Posts by Tony Greenstein

Melanie Phillips Praised by Norway’s Mass Murderer It is no accident that the anti-Muslim columnist, Melanie Phillips, who writes for the Daily Mail, the paper that supported Sir Oswald Moseley and who once described Independent Jewish Voices as ‘Jews for Genocide’ also seems to be Breivik’s favourite newspaper pundit. He quotes her no less than…

The Unholy Trinity of Zionist Newspaper Barons It is a strange thing. All the newspaper barons who have distinguished themselves by their support for Israel and Zionism are arch-crooks. There was Robert Maxwell, an avid supporter of Israel and Labour Friends of Israel who bought Israel Bonds (more often than not with the money of…

In Israel Support for a Boycott is Illegal –In Britain the Zionists Try to Prevent Boycott Being Debated Two weeks ago I blogged on a debate in London’s Southbank Centre on the Thames between Omar Barghouti and Seni Seneviratne for Boycott and Jonathan Freedland and Carol Gould. The Report was scrupulously fair and I stated…

Make Capitalism not the Working Class and Poor Pay for the Crisis Brighton has been at the forefront in developing a national anti-cuts movement. Large demonstrations of two thousand last year against the cuts and a massive four thousand school students demonstration against tuition fees and another massive demonstration of over five thousand by trade…

Community Security Trust Throws Its Weight Around Britain’s Jewish Community I have written a number of times about the Community Security Trust, a group allegedly devoted to protecting British Jews from anti-Semitism, that was set up by the Board of Deputies of British Jews. About how it manipulates and distorts statistics of anti-Semitic incidents for…

War Crimes in Bosnia It was only in the very recent past that the war crimes and genocide were committed that are in their brutality the same as those that had been committed in World War II: concentration camps, mass (execution style) killings of innocent civilians, rapes, torturing, ethnic cleansing…It happened during the Serbian aggression…

Debate At South Bank – For or Against the Cultural Boycott of Israel Tonight was one of the more unusual events. A debate at the South Bank Centre in the Purcell Room between Omar Barghouti, an Israeli Arab who founded PACBI, the Palestinian Academic Boycott Initiative and Seni Seneviratne from Sri Lanka, who were in…

Firle Beacon and Seaford Downs walk Yesterday, Saturday 9th July, about 20 of us set off on an arduous walk from Newhaven, Sussex’s only industrial town, on a walk that ended up in the Sussex village of Bishopstone. The church at Bishopstone is the oldest in Sussex, having been built at the time of the…

Update – Sunday 9th July 14.22 I have just called the Foreign & Commonwealth Office 0207 270 1500 and been told that consular assistance is being provided but I was also told by an unnamed civil servant that they had broke international law! Being referred to the Global Response Service, one Gail Johnson stated that…

Flotilla activist: Israel wanted Irish ship to sink at sea Owner of Irish ship Saorise presents photos of damaged propeller shaft, which he says was damaged in order sink ship after it had set sail for Gaza. ‘Israel only party likely to have carried out this potentially murderous act,’ he says At the time of…