Posts by Tony Greenstein

The Boycott motion at the British Universities & Colleges Union began the movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions in 2005. Then it called down a hail of fire from the pro-Zionist lobby. This year it has passed with barely a murmur, although the National Secretary, Sally Hunt, declared it was unlawful, the moral victory is…

Below is an article from Haaretz which displays the racist and genocidal beliefs of Chabad (Lubavitch) a Hasidic sect, in all its murderous glory. This is the reality behind all the talk of ‘peace’ and ‘2 states’. The growing support for a ‘radical’ solution in Palestine. It was Rabbis such as Friedman who provided the…

New Labours Death Agony Twelve years ago, I wrote a pamphlet ‘The Noble Sayings of Lord Bassam’. Lord Bassam was a minor star in the New Labour firmament, one of those people who were willing to junk all they had professed to believe in for the same of personal advancement. Principle was not a word…

Mary Rizzo is the indefatiguable helper and accomplice of notorious anti-Semite Gilad Atzmon, with whom she runs the Palestine Thinktank. Indeed she is a friend and supporter of any and all the anti-Semites hovering on the fringes of the Palestine solidarity movement – Israel Shamir, Paul Eisen, Atzmon of course. And on the blogs she…

Those who don’t live in the UK may not be aware of the past 3 scandal-driven weeks in Britain. Whole swathes of politicians have been caught, literally, with their hands in the till. Now no-one expects the Tories to be anything other than a gang of crooks and shysters. After all that is in the…

“Racism in the soccer stadiums is nothing new, but this time players [of Betar Jerusalem] and among them also members of the Israeli national team joined in the racist chants [of the fans].” This is written on the web site of the Israeli TV station Channel 2 and one can see there also the report…

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign recently scored a notable success when it shamed the organisers of the Edinburgh Festival to handing back £300 blood money from the Israeli Embassy. Ken Loach makes it clear that the Cultural Boycott is NOT about boycotting individual Israels because they are Israelis. The Boycott is about the State of Israel,…

Not content with having driven ¾ million Palestinian Arabs from their homes and country, Israel’s fascist Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, of the Yisrael Beteinu Party has proposed outlawing commemoration of the Nakba. Just as the far-right and their idiot supporters like Gilad Atzmon like to pretend that the Nazi holocaust never happened [it was a…

Edwin Black, who has written an excellent book on the Nazi-Zionist Transfer Agreement (Haavarah), which broke the anti-Nazi Boycott of Germany, has also written extensively on how US capitalism supported Hitler and in particular on the nefarious role of IBM, which had a site in every major concentration camp. Without IBM the Nazis would not…