Emergency Appeal

I Need £1,000 to ensure the continuation of  this Blog

Update – Target Reached

Please don’t give anymore – donate it to the Al Tafawk Centre, Go Fund Me appeal

Thank you everyone for your magnificent  donations. It has raised over £1,800 now which will enable me to purchase Mailchimp and pay the regular maintenance contract etc. Please no one give anything more

Tony Greenstein

This Blog is one of the longest anti-Zionist, Socialist and pro-Palestinian blogs in existence. In that time I have published 3,384 blogs. The main Blog is on Google’s Blogspot.

About 7 years ago I set up a shadow blog on www.tonygreenstein.com. The reason for this were threats from Zionists that they were going to put pressure on Google to take it down for ‘anti-Semitism’.

That did not happen  but Google have removed a number of blogs until I removed things that offended them. It is therefore extremely useful to have a backup Blog in case Google were ever to remove the blog in its entirety.

I have now been informed by the Sussex Community Internet Project who maintain my blog that my shadow blog needs urgently rebuilding.  The cost is £1,000 and I am therefore appealing to readers to contribute towards this cost.

Unlike many blogs I do not derive any income from the blog. On the contrary I have subsidised it however I am asking viewers to help shoulder the cost.

The blog has specialised in anti-Zionist analysis, in particular of the fascist wing of the  Zionist lobby in Britain focusing on people like Jonathan Hoffman and his band of fascists as well as particularly poisonous sections of the Zionist Lobby such as the CampaignAgainst Antisemitism, the Community Security Trust  and UK Lawyers for Israel. 

I am particularly proud of my analysis of what was happening during the Corbyn era when I continually warned Corbyn that people like Ken Livingstone, Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth, Chris Williamson and myself were collateral damage and that he was the real target.

Unfortunately Corbyn did not listen until it was too late when he too was suspended and had the Whip withdrawn. 

I have also been extremely critical of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, of which I was the co-founder. Its recent actions in suspending officers of Manchester PSC, resulting in the whole branch going independent and its ultimatum to Birmingham PSC that they were not to invite Palestinian hero Leila Khaled as a speaker confirm me in my belief that PSC nationally has learnt no lessons from its refusal to take seriously the 'anti-Semitism' attacks on the Palestine solidarity movement.

Today the government is threatening further attacks on the Palestine solidarity movement. In its dying days it is threatening all those who dare to exercise basic democratic rights. Sunak and his alter ego Starmer would be at home      governing a fully fledged police state.

Mass marches of hundreds of thousands of people against genocide in Gaza are 'hate marches' whereas those supplying and supporting the genocide are bathed in love. This blog is part of the fightback against those who would abolish all remaining democratic rights. They intend to ban those they term as 'extremists' and they  are blunt when they say that if you oppose capitalism you are an 'extremist'.

Those who are opposed to genocide are now 'extremists' whereas those who support murdering 30,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children, are 'moderates'. Michael Gove is intending to introduce further legislation to ban opponents of the racist Israeli state .

We learn that Sunak, smarting over the victory of George Galloway in Rochdale is threatening further attacks including the possible banning as 'extreme' of Palestine Action, a group that PSC has consistently failed to support. We are living in dark and dangerous times and despite my own recent arrest under the Terrorism Act 2000 I am determined not to cease publication of the blog.

Despite shadow banning and the use of algorithms by Facebook and Twitter I have maintained a hit rate of over 50,000. Last month there were over 65,000 hits compared to more than 100,000 at its height.

These attempts to suppress radical and Palestinian supporting sites have hit all such sites such as The Canary, Skwawkbox, Electronic Intifada etc.

I have partly avoided the efforts to restrict the circulation of my blog by maintaining a large email list though Google Groups recently took down one such group which is why I want to start using Mailchimp to bypass these attempts. Again this will cost money.

As you can see from the top 20 posts – which range from an amazing 165,000 for an article on Churchill to over 105,000 on the attack on and imprisonment of Ahed Tamimi – the blog has remained a thorn in the side of the Zionists and is often quoted by the Zionist press (very rarely favourably!).

So I am asking you for support to ensure that Google, Facebook and Twitter are not able to affect its continuation. In the longer term I may well transfer to substack whilst still maintaining a shadow blog.   The shadow blog has about a third of the hits of the blogspot but it is an essential guarantee that Google cannot take my blog down.

As well as maintaining a blog I have brought out a book on Zionism During the Holocaust about a period in history which the Zionists prefer to rewrite if not  forget. I also contribute articles to a wide variety of publications as well as interviews, talks etc. For example a forthcoming Al Jazeera film on the founder of the Stern Gang, Avraham ‘Yair’ Stern, who proposed a military pact with the Nazis, interviewed me.

I would therefore appeal to you to help me continue this work. I would also like to thank those who have made regular donations to help meet ongoing maintenance costs which are about £750 per year.

If you are able to make a donation please transfer any donations to:

Account:         Brighton & Hove Unemployed Workers Centre (business account)

Account No:   04094107

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Thank you,

Tony Greenstein

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