Posts by Tony Greenstein

25 Years Fighting the Board of Deputies of British Jews I went to a meeting last night hosted by the Jewish Socialists’ Group. An excellent meeting it was on ‘Policing, Surveillance and Community Security’. Liz Davies and Kat Craig of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, who represented students in cases arising from recent demonstrations…

Mubarak Down and the Army Generals Must Be Next One can only stand in awe and admiration of the Egyptian masses for achieving the overthrow of the dictator Hosni Mubarak, former leader of the most important US client in the region after Israel. Their bravery and endurance is as remarkable as is their suffering. A…

Israel’s Knesset to Hold Debate on Cultural Boycott News comes from the Alternative Information Centre in Jerusalem that the Knesset is to hold its first discussion of the cultural boycott. The wave of boycotts by artists – from Santana to Elvis Costello – Israelis are beginning to get the message that the civilised world doesn’t…

Ahmad Sa’adat is a Political Prisoner Jailed for the ‘Crime’ of Resisting the Occupation Ahmad Sa’adat is the imprisoned leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in a military trial for the ‘crime’ of having led the resistance to the Israeli Occupation. Resistance is, of…

“He may be a barbarian, but he’s our barbarian”. Thus spoke John Rothmann, a former President of the Zionist Organization of America, now a talk show host for KGO radio in San Francisco. It is of course a paraphrase of FDR’s description of Somoza, the dictator of Nicaragua and Israel’s good friend: ‘he may be…

It is difficult to understand the mentality of someone who deliberately destroys the access of an occupied civilian to that most basic of necessities – water. But then we know that given their Nazi-like mentality, the settlers consider the Palestinians as less than human. In this they are not alone of course. The Israeli State…

The Half-Finished Revolutions The Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt are beginning to look like half-completed revolutions. The tyrants themselves have either been forced to flee or promises not to continue in office but the structure of state power and in particular the armed forces have not so far been dismantled. That is the task of…

Puppet Palestinian Authority Security Services Stage their own Demonstration Against Al-Jazeera to Protest at the Leaking of 1,600 Documents on the ‘Negotiations’ with Israel No one is more afraid and upset by the revolution in Egypt than the Quisling Palestinian Authority and the Fateh/PLO leaders. After all, as the Palestine papers show, they were in…

Mubarak ‘Our Democratic Friend’ – Jo Biden, US Vice President Jo Biden, the vacuous Vice-President of the USA, a position that Harry Truman once described as not being worth a bucket of warm spit, just doesn’t get it. He couldn’t understand the grouse of the Egyptian people. Why they didn’t like going hungry whilst the…

This is an important article by well respected Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah who was granted access to the 1,600 documents that were leaked to Al Jazeera. The article analyses how Obama has reneged even on the Bush administration’s pathetically weak Road Map and effectively accepts the Israeli position of a swap of peoples, i.e. Israeli…