Posts by Tony Greenstein
It will take more than looks to love Sodastream
The face of Scarlett Johansson aims to Prettify Occupation Another great demo outside Ecostream today. We all know that Sodasteam’s a toxic brand, profiteering from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land. It was bizarre to hear the local mad Zionists shouting ‘Oxfam is a toxic brand’ because Oxfam had the good sense to drop Scarlett Johansson…
Read MoreA recent Boycott Protest in ADA Against Soda Stream
Brighton PSC Demonstrate in ASDA’s (Walmart) Brighton Marina store Like most big superstores, ASDA has no ethics other than making another fast buck. They have no problem with sourcing goods from the settlements, knowing full well that thousands of Palestinians in 5 villages were evicted from the Maale Adumim area where Sodastream is based in order to…
Read MorePalestine Solidarity Campaign AGM 2014
Hugh Lanning – Chair of PSC Solidarity with Abbas & the PA is solidarity with Israel – PSC has to choose between the collaborators or the oppressed Tony Greenstein asking a question about the Annual Accounts It was over 31 years ago, that a group of us decided for form the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Most of those…
Read MoreThe End of Palestine or the End of Norman Finkelstein?
The Madness of King Norman Once Upon a Time the brightest star in the firmament was Norman Finkelstein. With his prodigious academic talents he put to flight all those he conquered. It was Norman Finkelstein, more than anyone else, who exposed the forgery of Joan Peter’s From Time Immemorial which went from adulatory reviews in…
Read MoreBoycott Goes International
Britain’s main Jewish Boycott Group Boycott goes prime-time in Israel As people can see Boycott is going international with campaigns springing up across Europe and even causing ructions in the Italian Jewish community. Also Israel’s most popular Channel 2 Channel devoted a whole programme to it. Israelis are worried. What ‘degitimisation’ means is a refusal…
Read MoreWhy Israel Doesn’t Want Peace
It is often taken as given that Israel wants peace. In a sense it does, but it is the peace of the vanquished. Peace on its terms. The failure of the current talks is predictable. Netanyahu doesn’t want any agreement. He therefore continues to add conditions which even Abbas has difficulty selling. Zionism has always…
Read MoreThe Most Obnoxious Participant in the Demonstrations Against Sodastream
An Odball Named Shaike Rozanski His name is shaike Rozanski although at first I though he was referred to as ‘shaker’ on account of his unusual mannerisms. His appalling behaviour, although no doubt typical of the average Israeli settler (note – not the average Israeli) even casts the JDL’s Simon Cobb’s in a (relatively) good…
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Gaza fishermen suffer 85 percent income loss as Israeli siege, attacks continue Joe Catron , The Electronic Intifada, Gaza City 29 December 2013 Palestinian fishermen bring their catches ashore at the port in Gaza City. (Mohammed Asad / APA images) Fishing Boat poses real threat to Israeli warship On 17 December, Palestinian fishermen and their…
Read MoreThe Attacks on the Christian Village of Tel Rumeida
Only in a Police State do the Police Arrest The Victims of the attacks of Thugs tel rumeida Words can’t describe how the Christian Palestinians of Tel Rumeida (whose disperson our fundamentalists here support who are attacked by the neo-Nazi settlers of Kiryat Arba (where the supporters of Meir Kahane are extremely strong) are arrested…
Read More3 Videos in Which Simon Cobbs Makes A Fool of Himself
Simon Cobbs of Sussex Friends of Israel – a common and garden thug who poses as an intellectual The Israeli who is concerned about Assad killing Syrian children (presumably only Israel has a monopoly on killing) who knows full well that the West militarised a popular struggle against Assad, is the director of a security company…
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