Posts by Tony Greenstein
Heating Up: The Battle for the Jewish voice and the Jewish soul
The article below is taken from the Culture Magazine site Written by David Mandelzys, Photographs by Ryan Davies Dear Mom, Dad, your Zionist friends, and Bob Dylan too, I’ve got news for you all: The times they are a changin’! Remember last Passover? Remember when we sat around the Seder table and listened to you…
Read MoreCan they Sink Any Lower – PHR-Israel issues public protest after its employee is unfairly interrogated and intimidated by the General Security Service
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel update 3.6.08 On Monday, May 26, Physicians for Human Rights sent a letter to the head of the GSS, Yuval Diskin, in which the heads of the organization protest the attempt by the General Security Service to harm the organization’s work and warn against the attempt to influence its policy and…
Read MoreUniversities & College Union Passes Motion Encouraging Academics to ‘consider the moral and political implications of educational links with Israeli i
Because of the fierce political and legal attack on them the UCU has had to carefully phrase any motion on the boycott of Israeli academia. Although by no means the best we would desire, the motion below goes a long way to putting Boycott back on the agenda and turning the focus on those who…
Read MoreThe London Independent Spikes Mark Steel Article about the Raytheon 9
The Evidence Mounts That Some Things Aren’t Fair, By Mark Steel. There’s a trial currently taking place in Belfast, that seems to explain plainly how nothing makes any sense. It revolves around a factory owned by the arms company Raytheon, which was set up in Derry soon after the IRA ceasefire. John Hume, who’d just…
Read MoreENGAGE Hypocrites Support Finkelstein’s Arrest & Deportation
Engage is a site set up by David Hirsh, John Strawson and other Zionists in order to fight the academic boycott of Israeli universities. Not surprisingly, one of their most avid supporters is Gilad Atzmon, who also opposes the academic boycott as ‘book burning’. Last weekend, Norman Finkelstein, the anti-Zionist Jewish academic and author, was…
Read MorePetition to Suspend the EU-Israeli Trade Agreement
“The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything”.Albert Einstein “I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented“.Elie…
Read MoreLoving Jesus, fearing the neighbors in Ariel
What an outrage. Jews 4 Jesus and other loonies support the settlers 100%. They have no problem with bombing and murdering Palestinians yet, despite this, they are the target of racists who also despise Christianity. It’s difficult to know whether to laugh or cry!! Instead of appreciating all the help and support that Christian Zionism…
Read MoreEvangelicals urge police to act on harassment of messianic Jews – By Daphna Berman
A sad report in Ha’aretz. Don’t the settlers know that only the Palestinians should be the target of terrorism and bombings? Unfortunately it’s not that simple. The Christian missionaries, who have no problems with bombing Palestinian homes, can’t understand why they should be the targets of Zionist terror simply because they want to convert settler…
Read MoreOrthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Or Yehuda
Now I guess my first response to this story was, well they had it coming. Christian bigots who support the Israeli state and its oppression of the Palestinians, are hardly the first claimants on our sympathy. If anyone has it coming then they are prime candidates. Those who welcome Armaggedon can hardly complain when they…
Read MoreDid Hezbollah Thwart an Attack on Lebanon?
By Franklin Lamb in BeirutThe Palestinian Chronicle17.5.08 This week Israel`s Military Intelligence Chief Major General Amos Yadlin complained to the Israeli daily Haaretz that `Hezbollah proved that it was the strongest power in Lebanon… stronger than the Lebanese and it had wanted to take the government it could have done it.` He said Hezbollah continued…
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