Posts by Tony Greenstein

Why do we need to define anti-Semitism? The Political Uses of Anti-Semitism There is an excellent article today (for once) in Tuesday’s ‘i’ – by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, one of Britain’s few decent mainstream columnists. Defining Islamaphobia is dubious. (the online version is We need to be able to criticise Islam – any definition of Islamophobia must recognise…

The Jewish Chronicle conducts an Opinion Poll to test the effectiveness of its propaganda against Jeremy Corbyn! Every week I get an Editor’s Letter from the Jewish Chronicle and this week is no exception. Usually there is only one story affecting the British Jewish community and that is the ‘anti-Semitism’ of Jeremy Corbyn or the…

In order to prove ‘anti-Semitism’, there are no limits to the JC’s willingness to make things up For 3 years the Jewish Chronicle has pursued, under its far-Right editor Stephen Pollard, a single minded campaign to ‘prove’ that Labour is an anti-Semitic party led by an anti-Semite, Jeremy Corbyn The irony of these false accusations…

The Israeli ‘Justice’ system demonstrates once again why it is institutionally racist as Lod’s District Court endorses plea bargain In July 2015 18 month Ali Dawabshe and his parents, Saad and Reham were murdered in their beds when settlers threw petrol bombs inside their house. Only 4 year old Ahmad survived, albeit with 60% burns…

Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie: “I think the whole thing is set up to normalise the State of Israel and its disgraceful treatment of the Palestinian people. For some reason, which BBC2 Executives will no doubt rue, BBC Newsnight decided to interview Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie tonight and to ask him about Madonna’s decision to perform…

The Goebbels/Pollard Technique of Repeating a Falsehood Does Not Make it True Every week without fail there is another story in the Jewish Chronicle campaign to ‘prove’ that Jeremy Corbyn’s is anti-Semitic. Its editor, Stephen Pollard, is a former editor of the Daily Express and a member of the cold war Henry Jackson Society, a…

The Renew Party’s Racist Star Crashes to Earth in an Entirely Predictable Explosion The full versions of the above videos can be seen here andhereYou can take a horse to the water but you can’t make it drink.  You can take Yonatan Scoffman to a Party but you can’t expect him to remain house trained. You will be forgiven if…

The Holocaust Memorial Industry is reinforcing the very forces that gave rise to the Holocaust What is remarkable is that the farther away we get from the Holocaust the greater is the desire to ‘remember’ it. You might think that in the years immediately following the end of the war that American Jewry would be…

Please Help Me Ensure That I Have the Means to Continue The Fight Against the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism As you may recall, the CAA called me a ‘notorious anti-Semite’ on 5 different occasions but when it came to the Preliminary Issues Hearing on Meaning on February 14th, they argued that their libels weren’t a statement…