Posts by Tony Greenstein

British Royal Family’s good friend, the King of Bahrain, launches wave of terror, torture and massacre against Protestors We have all heard about the terrible things done by the Syrian regime under Assad, and the torture and mutilation of a 13 year old boy, Hamza al-Khatib. But about Bahrain, there is virtual silence. Not only…

An important book. Gilbert Achcar’s ‘The Arabs & the Holocaust’ looks at the relationship of the Arabs and Palestinians to the Nazis . It demolishes a number of myths the Zionists have built up around the holocaust, such as the ‘fact’ that the Arabs and Palestinians were overwhelmingly sympathetic to the Nazis. Have reviewed it…

German guards oversee the assembly of Jews in Kamenets-Podolsk prior to their transportation to a site outside of the city for execution No to Israeli ‘Numerus Clausus’ Laws In September 1922 the Numerus Clausus Act was enacted in Hungary. It restricted Jewish participation in the universities to the same percentage that the Jews had amongst…

‘Go Back to Tel Aviv’ the Zionism of AtzmonismI can’t say I’ve ever heard of Colin Bell but he wrote to me at an e-mail address associated with this blog, but which I rarely use. So there was a delay in responding. He asked me what I had to fear from Atzmon and I replied…

Once Again Shaher Saeed Sabotages Solidarity Action Abroad Once again the unelected leader of PGFTU has been allowed to sabotage solidarity action in other countries. Saeed is the trade union version of Mahmoud Abbas, always willing to dance to Israel’s tune. The question is how long Palestinian trade unionists are prepared to allow a quisling…

Remind Dylan That Money Doesn’t Talk It Only Swears Further to my previous report on Dylan’s performance in Israel, there is news of his only concert in Britain 2 days before. Dylan is the headline act of the first day of Feis 2011 Festival in Finsbury Park. See Yael Khan reports that they are planning…

UCU Defies Threats and Blackmail Wonderful news from UCU. The European Union Monitoring Committee Report on Anti-Semitism, which came from the American Jewish Committee, a group which opposed another Boycott in the 1930’s – the trade union & Jewish labour movement boycott of Nazi Germany – has repeatedly been used as a weapon deployed against…

As the Mayor asked them to stay Haganna bombed the Market The story below speaks for itself. I grew up, as the son of an Orthodox Rabbi, in a religious Zionist family. When the original fable of the Arabs running away, rather than being expelled, was first told, I can remember it being emphasised that…

Greenwash will no longer wash away the Crimes of the Jewish National Fund They must have hoped that no one would notice. One day the JNF listed David Cameron as a patron and the next day he was gone! If only all our victories could come as sweetly as this! Of course, as Cameron’s spokesperson…

I have to make a confession. I’ve been a Dylan aficionado for most of my life. Together with the Beatles, Stones and Simon and Garfunkel he defined the ‘60s musically for me. He was the child of the civil rights movement, who played at the Washington March for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, the year…