Posts by Tony Greenstein
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History This is an interesting essay on the most formidable of all British historians, the late Eric Hobsbawm and his evolution. Hobsbawm was of course a historian faithful to the Communist Party and suffered a great deal of criticism on that score. Richard Evans article is extremely perceptive and well…
Read MoreWhat kind of State blackmails people – no hospital treatment if your relatives don’t ‘return’ to Gaza?
Israel’s sick morality – it’s a crime for Palestinians to move to the West Bank and we will punish your sick relatives for their ‘crime Nothing Israel does should be of any surprise. The small, petty cruelties such as denying people essential medical treatment because their relatives have refused to return from the West Bank…
Read MoreWeaponizing Medical Treatment to Keep Palestinians Divided
Amira Hass Israel says 15-year-old girl can’t leave Gaza for tests ‘until her brothers return, and her story is no exception Imagine that the Interior Ministry prohibits your relative from receiving essential medical care in Tel Aviv, because you – contrary to the policies of increasing the Jewish population in the outlying areas and…
Read MoreIn Israel – torture is a standard interrogation technique for use on Palestinians
When Emily Thornberry claims that Israel is a democratic state then she is deliberately turning a blind eye to its routine use of torture
Read MoreBrighton & Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign Bids Farewell to a Brave Fighter After a Lifetime of Struggle
Expelled from the Labour Party for having opposed a criminal war Riad never stopped fighting https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=BzHNnxmgyEY Yesterday we gathered at Clayton Woods Burial Ground near Hassocks to pay our respects to a longstanding Iraqi comrade, Riad El-Taher. It was a cold, rainy and windy November day and the weather reflected how we felt as the…
Read MoreAt last – the truth about Kafr Qasem – the village in which Israel murdered 51 people
The massacre at Kafr Qasem was supposed to be the Prelude to Transfer Photographs of Victims of the Massacre at Kafr Qasem On October 29 1956, on the eve of the Suez War and Israel’s attack on Egypt, martial law was declared in the Arab village of Kafr Qasem on the border with Jordan. The…
Read MoreIntroducing Sussex Friends of Israel & their ‘Code of Conduct’ – all Hate & No Love
The Combination of Jewish Supremacists and Christian Zionists is a Toxic Brew A few weeks ago I did a blog about the decision by Sussex Friends of Israel to abandon their pitch in Brighton’s New Road and instead go to the Clocktower where they do their best to try and disrupt the activities of…
Read MoreLobby Labour’s National Executive Committee Tuesday November 27th 11.00-1.00 105 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6QT
The Witchhunt Has Not Gone Away- Oppose the IHRA, Reinstate those Expelled under McNicol’s Terror The Witchhunt might have slowed down now and the era of instant suspensions at the drop of a hat is now, hopefully, over, but the witch hunt has still not gone away. People are still being suspended and people…
Read MoreThe Zionist War on Free Speech – The IHRA is Being Used to Chill Free Speech NOT Combat Anti-Semitism
Twitter’s Twisted Values – Telling anti-Zionist Jews They Should have Died in Auschwitz is Fine – Comparing the Siege of Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto is ‘Hate Speech’ Robert Festenstein of Jewish Human Rights Watch stars in a Tommy Robinson propaganda film The Zionist movement in Britain today is a threat to free speech.…
Read MoreMassive BDS Victory – Airbnb Drops Stolen Settlements
The decision of Airbnb to no longer advertise or engage with West Bank settlements is extremely welcome in making it clear to those who live on stolen land that their theft and destruction of Palestinian lands will never be forgotten or accepted. Historically Zionism has always created ‘facts on the ground’ and then sought normalisation. …
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