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26 February 2025

My Interviews with Rania Khalek & Katie Halper & my Glasgow Demonstration Speech March 2024

 As Zionism moves towards its Final Solution, Trump, Starmer and Germany’s Genocidal leaders Remain Fulsome in Their Support of Israel’s ‘Right To Defend Itself’

Zionism’s Endgame: a ‘Final Solution’ for the Palestinians, w/ Tony Greenstein

We are living in a world where our rulers don’t even pretend to be on the side of the angels. Their amorality is a badge of pride.

As far as Trump is concerned all that matters in Ukraine is American access to Ukraine’s rare minerals. Likewise in Gaza, never mind the people, what is important is the potential value of Mediterranean real estate.  The fact that 2 million people live there is irrelevant.

Fact Check on Genocidal Song on Israel’s Kan Public Broadcaster

You might think that after 4 genocides to their credit that the German state would be reluctant to support a fifth genocide. Not a bit of it. German politicians have embraced Israel’s genocide in Gaza because it makes them feel better about their own genocides. What could be better than a ‘Jewish’ state perpetrating the genocide.

Israel's Oldest & Most Popular Podcast - 2 Nice Jewish Boys Discuss Erasing Gaza

Zionism and its bastard state, has played the role of helping the German State come to terms with the Nazi holocaust. Now that a far-right party, the AfD, a large portion of whose membership consists of neo-Nazis, has come second in the elections, the German state is moving towards a relativisation of the Holocaust. It is no surprise that Israel’s Diaspora Minister is a fan of Hitler saluting Elon Musk.

The Netherland's Fascist Leader Geert Wilders and Israel's Labor President Isaac Herzog Get On Famously

After all. If Israel can perpetrate a holocaust in Gaza why should Germany be forever burdened with a guilt complex over its holocaust?  It is difficult to argue with such logic.

Israel’s Friendship Song of Annihilation – as sung by Israeli school children

For those who doubt that Germany has participated in 5 genocides then here they are: the Maji Maji genocide in East Africa/Tanganyika, the Nama/Herero genocide, the Turkish genocide of Armenia (Germany was in alliance with Turkey in  WW1), the Jewish/Nazi holocaust and now the Israeli holocaust in Gaza.

I say this by way of introduction. Netanyahu has done all he could to get back to the genocide in Gaza and has broken the ceasefire repeatedly. Less aid has gone in than was agreed, Israeli soldiers have repeatedly killed civilians and as I write the release of the last batch of Palestinian hostages has been delayed on another pretext.

Tony Greenstein at the Glasgow Anti-Racist/Palestine Solidarity Demonstration March 2024

There isn’t an agreement that Israel has been party to that hasn’t been broken.  Israel was supposed to be out of Lebanon but it is now saying that it will maintain 5 permanent bases, naturally in support of its ‘right to self defence’. It has also made it clear that it is staying in Southern Syria following the fall of Assad.

I sometimes think how unlucky Nazi Germany was with its propaganda chief. Goebbels really wasn’t up to it. If Hitler had the benefit of the Daily Mail and BBC then every conquest he made could have been presented as an act of self-defence.

Israel’s goal today remains the same. The removal of the Palestinians from Gaza. In my interview with Rania I was sceptical of their ability to pull it off but as time goes on I am increasingly fearful that they may get away with a large-scale ‘transfer’ given the supine nature of the Arab leaders and the willingness of the Americans to support it.

European leaders’ opposition isn’t worth a bucket of warm spit. We can see Netanyahu prepare the ground with his ludicrous lies that the two Bibas children were killed by Hamas.  We should treat this story on a par with the allegations that Hamas had chopped off the heads of 40 babies which what the media ran with.  It was a lie then and it is a lie now.

But who should leap out to amplify the false stories that Netanyahu, an inveterate and well known liar peddled?  Why our own snake-like Foreign Secretary, David Lammy and of course the viperous Sturmer himself.

Hostage kisses Hamas

Those who repeat Israel’s lies about child-killers are deliberately paving the way for a continued genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Instead of directing their fire at the torture, starvation, rapind to death and the appalling condition of the Palestinian hostages and noting the welcome and friendly relations of many of the Israeli prisoners with their Palestinian captors, Starmer and the BBC focus on yet more Zionist atrocity propaganda.

All the evidence is, as Yocheved Lifshitz said, that Hamas treated Israel's captives humanely


There is little doubt that Netanyahu and his fellow war-criminals are itching to restart the genocide. It is incumbent upon the anti-war movement in this country to step up the protests. Starmer and Lammy have not issued on word of protest at Israel’s mistreatment of the Palestinian prisoners, their humiliating release and abuse. The token demonstrations wandering through London have to step up. Our first rallying point should be the BBC and the Metropolitan Police with their ‘anti-Semitism’ scam should be told to go to hell. We will meet at the BBC because they are the originators of the lies that facilitate genocide.


Interviews with Katie Halper and Rania Khalek

In January and February I was interviewed on a wide range of topics by Katie Halper and Rania Khalek. These included my arrest on October 4 for calling Israel ‘Hitler’s Bastard Offspring’. The filth didn’t like the comparison. They even thought it was anti-Semitic though the thick plod were unable to explain why in my interview.

As I explained to Katie, anti-Zionist Jews are invisible so perhaps that is why. But if they weren’t so stupid they would understand that Zionism is of Christian not Jewish origin.  Jews always opposed Zionism until the holocaust apart from a few freaks and reactionaries.

Of course today the Zionists exploit the holocaust for all its worth with Gilad Erdan, Israel’s representative to the UN donning a Yellow Star. His comparison with the Jewish dead of the holocaust was sickening. If he had had any integrity he would have worn a swastika.  Zionism has always exploited the Jews who died in the holocaust whom Zionism turned its back on.

According to Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first President, the Jews who died in the holocaust were:

dust on the wheels of history and they may have to be blown away. We don’t want them pouring into Palestine. We don’t want Tel Aviv to become another low-grade ghetto.

Erdan ‘forgot’ to mention that during the Hitler era the Zionists were the Nazis favourite Jews. Explaining why Zionists were the good Jews, unlike the ‘assimilationist’ Jews who kept on insisting that they were Jewish Germans, Reinhardt Heydrich, head of the SS, said:

The activity of the Zionist-oriented youth organisations that are engaged in the occupational restructuring of the Jews … lies in the interest of the National Socialist state’s leadership. (These organizations) are not to be treated with that strictness that it is necessary to apply to the members of the so-called German-Jewish organizations (assimilationists).

I also explained my own conversion to anti-Zionism having been brought up in a Zionist family. I was brought up on the lie that the Palestinian refugees voluntarily left their homes and villages rather than being expelled at the point of a gun.

I also explained how, when Zionism first arose, the only people who welcomed it were anti-Semites and that this is true today too.  I specifically mentioned the President of America’s million strong Christians United 4 Israel, John Hagee, who gave a sermon explaining why Hitler was god’s emissary sent to drive the Jews to Palestine.

Orthodox Jews in particular opposed Zionism. Agudat Yisrael was founded as a specifically anti-Zionist organisation. This gives the lie to the claims of Britain’s racist Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis that Zionism and Judaism have been intertwined for 3,000 years.

I also went into the content of my book in some depth explaining that for the Zionists building a ‘Jewish’ state was the first priority in the holocaust and that Ben-Gurion is notorious for saying that if there was a choice to be made between rescuing and saving Jews and building their bastard state, the latter comes first. 

When Britain offered to take 10,000 Jewish children in the wake of Kristallnacht the Zionists were outraged that they weren’t going to Palestine. In a speech to Mapai’s (Israeli Labor Party) Central Committee Ben-Gurion said:

If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England, and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of these children, but also the history of the People of Israel.

I also described the Kasztner Affair and the resulting trial in Israel from 1954-8 when the leader of Hungarian Zionism, a senior official and candidate in Mapai (the Israeli Labor Party) for the next elections, Rudolf Kasztner, sued for libel when he was accused of being a Nazi collaborator. He lost when it transpired that he had spent his time post-war at Nuremberg testifying in favour of Nazi war criminals.

Kasztner had concluded a deal with Eichmann that if the Nazis agreed to a train out of Hungary for the select few (Zionists, bourgeois and a few rabbis) he would not inform Hungarian Jews of the Auschwitz Protocols which two escapees from Auschwitz had written detailing where they would go if they boarded a deportation train. Up till then no one knew that Auschwitz was an extermination camp. Kasztner went so far as to misinform those who were deported that they were travelling to a fictious resettlement camp, Kenyermeze.

With Rania I gave an outline of the development of Zionist historiography of the holocaust and how it had been distorted to accord with Zionist myths of Jewish resistance. Zionism has rewritten the letters and memoirs of the Zionist resistance fighters in the Warsaw ghetto eliminating their criticisms of the Zionist movement.  This was in order that their writings should accord with the Zionist narrative that they led the resistance and were heroes rather than sordid collaborators.

The Zionist historians had also erased entirely the role of Jewish anti-Zionists, in particular the Jewish anti-Zionist Bund and its leader, the last Commander of the Resistance, Marek Edelman.

With Rania I first discussed Trump’s ethnic cleansing plans. I was sceptical that they would succeed but I am less so now as all the indications are that Israel is looking for an excuse to resume the genocide.

We discussed the reaction of Israeli Jews to the plan. 80% support it and just 3% think its amoral. Which means that 97% of Israelis are not only amoral bastards but genocidaires too.  The other 17% either can’t make their mind up about it or think it’s not practical.

I imagine some Nazis also thought the extermination of Jews, Poles, Gays, Roma etc. was not practical. This is the morality of Israelis and that’s why I find it hard to explain why in a democratic, secular state  Israeli Jews would have the right to national rights as Jews. It is difficult explaining why Palestinians should be forced to live side by side with genocidal would be murderers.

There is an overwhelming case for American Jews with 2 passports, especially the settlers on the West Bank, to be deported back to Brooklyn.

I also explained that Hitler didn’t start out with a plan to genocide the Jews. His plan, like the Zionists was ethnic cleansing.  It was only when that failed that genocide became his only option if he wanted to be rid of the Jews. The same ‘dilemma’ faces the Zionists.  If it can’t be expulsion it must be holocaust.

I went into how the very history of the holocaust had been rewritten by the Zionists to emphasise Jewish resistance, despite it being very low apart from the Warsaw Ghetto and a few others such as at Bialystock which went off at half cock, Lachwa and Minsk.

We discussed the situation of Arab Jews in Israel and how Israel deliberately set out to destabilise their position in 1948. In Iraq it is well documented that they planted bombs in synagogues and other places Jews frequented in order to stimulate flight. Avi Shlaim, an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University in his book Three Worlds has recently come up with further proof of Zionist involvement in the bombings.

When the Zionist underground threw a grenade into the courtyard of the Masudo Shemtov synagogue in Baghdad, killing 2 people, they stimulated a mass emigration of the oldest Jewish community in the world.  Out of 135,000 Jews only 10,000 remained after 1951.

I also told how when they arrived in Israel Iraq’s Jews were treated like animals and were sprayed with DDT. Three Worlds also explains how a rich cultured community were turned into poor labourers in Israel, forced to sleep in tents and how they were deArabised.

I described how Holocaust Worship today leads to the creation of holocaust museums (but not for Black slaves or the Native Indians) such as the United States  Holocaust Museum where history has been rewritten.  When I went there Pastor Niemoller’s saying ‘First they came for ...’ was hanging above the entrance except it had been changed. The first category was ‘First they came for the communists’ but that wouldn’t do in cold war America so it was omitted.

I also showed how two-thirds of the members of the Judenrate, the Nazi Councils that the Nazis established to help implement the Final Solution, were Zionist. It was the Judenrate and not the Nazis who rounded up Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Rania observed that the Palestinian Authority was the Palestinian equivalent of the Judenrate!

I quoted Hannah Arendt who said in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem that

Wherever Jews lived, there were recognized Jewish leaders, and this leadership, almost without exception, cooperated in one way or another, for one reason or another, with the Nazis. The whole truth was that if the Jewish people had really been unorganized and leaderless, there would have been chaos and plenty of misery but the total number of victims would hardly have been between four and a half and six million people.[1]

I told how the Warsaw ghetto resistance’s first task was to execute Jewish collaborators. They couldn’t have organised a rebellion with the collaborators operating. This is equally true of the Palestinian revolution. It too has to execute its collaborators.

Katie discussed my book, Zionism During the Holocaust in some depth in particular how the Zionist movement has weaponised Jewish suffering and anti-Semitism whilst refusing to draw any universal lessons from the Holocaust. I also spoke about my arrest under the Terrorism Acts and the attacks on the Palestine solidarity movement in Britain and Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU1xaPJYDXg

The Katie Halper Show – Interview with Tony Greenstein, Jenny Manson & Rabbi Herschel Gluck

I won’t even attempt to summarise the topics we discussed but I enjoyed both interviews which were penetrating and thoughtful. At a time when Israel is committing genocide in Gaza as a consequence of colonial expansion and in the cause of racial purity, it is incumbent on Jewish anti-Zionists to speak out against the horrors that are taking place in our name.

Another point of comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany is Israel’s policy of starvation of Gaza’s civilian population. This is taken straight out of the Nazi playbook. 20% of the Warsaw ghetto, some 80,000 people, died from starvation. An even higher percentage died in Lodz, the second biggest ghetto in Poland. Hans Frank, the Nazi governor of Poland, spoke of Death By Hunger as does Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister, who is of the opinion that starving 2 million people to death would be ‘moral’ if only the West would allow him to get away with it!

The mass executions that Israel has carried out and the mass graves, to say nothing of the torture camps, resemble nothing so much as the Nazi policies towards the civilian population of the countries they occupied. In some ways they are worse.

The major difference between Nazi Germany and Israel is that anti-Semitism in Germany itself was mainly confined to a hardcore of the Nazi party, the ‘old fighters’ whereas in Israel genocidal racism is supported by the overwhelming majority of the Jewish population.

This is perhaps best summed up in the hilarious story of a Zionist who went in search of Palestinians to kill in Miami Beach, Florida and ended up shooting two Israelis who he thought looked like Palestinians! The Israelis, assuming it was an anti-Semitic attack by Palestinians, signed off with ‘death to the Arabs’ on Facebook.

According to the bogus IHRA ‘definition’ of anti-Semitism, it is anti-Semitic to compare Israel to Nazi Germany (but is it anti-German to compare Nazi Germany to Israel?!). Yet Israelis go out of their way to draw such parallels themselves. A Nazi mentality has descended on the Jewish population of Israel.

An article in Ha’aretz 'When You Leave Israel and Enter Gaza, You Are God': described how many soldiers in Gaza reported moral injuries: "I felt like, like, like a Nazi ... it looked exactly like we were actually the Nazis and they were the Jews."



[1]        Arendt, p. 125.



11 January 2025

Looking Back at 2024 - Some Of The Interviews I Gave & the Speeches I Made

 For those who don’t like to compare Israel & Nazi Germany my message is ‘Compare, Compare, Compare’ – At A Time Of Extermination it's Important to Understand Just What Kind of State Israel Is

Demonstration Outside Westminster Magistrates Court


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv2lxMBpW-0&t=235s

Crispin Flintoff & Tony Greenstein Outside Westminster Magistrates Court

2024 has been a very busy year for me and below are some of the things that I did.  I had a tour of Scotland and speaking engagements in Ireland and the Netherlands as well as speaking at demonstrations in Glasgow, Liverpool and my home town Brighton.

I continued to promote my book which came out at the end of 2022. Quite remarkably sales were higher by far in the first half of 2024 than in the first half of 2023. You don’t get to learn of the sales figures until about 3 months after the end of the half year but I expect they will have increased again.

I did a wide range of interviews and talks, only some of which are below with audiences in the United States, South Africa and Australia. The theme of my book can be summed up in that Jewish Chronicle headline ‘Infamous anti-Israel activist Tony Greenstein called Jewish state 'Hitler's bastard offspring’. Israel has demonstrated that the only thing it learnt from Nazi Germany was how to emulate them.

On 21st December Katie Halper and I finally managed to arrange an interview. Katie was a stand-up comedian before taking to podcasts and political commentary. She runs her own Katie Halper Show and is co-host of the podcast Useful Idiots with Aaron Maté.

Katie was a very challenging interviewer and I was pleased with the outcome. Recorded separately were interviews with Jenny Manson, the co-chair of Jewish Voices for Labour and Rabbi Herschel Gluck.

On November 7 I was invited to Cork in Ireland to speak. The atmosphere in Ireland is totally different from that in Britain where the State is breathing down our necks and harassing our marches. Ireland doesn’t have a genocidal supporting government supplying Israel with more weaponry to murder civilians and destroy hospitals.

I spoke in a hotel on the evening of the November 7 and the room was packed and I nearly sold out of books. At the end of the meeting I was taken aback when I was given a standing ovation. It shows the enthusiasm and solidarity of the Irish with the Palestinians.

On the Friday night I spoke at a bar in a small town in West Cork, Skibbereen. I’d never heard of the place before but again the room was packed to the rafters. The following day I took part in a march in the town and afterwards spoke at the rally.

This was in the middle of the Irish General Election. There were sarcastic comments about the Social Democrats taking part in the march having never done previously! The experience of British colonialism has ensured that the Irish understand what is happening and it is no surprise that Israel has closed its Embassy in Ireland.


My relationship with Electronic Intifada has been for over 15 years. It has been a very productive and comradely one. EI first asked me to write an article Histadrut: Israel's racist "trade union" in March 2009. I have since written a number of articles. Their podcast How Zionists collaborated with the Nazis, in conversation with Tony Greenstein has gained over 320K views and is one of their most highly viewed. Asa Winstanley also reviewed my book under the title How Zionism helped the Nazis perpetrate the Holocaust.

Asa himself has recently written the most comprehensive account of anyone of the anti-Semitism smear campaign under Jeremy Corbyn, Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn.

I was therefore pleased to be invited to an interview with EI on my birthday, 30 December! It was a very useful and productive interview. Electronic Intifada is the premiere Palestine Solidarity website. Having written for many papers, journals and sites I have to say that no one gives you such a hard time as EI! They check virtually every word and quote to see that you can back it up.  Nothing escapes the scrutiny of their fact checkers. Would that the British tabloids or Elon Musk had to undergo the same level of scrutiny!

Another interview, in fact two interviews was with Rania Khalek, a young Lebanese woman who runs Breakthrough News. Rania is a feisty interviewer who clearly feels the pain of what has happened in Lebanon with Israel’s savage bombing of its civilian population.

Rania first interviewed me in Budapest on 10 April, where I had gone for dental implant surgery.  However the Internet connection was not good and my computer had problems so we completed the interview on 15 April back in Brighton. This is the full interview and this is the cut down version.

 

On 14 June Rania interviewed me about my book and this time it was completed in one session. I found it a fascinating interview and thanks to Rania for the time she took over this. Subsequently Rania was invited to speak at a meeting of the Socialist Labour Network and Jewish Network for Palestine on a Jewish or a Democratic State and on January 27 she will speak at our Holocaust Memorial Day meeting. You can go here for the full length interview.

I have never been attracted to the idea of an autobiography or even a biography. Life is too short to waste time describing what you have done with your life and its bound to be partial and self-exculpatory. However I was happy to work with Helen Aksentijevic to produce a short, half hour film summarising some of the things I’ve tried to do.

Helen has produced similar films on other Jewish anti-Zionist  such as Moshe Machover, Haim Bresheeth and Sabby Sagall so I was very flattered to be asked.


Tony Greenstein - An Ordinary Rebel plus Question & Answer Session at the P21

At the end of October I was invited to the wedding of an old friend, a long standing Palestine solidarity activist, Susan  Blackwell.  She lives in the Netherlands and so I said that I would be happy to do a meeting whilst there.

Sue got in touch with students at the main technical university in the Netherlands, Delft University, and I was invited to speak to a meeting. The only problem was that the university, which was happy to invite Admiral Ellis, a representative of US arms company Lockheed Martin to campus and a ghoul of many US wars, they didn’t want me to speak because I might hurt the feelings of those students who supported the genocide in Gaza.

Of course when you contrast the hurt feelings of Zionists with the dead bodies of Palestinian children there is no contest.  So I wrote to the Rector His Magnificus (yes that’s his title) Timothy van der Hagen suggesting that freedom of speech is worth preserving. After all Hagen had written on the university website that

‘The most important task of TU Delft is to make a contribution towards building a better society’.

Yet Magnificus Hagen’s idea of a better society and mine were not the same. Hagen is just another ruling class hypocrite.

However the students had other ideas. Although I was banned from campus I turned up anyway and with just 2 hours notice over 100 students gathered to listen to me on the steps of the library. Not only had the stupid Magnificus built my meeting for me but by his own actions he had ensured that my message went out to thousands.

The Rector of Delft University - the Magnificus Timothy van der Hagen

The security, although watching, did not intervene.  A magnificus victory! I did write to Magnificus Hagen afterwards but he seems to be a man of few words and even fewer thoughts!


Tony Greenstein's Speech at Delft University Which the Administration Tried to Ban

As readers of this blog will know I was arrested a year ago on ‘terrorism’ charges and my last court appearance was on 19 December at Westminster magistrates court. There was a demonstration outside and I will be next appearing at the Old Bailey on 31 January where I hope people will also demonstrate their opposition to the use of terrorism legislation to silence Palestine solidarity activists.

Tony Greenstein's speech outside Westminster Magistrates Court

On the 4 August  I came back from my holiday in the Outer Hebrides and stopped off in Liverpool, where I spent my childhood, to speak to the Palestine demonstration outside the Roman Catholic Cathedral. I always enjoy going back to Liverpool with its magnificent waterfront and city buildings.

On 3 December I spoke on behalf of Jewish Network for Palestine at a seminar organised by the Open University Palestine group. Other speakers were Tony Lerman, an expert in anti-Semitism and former Director of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research, Barnaby Raine, a Ph D student and young firebrand and Michael Richmond who spoke about philosemitism, the other side of the anti-Semitism coin. The title was ‘How anti-Semitism has complemented Zionism’.

How antisemitism has complemented Zionism – Tony Greenstein

(for the full video go to here)

The JNP and SLN organised a seminar on the 12 November in the wake of my review of Jonathan Freedland’s dishonest biography of Rudolf Vrba, The Escape Artist, about the anti-Zionist Jewish hero who escaped, with Alfred Wetzler, from Auschwitz in order to warn Hungarian Jews of preparations being made to exterminate them.

Speakers included Stephen Kapos, a survivor of the Hungarian holocaust, Haim Bresheeth, an anti-Zionist Israeli and member of JNP and Tom Suarez, author Palestine Hijacked and State of Terror. Below is my contribution. A comprehensive website on Vrba has been set up by Alan Twigg, a journalist who knew him.

Zionism & the Holocaust – Tony Greenstein

The Complete Seminar – Rewriting the Holocaust

To commemorate the one year anniversary of October 7, the SLN and JNP organised a seminar to discuss the Gaza holocaust. Speakers included Ghada Karmi, a refugee from 1948, Rania Khalek, Haim Bresheeth and myself. Below is my speech but people can go to the SLN’s Youtube channel to listen to the complete seminar, ‘A Jewish State or a Democratic State’. Most most people agree that it was an extremely good seminar and I highly recommend listening to the whole seminar as I do the previous one on Vrba.

For One Democratic State

In the wake of Starmer’s election, the SLN organised a star studded panel including myself! Speakers included Ian Hodson, General Secretary of the Bakers Union,  Graham Bash – founding editor of National Labour Briefing, David Miller – who was sacked for his anti-Zionist views by Bristol University and who later won a landmark employment tribunal, Chris Williamson, the former Labour MP who was forced out of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn and Crispin Flintoff, presenter of the Not the Andrew Marr show and latterly the Crispin Flintoff show which has a regular attendance of 500 every Sunday morning. You can hear the full video on the SLN Youtube channel here.

SLN Tony Greenstein – Where to for the Left 12 07 24

Every year for the past 2 years the SLN and the JNP have organised a meeting on Holocaust Memorial Day, January 27. As the Zionists weaponise the holocaust we have to be prepared to stand up and say ‘Never Again Means Never Again for Everyone’. For the Zionists of course, Never Again means never again only for Jews, or the right kind of Jew.

On January 27 2024 we had an excellent line up including Professor Ilan Pappe, Ghada Karmi, Ronnie Kasrills – the former head of Umkonte We Sizwe, the ANC’s military wing as well as former South African Police Minister , Stephen Kapos – a child holocaust survivor from Budapest, Suzanne Weiss – a child survivor from France and myself. Again a remarkable meeting. For the full meeting go here or here.

When Israel had been a month into the genocide in Gaza the JNP and SLN organised a webinar on the theme of stopping Israel’s onslaught. Speakers included Huda Ammori from Palestine Action, Asa Winstanley of Electronic Intifada, Stephen Kapos, Ronnie Barkan – an Israeli anti-Zionist activist and Tony Greenstein. You can watch the complete video here.

Stop the Genocide in Gaza 10.11.23

Last January I undertook a tour of Scotland at the invitation of Scottish PSC. I spoke in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee. I also spoke at a large demonstration in Glasgow city centre.

Tony Greenstein speaking at Palestine Demonstration in Glasgow January 6 2024

Two months later I was back in Glasgow. It was March 16, UN Anti-Racism Day and the SWP’s  Stand Up to Racism were also holding a march. On the tiny SUTR march was none other than Glasgow Friends of Israel. Ever since 2017 the SWP/SUTR have insisted on marching with Zionists against racism! It’s like campaigning against rape alongside rapists.

This has been the subject of heated controversy in Scotland and the Police were always willing to lend a helping hand to ensure that the Zionists could march. This year, at a time of genocide in Palestine, the SWP’s decision to march with Zionists was particularly disgraceful.

Tony Greenstein speaking at the Anti-Racism Demonstration in Glasgow March 16 2024

On October 4th, the 88th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, when the Police unsuccessfully tried to batter a way through the East End of London for the British Union of Fascists. The same Metropolitan Police arrested me after a picket of racist Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotoveli for comparing Israel’s genocide in Gaza to the Nazi holocaust. Their pretext was that I had committed a ‘racially aggravated offence’ under the Public Order Act. After being held for 7 hours I was released from  Holborn Police Station. A few weeks later I was informed that I would not be charged with any offence.  This is the speech that so annoyed the Met!

Tony Greenstein Speech Which Led to his Arrrest at Picket of Tzipi Hotoveli 4 Oct 2024

At 8 a.m. on the 26 November 2024 I gave a talk to listeners in Australia about my book, Zionism During the Holocaust. It was 7 pm there!

In this interview with Crispin Flintoff I tried to explain why people believe I’m outspoken and what motivates me

Interview Tony Greenstein on the Crispin Flintoff Show - Why I'm Outspoken

On 23 November 2023 I spoke to a meeting of the Labour Left Alliance in the wake of October 7. There was then an extensive Question & Answer session.

LLA meeting 23 November 2023

On 15 November I spoke at a demonstration organised by the Trades Council outside Hove Town Hall

And finally the one time I appeared on Question Time at Sussex University’s Gardener Centre. It was when Norman Tebbit, the Chingford skinhead was on the panel. I spoke from the audience attacking him for his racist cricket test directed against immigrants from the Indian sub-continent. Also on the panel was Clare Short. Peter Sissons was in the Chair. I don’t think I would have got away with it with today’s far-right Fiona Bruce!

Tony Greenstein on Question Time