Posts by Tony Greenstein

The facts behind the latest witch-hunt, of Jenna Delich, a Business Studies tutor at The Sheffield College are quite clear. Ms Delich, quite inadvertently, posted a short message on the activist list of the University & College Union [UCU] which referred to an article written in 2006 by Joe Quinn The article ‘Racism, not Defence,…

The sea blockade was broken yesterday when 2 ships with Palestine solidarity activists and goods aboard docked in Gaza. The reactions of the Israeli state were that however much they huffed and they puffed they didn’t want another public relations disaster. Maybe Georgia was too recently on their mind!! Or maybe they didn’t want to…

Meeting the natives like any good Orientalist A little light entertainment. A worthy sounding organisation, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, led by a certain Dr Ed Beck, recently launched a petition in support of a Salah Shoaib Choudhury, a Bangladeshi who supports the Israeli state and who has been arrested and charged with…

Below is an excellent article by David Klein on the efforts of one academic to gain Norman Finkelstein an academic position at his own university, California State University. And we also see, in the bastion of ‘freedom’ how the Zionist lobby and their friends set about preventing Finkelstein obtaining a post. We also learn about…

We all know it of course, that there are 2 laws in the apartheid state of Israel and its territories – one for Arabs and another for Jews. No Jewish houses of terrorists have ever been demolished nor Jews killed by live fire on demonstrations, but it’s still nice to have them admit it themselves.…

Western governments are telling their respective citizens that the financial support they give to the Palestinian Authority (PA) is used to foster security and promote democracy, human rights and the rule of law in the occupied territories. These governments might also be deluding themselves into thinking that the often harsh repression meted out by the…

One city, two peoples By Lily Galili For three years, the official documents of the Prime Minister’s Office have referred to Upper Nazareth as “code No. 20,” a designation for ethnically mixed cities. This definition is not meant to say that together, Nazareth and Upper Nazareth constitute a mixed city. Rather, it describes a situation…

Jew’s visit to the territory left him ashamed by what he saw Harry Shannon The Hamilton Spectator I had expected conditions in Gaza to be bad, but I was still shocked at the devastation when I went there in July. Last month my companion and I entered Gaza at the Erez crossing through a modern…

When Norman Finkelstein wrote his Holocaust Industry, it was savaged by the Zionist ideologues for its argument that the Zionist movement had conducted a war of extortion against Swiss Banks for monies that it intended to ensure never went to the Holocaust survivors. It must be a source of great satisfaction to Norman that his…

I was recently contacted by members of Exeter Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Exeter Socialists about an invitation which was extended to the well-known anti-Semite Gilad Atzmon, to speak at their event. I had previously resisted the entreaties of Atzmon groupies who were so dazzled by the defence of Atzmon by Roy Ratcliffe that they wanted…