A notorious Brighton activist who plotted to attack a drone factory with sledgehammers and paint has avoided going to prison today.
Tony Greenstein, 69, was told by a judge at Wolverhampton Crown Court that his persistent blogging and behaviour in court almost landed him with a prison sentence.
He and three others were found guilty in May of planning an attack on the Israeli-owned Elbit Systems factory in Shenstone, near Walsall.
But today, His Honour Judge Michael Chambers said he was going to give Greenstein and his co-defendants the benefit of the doubt when they insisted they would no longer undertake violent protests.
Greenstein, Ibrahim Samadi, 26, Alex Waters, 26, and Jeremy Parker, 55, were all given suspended sentences.
Following the hearing, chants of “Free, free Palestine” and whoops of joy and laughter were heard in court.
Judge Chambers told Greenstein: “Are you going to do it again? I don’t accept that there is a low risk of you reoffending.
“One only has to look at your blogs and actions and to have heard your evidence to see that the risk in your case is potentially significant.
“But you have assured the author of the pre sentence report that you don’t intent to reoffend in this way.
“Despite my concern I am prepared to give you the benefit of the doubt.
“There is a realistic prospect of rehabilitation, you are genuine carer for your autistic son and you have no relevant convictions. I am persuaded in your case that the sentence should be suspended.”
Earlier during the three-hour sentencing hearing, Judge Chambers told the defendants that the offences clearly reached the custody threshold.
He said: “You each demonstrated an unswerving, blinkered commitment to your cause.
“It was clear from the evidence you gave to the jury that you were unrepentant.”
“It’s apparent to everyone that … public attitudes have hardened towards tolerance for extreme actions or minorities choosing disruption or criminal damage rather than using the main routes that are open to protest in a democratic society.
“That has also been reflected by recent decisions of the court of appeal.”
Tony Greenstein, who is well known in Brighton both for his anti-Israel activism and for being expelled from the Labour party for abusing fellow members,
Following the verdict, he was ordered by the judge to take down several blog posts in which urged jurors to acquit him and his co-defendants as a matter of conscience – which the judge said constituted “serious contempt”.
During the trial, the jury heard Greenstein hired a van on March 8, 2021, from Choices Vehicle Rentals in Beaconsfield Road, where the manager said he seemed frantic.
The van was then driven to Walsall in the West Midlands, where it was loaded with sledgehammers, smoke bombs, ladders, superglue, a crowbar and fire extinguishers adapted to spray red paint.
Greenstein also picked up other members of Palestine Action, a group whose stated aim is to shut down Israeli arms company Elbit Systems.
When police stopped the van in the early hours of the next morning, they found members of the group in the back wearing red boilersuits, which its protesters wear when ‘occupying’ targets.
Greenstein told police he was just going for a drive, but after he was released on bail, he posted on his blog that he had been arrested “whilst driving a van to Elbit Systems Shenstone factory.
“We were intent on redecorating the premises of Elbit in the blood red colour of their victims.”
The police investigation subsequently found that Parker, whose mother lives in Walsall, used the name Bob Palmer to order the red boilersuits, which were delivered to his mum’s house.
An Airbnb was also booked in the town under the name of Huda Ammori, the joint founder of Palestine Action, where half the group changed into red boilersuits.
Greenstein and the other five people in the van were all charged with possessing an article with the intent to destroy property.
Bethany Croarkin of no fixed abode pleaded guilty before the trial began.
Greenstein, who now lives in Belgrave Place, Ibrahim Samadi, an engineer from Cambridge, and Alex Waters, a landscape gardener and parish councillor for Forest Row, were all given nine months, suspended for two years and ordered to to attend 20 rehabilitation action requirement days.
Greenstein must do 80 hours of unpaid work, and Samadi and Waters 150 hours.
Jeremy Parker, from Birmingham, was given a 12 month sentence, suspended for two years, ordered to attend 20 rehabilitation action requirement days and do 150 hours of unpaid work.
The court was told Parker, who stood as a Green Party parliamentary candidate in Ealing North in 2019, has lost his job as an IT professional as a result of the trial.
Following the trial, the jury failed to reach a verdict against the final defendant, Helen Caney from North Shields. She will be retried at a future date.
Croarkin will be sentenced at a future date. Before the sentencing, Judge Chambers ruled on an application from their defence counsel that he should recuse himself for requiring them to lift their burqua so they could be identified and not always refer to them with they/them pronouns after they identified themselves to the court as non-binary.
But Judge Chambers refused the application, saying they had turned up to the many early hearings in conventional dress, and when he asked them to lift the veil it was to check their ID as he was suspicious their application to change plea to guilty was a ploy to help the other defendants.
He said he had tried to use them/they pronouns after the diagnosis of gender dysphoria was served to the court, and any slip was not disrespectful – noting their defence counsel also sometimes used the wrong pronouns too.
This article was amended on 7 September to clarify the van was loaded with equipment in Walsall, not Brighton, and that only people in the back of the van were wearing boilersuits when it was stopped by police.
“Despite my concern I am prepared to give you the benefit of the doubt.
Ha, ha, ha! Talk about naive! Where is the doubt? A criminal is a criminal, and this guy sure is a criminal. The only doubt can be whether or not the judge is really suitable for the job.
Trouble makers each and everyone.
Social inadequates.
Rebels without a cause. Should have locked them up and lose the key.
Just Stop Oil, Black Lives Matter, Stop Brexit, Tories Out. Same old rent-a-mob. Just a load of layabouts and failures who think that showing up at any and every protest justifies their pathetic little existence.
Or being a cleaner at the Israeli Embassy.
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE NO MATTER WHAT
Stupid! It already is free.
There is none so blind than those that will not see.
‘ There is none so blind than those that will not see’
If that applies to anyone Delboy it applies to you. E.g.
Belgian Minister says what Biden won’t: Israel is wiping Entire Palestinian Villages off the Map
https://www.juancole.com/2023/09/minister-palestinian-villages.html
Israeli Weapons for War Criminals – Haaretz Editorial
https://tinyurl.com/3t99awj5
Israeli Settlers Target the Weakest Link as Ethnic Cleansing Becomes Policy – Opinion – Haaretz.com
https://tinyurl.com/4m6eu35n
Ha’aretz is one of Israel’s oldest and its only liberal daily
West Bank: Spike in Israeli Killings of Palestinian Children – Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-killings-palestinian-children
Former Mossad chief Pardo says Israel enforcing ‘apartheid’ system in West Bank – Times of Israel
https://tinyurl.com/y9z9ewdu
There were always those who turned a blind eye to Apartheid in South Africa and those who, like the Daily Mail & Express who saw good in the Hitler regime. So nothing Delboy says is new.
Derek, I suppose you would define as “Socially Adequate” a person who never stands up against cruelty and injustice? These “rebels” certainly do have a cause. Please try to understand that cause before you jeer and sneer.
Only if you say so.
Answer me the question – which Israel in what borders are you demanding that we recognise?
Just tell us what they are and many (probably most) people in here will do what you’re demanding!
“the main routes that are open to protest in a democratic society” what’s that then write to your MP, sign a petition, stand politely somewhere with a placard even that can get you arrested these days. Israel has been in breach of international law for decades, occupying Palestinian land the same way Russia is occupying Ukrainian land. The UK government recognises Israel is in breach of international law and wags its fingers at Israels regular war crimes well here’s some people who wanted to take meaningful action, shut down a drone factory and disrupt the supply of killing machines from the UK, it’s got to this point because the politicians do nothing on Israels numerous crimes, Palestinians being killed daily by an occupying power, all strength to Palestine Action
Stupid! It already is free.
There is none so blind than those that will not see.
Tony Greenstein is an extreme right wing activist. He has had numerous court appearances, in which a Judge agreed he was a notorious antisemite. He has form for in inciting attacks on black & LGBT Labour members & socialists.
Seriously!! Can you evidence this?
Seriously Yes !
Greenstein was kicked out of Labour, & booted out of the Unison Trade Union.
Tony Greenstein was kicked out of Labour for being the wrong kind of Jew and for being (very effectively) critical of genocide.
And I wonder what the initial three posters think about the treatment of the Palestinians by Israel during the past 75 years!
I see the usual reactionaries are out in force.
Hendrik tells us a ‘criminal is a criminal’. Well that was what the suffraggettes were called in their time.
Some of us think Elbit, which tests their weapons on civilians, which has caused the death of hundreds of Palestinian civilians including children, are the the criminals but in the best traditions of British imperialism and colonialism and probably his native South Africa Hendrik doesn’t see things that way.
It is ironic that during our trial 25 people, all White incidentally were convicted of horrendous abuse of children and sentenced deservedly to long terms of imprisonment.
At the same time a trial of 5 activists who had tried to prevent an Israeli arms factory, operating in Britain, from producing the drones and missiles which kill children was being defended by the CPS and the might of the British judicary. Work that one out and smoke it in your pipe.
And if Derek thinks we are rebels without a cause it just goes to show his own moral decline (assuming he had such things in the first place).
Because part of this article seems word for word the same as that in Jewish News by my favourite hacking ‘journalist’ liar Lee Harpin it has also copied his mistakes.
For the record. The van I drove up from Brighton contained only ladders. The smoke bombs etc. were already there and packed up in the flat. No evidence was put forward to suggest that I drove up anything other than ladders.
Nor is it true that I, Jeremy Parker or Helen Caney were wearing red boiler suits for the simple reason that I was not intending to go into the factory. Not because I had any principled objection to doing so but because at my age scaling 8 foot high metal fences is a bit beyond me. Also the van needed to be back that day.
But why let the facts get in the way of a good story? As for the pejorative headline ‘dodges prison’ I will leave it to your more sensible reader(s) to judge whether fact and comment have become intertwined.
As for the 3 crusties I expect that when Hans and Sophie Scholl were beheaded that their detractors were also of the opinion that a criminal is always a criminal. Reactionaries rarely change their spots
Solidarity Tony.. Articulate as ever.
Oh just shut up you’re giving us a headache. You go on and on.
Is that all you’ve got to do?
Sharrup already.
Hi Tony,
Thanks for flagging up the possible mistakes in the detail of who was wearing boiler suits and exactly what was in the van at what stage. I will try and check with the CPS whether this reflects their case – you can understand we never make changes based on just one person’s word, particularly when it’s court copy and the complaint comes from the person who’s been convicted.
I would note the judge made it very clear in court that regardless of these details, he considered that you and Parker intended to go to the premises and participate in the criminal damage, whether on the roof or in a supporting role on the ground.
I was present at the hearing virtually – you may not have seen on the CVP screen from the dock, but my name was listed as a participant.
Is Tony not in contempt of court for posting these comments?
there’s no longer a jury to prejudice, so no
Jo
You are correct. You couldn’t be seen on the video link. However you have now amended the article so you have to accept that I was correct. There is much else that you d idn’t cover and your comment that I would have been in a supporting role on the ground is also correct.
That comment of the judge, a reactionary and blinkered judge, is not supported by the evidence and will be the subject of an appeal.
To have supported the rooftop protest I would have had to scale an 8 foot metal fence. That is beyond me at my age but if I could I would have done.
Judges are wrong, often, but being prosecution minded and unsympathetic to a protest aimed at a billion dollar company whose profits are made from the mangled bodies of wedding parties in the Yemen, children playing on the beach in Gaza and possibly worst of all the supply of drones and other weaponry to the Myanamar Junta, which has committed genocide against the Rohinga people, including burning to the ground whole villages with their inhabitants inside the buildings you have made it clear which side you are on in all of this.
The British state has no morality but what is your excuse?
Congratulations for everything Tony.
Congratulations for reminding us of the six Scholl siblings: Inge (1917–1998), Hans (1918–1943), Elisabeth (1920–2020), Sophie (1921–1943), Werner (1922–1944) and Thilde (1925–1926).
It seems strange indeed that, despite all this rememberance of the Holocaust we blank our minds to the White Roses protesting Hitler.
On February 18, 1943, two of the siblings, Hans and Sophie, were handing out flyers they’d written themselves at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich calling on the German people to take action to stop injustice and genocide. The custodian informed the Gestapo.[2] By February 22, 1943, they had been sentenced to death by the People’s Court, led by Judge-President Roland Freisler and were executed by guillotine on the same day in the Stadelheim Prison.
Not sure what Hendrik, Derek and sr fart right are getting their knickers in a twist for. The only people that would have been affected by their planned action would have been war criminals who profit from testing their arms on children. Maybe Hendrik, Derek and fart right should get a job. Elbit should be in the docks here, as they are the criminals.
FREE FREE PALESTINE
We need more heroes like Tony!
Jail the real traitors complicit with Israeli apartheid (Hendrikson, Derek and Sir Lefty Farr Wright for a start)
Definitely. ✊️✊️🇵🇸🇵🇸
TONY GOT DONE IN HIS STUDENT DAYS FOR NICKING CHEQUES – JUST AN ERROR OF JUDGEMENT . PERHAPS HE CAN DO HIS UNPAID COMMUNITY SERVICE ON A KIBBIYZ 😄
Heroes…. Elbit Systems is an Israeli-owned corporation of immense wealth, with an immense death toll to match. This single-issue, direct action group causes no inconvenience or harm to anyone other than Elbit, their employees (shame on them!) and their protectors.
A brave action by courageous people. Palestine WILL be free.
Public attitudes have indeed hardened towards tolerance for extreme actions.
Killing innocent people with weapons built in this country is an extreme action. Trying to prevent it is moral duty.
Respect, thanks and solidarity to all those who take direct action against these crimes.
A complete nonsense and miscarriage of justice for this to come to court at all.
These brave people deserve medals for trying to disrupt and bring to the attention of the British public the racist, murderous apartheid israeli state.
Elbit Systems make drones which are advertised as ‘Battle tested’, against the men, women and children of Palestine.
The judge should be ashamed of himself
Miscarriage of justice? I agree..shudda got 10 years hard labour
indefatigable courage and resolve in pursuit of justice for Palestine. He founded a centre for Palestinian children.
It was brave to speak about his beliefs although the Judge threatened him with contempt of court. Hundreds who believed that it was wrong to make weapons to murder Palestinian children sent him messages of support throughout the long months of the trial and unacceptable delays which increased the stress. This is a victory for truth and justice. These are the principles by which we should live.
The voice of sanity. Well said Kate.
You need help.
Public attitudes have not hardened towards effective protests (ie disruptive protest). Rather the capitalist elites have clamped down on dissent and turned the UK into a fascist state. Damaging a weapons factory is hardly violence when weapons themselves are violent and immoral. If anything they deserve to be attacked. The public didnt ask the courts to attack non-violent/non harmful protest, the conservatives only represent themselves and their lobbyists not the public. At least this judge let them off. Other non violent protesters have not been so lucky Disgraceful attack on democracy!!!
Absolutely!
Tony Greenstein, the well known antisemite given the benefit of the doubt? Laughable.
If you don’t like anti-semitism, then stop linking the barbarous atrocities (and apartheid) of Israel to the Jews!
Is it not ironic that the law defines as “offenders” needing “rehabilitation” those who refuse to turn a blind eye against injustice and who bravely put themselves on the line?
One of the Momentum Fruitcakes.
He clearly has issues – still trying to be Johnny Rebel aged 69!
The usual crap from Brighton & Hove news. Why let facts get in the way of the truth. Someone sitting at their kitchen table pinching bits from other people’s articles. Lee Harpin no less!??
Tony has more bravery & integrity than any of the detractors on these comments. Definitely more than the author of this peice.
What the Palestinians are having to endure in their own land by those who are their occupiers is totally unacceptable & against International law.
I can guarantee that I will be vilified fir these comments. I stand with Tony & others who stand up for the Palestinian people.
What a pity he doesn’t complain about the rockets being fired from Gaza on a daily basis, and the terrorist attacks on Israeli citizens. Thank goodness Britain did not have people like you during WW2, when we were being bombed constantly by the Nazis. Would you have just said “thank you”, instead of fighting back?
Or maybe you think it is wrong for the Ukrainians to be defending themselves against the appalling attacks by Russia.
What a pity that you support the state terrorism of the only apartheid state in the Middle East.
The only apartheid state in the world.
You’re welcome to criticise my reporting Pam, but just on a factual note, I attended the trial, sentencing and other related hearings via a videolink. Apart from one local reporter being present for a couple of hours during pre-trial argument, I believe I was the only reporter to be present in court (albeit virtually).
Mr Greenstein has flagged a couple of possible errors in the detail, and I’ll follow these up to find out if a correction is needed.
I would echo what Kate Adams (see above) has said as she has put it so well. Personally, I admire and am grateful to people of conscience like Tony Greenstein and his co-defendants who risked their own safety and freedom for others, in this case, the Palestinian people who are living under an apartheid regime and the Israeli arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, is an integral part of that oppression.
Wow! The Tony G fanboys are out in force today!
What’s your problem Toxteth, don’t you like freedom of speech? Or reasoned comment (instead of jeers and ad hominems)?
Well – it does seem that a large mob of rent-a-crowd Tony fans has suddenly been mobilised. And it’s always good fun to be savaged by an attack poodle .
Can’t wait till the story hits the Argus
Mr Greenstein is an informed and passionate advocate for the rights of the Palestinian people and for this he has long earned the contempt and censure for those less engaged and less informed.What is too often and convenientlyv ignored is his unquestionable understanding of the political situation in the Middle East, International Law and aspects of due legal process in this country Not surprisingly his scholarship and meticulous research clear and elegant writing also earn him international respect in academic circles. Israel is tearing itself apart as the government attempts to politicise the Judiciary we should be wary of this.Dislike of the man should not justify the blurring of truth.The non custodial sentence was of course correct we should be grateful a light in an increasingly dark tunnel
Mr Greenstein is an informed and passionate advocate for the rights of the Palestinian people and for this he has long earned the contempt and censure for those less engaged and less informed.What is too often and convenientlyv ignored is his unquestionable understanding of the political situation in the Middle East, International Law and aspects of due legal process in this country Not surprisingly his scholarship and meticulous research clear and elegant writing also earn him international respect in academic circles. Israel is tearing itself apart as the government attempts to politicise the Judiciary we should be wary of this.Dislike of the man should not justify the blurring of truth.The non custodial sentence was of course correct we should be grateful a light in an increasingly dark tunnel
And, of course, don’t mention his conduct when he was a prime mover in the local Momentum group
was this a criminal offence too Charlie Herbert? Some of these right-wing comments are pathetic. What I do know is that if we went back 90 years some of these posters would have been cheering the executions of Hans and Sophie Scholl – after all they broke the law or a bit more recently would have been wearing those ‘hang Nelson Mandela’ stickers that the Tory student group distributed.
>>And, of course, don’t mention his conduct when he was a prime mover in the local Momentum group
Perhaps they’re just winding you up, purely for the purpose of light entertainment
Not infrequently the law has proved itself an ass. Today’s ‘criminal’ is tomorrow’s hero. Nelson Mandela, branded as the leader of a ‘terrorist’ organisation by Mrs Thatcher, became the acclaimed leader of the ‘rainbow nation’ and was honoured with a statue in Parliament Square. United Nations Resolution 194 proclaimed the eternal right of Palestinians to return to the homes from which they had fled or been expelled during the Nakba. To forestall the implementation of this, Israel, through the Jewish National Fund, covered the stolen land with non-indigenous eucalyptus and pine trees, which acidify the soil, rendering it useless for the grazing of local flocks while at the same time concealing the ruined Palestinian villages from view. In the case of Greenstein et al, the real villain is Israel, which has been carrying out its depredations on the population it has displaced for many decades without a whimper of protest from the Western powers that have facilitated its actions and sheltered it from criticism. Tony Greenstein, who stands to gain nothing but opprobrium for his selfless championing of a downtrodden people, is beyond question the hero of this affair. I look forward to the day when his courage is duly recognised and he receives the plaudits that his tireless efforts deserve.
I have a sneaking feeling that we may not live to see a statue in honour of Tony Greenstein in Parliament Square. To compare him with someone like Mandela is at best naive. While I don’t doubt Greenstein’s passionate belief in his cause, he seems to divide people rather unite them. Mandela brought people together at home and abroad, creating the goodwill and momentum necessary to drive through historic change. Incidentally, I’m not suggesting Israel or Palestine are all good or all bad, but I can’t help thinking how Greenstein appears to have alienated a number of people who might otherwise have supported his cause.
Mandela united people only when he had destroyed the Apartheid system. In his 1963-4 Rivonia trial he was in danger of being hanged. He was fiercely uncompromising but he was magnanimous in his victory.
I have no doubt that when the Palestinians win they too will be magnanimous but b4 then much blood will unfortunately be spilled.
I have long predicted that a state based on the purity of Jewish blood, because the key legal question dogging Israel has been ‘Who is a Jew’ (which also dogged Nazi race theoreticians) could only lead to the rise of those who advocated making Israel Arabrein, empty of Arabs. That necessitates a police state and that is what the massive protests against the judicial reform are about.
The settlement movement is taking over the Israeli body politic together with the orthodox Jews. People who hate not just Palestinians but gays, refugees etc.
Well the most interesting aspect of this story is :
1. How did the police stop the vehicle BEFORE they executed their plan ? Did they have a “tip off”/mole ?
2. OK Tony seems to have got off scott-free, as he knows I predicted he would ! But what about those with CSOs under threat of imprisonment ?
In what world does receiving a suspended prison sentence equate to getting off ‘scott free’?
I used to wonder how on earth the Nazis found people to become guards at their murder camps – reading some of the comments from knuckle-draggers above I can see why, and that they would have had no problem finding candidates here either.
No doubt some of these barely-humans voted a few years ago to ‘get back control’ – I wonder what their reaction is to the documented (and apparently successful) interference in cases like this by the rogue state Israel.
Most of the “rent a crowd” is Tony just using multiple names. It is his standard way when responding to these articles. It is why I dropped back to have a good laugh. He doesn’t realise how obvious his alt+names are. He assumes just changing how he does punctuation will fool people.
It is sad to see a cause like this having its reputation damaged by people like Tony.
This isn’t the Tony Blair of WMD fame is it? Surely not someone using someone else’s name is it?
To all those who support Israel and demand that we recognise it I have a question – which Israel in what borders is it that you want us to recognise?
Congratulations to Jo Wadsworth on an excellent detailed report on Greenstein’s criminal conviction.
I have 1 query – The Judge stated in his summing up that Greenstein had no ” relevant convictions ” ?
This seems to imply that Greenstein had other unrelated convictions ?
There is reference above to stolen cheques – Can Mr Greenstein provide more details ?
Also, where is Greenstein going to do his 80 hours unpaid community work ?
The simple facts are: The police stopped a hired vehicle that “Greenstein (also known by an alias) had hired from a firm otherwise entirely unconnected with him or his passengers. Was this a “fluke” or did the police get “tipped-off” ? Apparently Greenstein has admitted, to supporters attending Wolverhampton Court, he was aware there was an informer ! When they were interdicted – nothing untoward had happened, nor has since happened ! All those being driven around by Greenstein were “in on it” and had no interest in being arrested or the police getting “tipped-off”. The police never named their informer and without naming him would not have had sufficient evidence to prove anything untoward. (Driving vehicles with passengers, paint & hammers is not an offences !)
So the interesting questions are : Were the police flukilly very lucky or were they tipped-off ?
Why, after evasively saying they were just “driving around”, did Greenstein publish a blog confirming all they prosecution wanted to make their case, so well, that they did not have to produce their informer ? Can Tony publish another blogg ?
This sounds a bit of a conspiracy theory. But anything is possible with wacky Greenstein. He may be a Mossad agent, planted to damage the cause he pretends to support ?
But the facts we definitely know about Greenstein -:
– He is an undischarged bankrupt. I.e. failed to pay moneys he owes.
– He is a convicted criminal.
– He was kicked out of Labour.
– He was booted out of Unison Trade Union.
– Something untoward happened in his student days. ( See above)
– He has a reputation for abusive behaviour.
– He currently has a 9 month prison sentence. ( Suspended for 2 years)
– He has been sentenced to 80 hours unpaid community work.
Unfortunately silly Sambazza’s facts are not all they seem.
i. I am not an undischarged bankrupt. I was discharged over a year ago for not paying the Campaign Against Antisemitism, a Zionist ‘charity’ lots of money!! No regrets there.
ii. I resigned from UNISON after having been suspended for calling a scab official Steve Terry a scab. It’s called freedom of speech.
iii. I was expelled from the Labour Party, the first Jew to be expelled but not the last one, as a result of the fake ‘antisemitism’ nonsense.
iv. I was elected and re -elected as Vice President of the Student Union (1977-79). Nothing untowards happened by why let the truth interfere with a lie.
iv. I only abuse racists like Sambazza.
But Sambazzaa like most of the right-wing trolls on this discussion can’t handle the issues, viz taking action against an arms factory that has been arming even the genocidal Myanamar Junta amongst others – he engages in a series of ad hominems, most of them untrue or half truths (or half-lies)
That is because the apologists for Israeli war crimes have nothing to say. In that they are no different from their brothers in groups like the Anglo German Fellowship who, in their desire to defend Hitler and Moseley, also smeared their anti-fascist opponents.. Nothing much changes because defending capitalism and its settler colonial offshoots is difficult so best to smear those who fight for justice.
Thus it ever was.
Interesting that Greenstein can’t deny he is a convicted criminal.
Nor can he deny he was a bankrupt, kicked out of Labour & Unison.
But I can also add to the list, that like Mosely & Hitler ( who he mentions), the courts have confirmed Greenstein can be identified as a ” Notorious antisemite”.
Enjoy your 80 hours unpaid community service Tony.