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And now for a bit of Xmas fun. A devoted Atzmon fan, one Zarina Bhatia, decided to send to all and sundry, a eulogy to her hero. Below is my reply! Yuletide greetings to all, Tony Greenstein Dear Ms Bhatia, I have been forwarded your message below re Gilad Atzmon. I’m sure you will understand…

Never was someone more appropriately named. Bernie literally made off with the proceeds of others’ ill-gotten gains! To listen to some people the collapse of Bernie Madoff’s $50 billion dollar investment operation, in reality the world’s largest pyramid scheme, is the end of capitalism. Chance would be a fine thing. In fact it seems that…

Fig. 1 – Mark Collett caught on camera Fig. 2 – Kevin Watmough, one of those behind Redwatch Fig. 3 – The Atmon article on Redwatch. Anyone who is an activist or anti-fascist knows of the Redwatch neo-Nazi site. It specialists in printing the names, addresses and photos of anti-fascist activists with the purpose of…

On various campuses, Hillel is launching campaigns to pull funding from PIRGs (Public Interest Research Groups) because of the strongstand taken by some PIRGs around the issue of Israeli Apartheid. Hillel launched a campaign to pull funding from QPIRG McGill and, although not directly linked to Hillel, there has been an online and on campus…

One of the key arguments against a ‘2 States’ solution to the Palestinian Question has been that this would provide an incentive for the Zionists to transfer Israel’s remaining 1+ million Palestinians into the bantustan (or in reality Palestinian Reservation). We should therefore thank Israel’s Foreign Minister and leader of the ‘moderate’ Kadimah for spelling…

As in South Africa under Apartheid with the End Conscription Campaign, a small group of Israeli refuseniks, teenagers sent to support the settlers in the West Bank, have refused to serve in the oppressive Israeli Army. Below is an appeal I received today and the response when I had sent a letter. I would urge…

As people may have realised, the title of this blog has been changed from ‘Anti-Zionists Against Anti-Semites’ to ‘Tony Greenstein’s Blog’. The reason for this is that the original reason for setting this up, the activities of the small group of anti-Semites around Gilad Atzmon and Mary Rizzo, has shrunk into insignificance. The original blog…

Tannock with friend Well my old friend Mark Elf recently wrote to all 9 Conservative MEPs over the proposed EU Trade Agreement with Israel (the vote on which was postponed last Monday because of Israel’s outlaw status). Much to his surprise, Mark’s that is, the Personal Assistant of Charles Tannock MEP wrote back explaining why…

Photo 1 & 2: the new college expansion facing the threat of demolition – Photos courtesy of LRC Academic Freedom – Israeli StyleYou won’t find defenders of ‘academic freedom’ such as Engage taking up issues such as the attack in Hebron on a Palestinian college. Academic freedom is only for the settler society, not the…

70 years ago, the Nazis launched their infamous pogrom against the Jews of Germany, killing dozens of people and burning hundreds of synagogues and smashing the glass of Jewish shops. Contrary to myth, this was not at all popular among ordinary Germans or even the more middle-class elements of the Nazi Party. Even Herman Goering…