Posts by Tony Greenstein

The Jewish Chronicle takes pride in its position as one of the oldest Jewish newspapers in the world. It also describes itself as the voice of British Jewry, though a more accurate description would be the voice of the Jewish Establishment in Britain, which today is overwhelmingly pro-Zionist. Following the lead of papers like the…

Re: The Rights of Palestinian Refugees and the Final Status Negotiations Dear Mr. President, Greetings of Return We, the undersigned Palestinian refugee organizations, civil society movements and institutions in the Palestinian homeland and in exile are national organizations working to defend the right of return. We appeal to you now because we are convinced that…

Paul McCartneyWaterfall EstateStarvecrow LanePeasmarshRYETN31 6XN 9 Cavendish Road,London N18 2LU [email protected] Dear Paul, As someone who grew up in Liverpool, I read with sadness your announcement that you were playing a gig in Tel Aviv, Israel on September 25th. Your announcement is headed ‘My message is a peaceful one…’ yet the very people who are…

A very moving letter addressed to the CIA’s man in Ramallah, Mahmoud Abbas. It could have been called ‘Letter to a Quisling’ but even Quisling got to run, at least nominally, the Norwegian state during the war. Abbas runs nothing, even nominally and the more he is humiliated by the Zionists the more subservient he…

At the 2008 British Trades Union Congress, Histadrut, Israel’s apartheid ‘trade-union’ were cock a hoop. And well they might be. For the past 30 years Palestinian workers working inside Israel had ‘trade union’ dues deducted, without their permission from their pay packets. These went to the Histadrut, was founded in 1920 as the General Federation…

Below is an article of 13th September 2008 from Ha’aretz. Antony Lerman, who has come under consistent attack at the Institute of Jewish Policy Research (Stanley Kalms, founder of British retailer Dixons and an ex-Treasurer of the Conservative Party resigned because of his ideas) for the fact that he is unwilling to toe the Zionist…

Democratiya is a e-Magazine, i.e. it doesn’t exist except on the Internet. It is edited by a far-right supporter of imperialism and the Iraq war, Alan Johnson, a lecturer in an obscure Merseyside college and and a political refugee from the Alliance for Workers Liberty, a ‘Trotskyist’ group which supports the occupation of Iraq and…

Well it was an excellent meeting held by Green Left at SOAS on the subject ‘Jewish Perspectives on anti-Zionism’. (see below) A couple of Zionists, including one ‘Mad’ Mikey Ezra [MME] and a couple of friends turned up, but although one of his friends had the courage to tackle me strangely MME, was totally silent,…