its soldiers of the atrocities that it had committed, such as directing a woman down the wrong road and then executing her and her child…