Posts by Tony Greenstein
The Road to Armageddon – Christian Zionism and End Times
All Posts One of the few genuine idiots in British public life today is the British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mervis. It is difficult to think of a more stupid fellow. I’m still amazed at his statement, in an article for the Daily Telegraph Ken Livingstone and the hard Left are spreading the insidious virus of…
Read MoreThe History of Anti-Zionism in Israel
These two tapes give a fascinating background to the formation of Matzpen, the Socialist Organisation in Israel. People like Professor Moshe Machover, recently expelled and then readmitted to the Labour Party, Akiva Orr – a leader of the unofficial Seaman’s Strike in Israel in 1951 and a background to the Israeli Labour Party and Histadrut,…
Read MoreEric 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…
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