Posts by Tony Greenstein

Above an example of the exquisite art of the Hebron settler – ‘Arabs to the crematoria’ and the graffitti that Israeli soldiers left behind in Gaza. Below is an article from Israeli daily Yediot Aharanot describing some of the ‘art’ that Israel’s model soldiers left in their wake. Tony Greenstein IDF soldiers leave racist graffiti…

An Israeli comments on the article below and its use of language: The rendering in Haaretz of the graffiti left in Gaza by Israeli soldierswent through curious mutations.The straightforward translation is “We came to exterminate you“. At first the online English version of Ha’aretz rendered this as “We came to slaughter you!”. But when I…

It’s good to see that Canadian trade union CUPE and the Ontario University Workers Co-ordinating Committee have come out in support of a Boycott of Israel and all its works. Below is a message of supporting welcoming their decision, from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). Tony Greenstein 25…

“We actually don’t have any other way to exercise international pressure except calling our friends and supporters in the trade unions around the globe to call for this Boycott and Divestment.” stated Manawel Issa Abdellal, member of the Executive Committee of the 250 thousand member Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) in a recent…

One of the most oft-repeated criticisms of blogs like this is that you mustn’t compare Zionism and Israel to anything the Nazis did. Of course the Zionists do so with regular monotony, but we mustn’t do it. What Israel and Nazi Germany both forbade Jews from marrying non-Jews, as Hannah Arendt noted when the Prosecutor…

Here is the received wisdom of another of those who Yeshayahu Leibowitz termed ‘Judeo Nazis. This time the Halacha, the body of Jewish law – written and oral – is cited in support of his argument by Rabbi Avner as is Maimonides. Maimonides, denounced to the French Inquisition by fellow rabbis and who sought refuge…

Israeli politics cannot be compared with those in western capitalist democracies like Britain. The terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ are not the same in Israeli politics as elsewhere. In the West they bear some relationship to class, New Labour notwithstanding. The left has represented, in however distorted a fashion, the interests of the working class and…

Reports of the attack on a synagogue on 1st February in Caracas, Venezuela give one a sense of déjà vu. Whenever a radical, anti-American regime comes to the fore in South or Central America, you can be sure that it is going to be accused of ‘anti-Semitism’. This is an old theme with a long…

Below is a moving open letter to Israel’s President asking that his grandfather’s name, Moshe Brajtberg, is removed from the database of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Propaganda Museum. What is particularly shameful is that not once, ever, has Yad Vashem spoken out about the atrocities visited on the Palestinian or Lebanese population as a result…

I have been contacted by Bernie Regan asking that his personal e-mail address be removed from the memo he sent round to selected members of PSC asking them to support stuffing PSC’s Executive with Socialist Action and Communist League members. I’m happy to do so. But perhaps Bernie could comment on information I’ve just received…