Posts by Tony Greenstein

People will probably not remember Allan Boesak, a leader of the Coloureds in South Africa, who were caught between the full apartheid experienced by Black people and the racial discrimination meted out to those who weren’t white. He was brought down by a sex scandal, being a member of the clergy at the time, which…

The Holocaust as a Political Weapon and an Extortion Racket The Zionists must rue the day they put one Prof. Charny in debate with Norman Finkelstein as it was embarrassing to watch him crushed. But then maybe that is small justice. Norman Finkelstein paid a heavy price for telling the truth about how the holocaust…

Why have I published this? Because I want to see a democratic, secular, state in Palestine. Some will say it undermines the Palestinian cause. Nonsense. You cannot oppose Zionist religious fundamentalism and support its Islamic counterpart. Of course there are massive differences . One is the product of weakness, the other of power. But Political…

The South African Jewish Community distinguished itself in 2 ways – it was the most slavish community in support of Israel in the world. And secondly it slavishly supported Apartheid until the final hours when it finally tried to take back into the fold those they had excommunicated for their anti-Apartheid activities – people like…

Media Bury Documents Revealing Israel’s Deliberate Policy Of Near-Starvation For Gaza Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”. An Israeli human rights group has…

Publish It Not Jonathan Cook The Link – Volume 43, Issue 5 – November – December 2010 In the mid-1990s, I arrived in Jerusalem for the first time–then as a tourist–with the potent Western myth at the front of my consciousness: that of Israel as “a light unto the nations,” the plucky underdog facing a…

Israel Demolishes Mosque in Jordan ValleyNovember 28th, 2010 | by TheOnlyDemocracy Below is an al Jazeera video of Israel pulling down a mosque in the Jordan Valley village of Khirbat Yarza, Tubas, yesterday morning (deep inside the West Bank). Over 60% of the Jordan Valley in the West Bank is under “Israeli control”, though in…

Hamas – Speaking With a Forked Tongue Publically it won’t recognise Israel but Diplomatically it accepts 2 States An important interesting article by veteran Palestinian activist and academic, Haidar Eid. Whereas in the West there is a pretence to maintain, that Hamas wishes to wipe out all Jews, refuses to accept Israel etc., the reality…

Further commentary on this racist American Rabbi, who is you should note not an Israeli, is superflous. Tony Greenstein Leading rabbi says Europe risks being ‘overrun’ by Islam ANDREW RETTMAN 30.11.2010 CET EUOBSERVER / JERUSALEM One of the luminaries of the international Jewish community, Rabbi David Rosen, has warned that Europe risks being “overrun” by…

McCarthyites Seek to Stifle the Palestinians’ MessageNGO Monitor is one of those nasty little Zionist McCarthyite organisations that was set up to try and stifle the Palestinian message to the West. It is no accident that it has targetted the funding of Electronic Intifada, in just the same way as the Israeli government is targetting…