Posts by Tony Greenstein

Dr. Haidar Eid, The Electronic Intifada, 22 January 2009 “Where can I bring him a father from? Where can I bring him a mother from? You tell me!” These are the desperate words of Subhi Samuni to Al-Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent. Subhi lost 17 members of his immediate family, including the parents of his seven-year-old grandson.…

This article by Tony Greenstein first appeared in Electronic Intifada. Histadrut has always been a strange creature. In most countries one joins a trade union which is affiliated to a national trade union federation. In Israel one first joins Histadrut and then one is allocated to a union. It is only outside Israel that Histadrut…

After the attack by Egyptian state thugs on the convoy on the night of Sunday 8th March, it is pleasing to note that convoy has finally got through to Gaza. Below there is a report of the attack and also news that the convoy has got through. Yvonne Ridley reports from Viva Palestina 9th March…

Well fancy that! In an irony too delicious for mere words and in a story barely covered in the Western media, an arms cache was recently discovered in a Jewish synagogue, Hod Sharon, in Israel. The arms, contrary to the suggestion in Israel’s right-wing Yediot Aharanot, belonged to the main Zionist terrorist group, Haganna. The…

Throughout Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Gaza, the standard response of Zionists was that opponents of Israel’s barbarism supported Hamas, the effective Government of Gaza. In fact this is and always a deliberate misrepresentation. We support the right of the Palestinian people to elect the Government of their choice – something the Western ‘democracies’ fail…

In the attack on Gaza, Israel’s war criminal leadership claimed that its use of phosphorous was only a ‘smokescreen’. In fact their ‘explanations’ were the smokescreen for a tissue of lies and deceptions. Below the respect reporter for Israel’s Ha’aretz daily paper, Amira Hass, describes just how lethal white phosphorous is and that people are…

More good news. The Boycott movement has even reached the decision makers in the Foreign Office! After much pressure, the British embassy has put an end to plans to rent Lev Leviev’s tower in Tel Aviv because of Leviev’s role in sponsoring and financing the settlements. To say nothing of his dubious dealings in African…

Shir Hever, an economist who writes for the Alternative Information Centre, has noted that Ha’aretz’s Economic Section has carried 4 articles recently about the growing effect of the Boycott movement on the Israeli economy. It’s often difficult for activists to guage the effect of what they are doing and it is easy to become disheartening.…

Sawt el-Amel Activists Lose Final Appeal in ‘Ein Mahel’ Trial. Below are reports of yet further State repression against attempts by Israeli Palestinian workers and unemployed to organise against the apartheid discrimination against them. In particular the targetting of Israeli Palestinians for the ‘Welfare to Work’ Wisconsin Plan which was first developed in the USA…

above Mark Gardener with the Mail’s racist columnist, Richard Littlejohn. The CST’s Well Paid Gravy Train We have written before about the Communist Security Thugs (Trust). This is a trust whose annual income last year £6.6m and the year before was £5.7m. After doing a bit of research, we have identified 78 Jewish charities which…