They stand with Tony.

Filmmakers, historians, journalists and fellow activists — including many Jewish anti-Zionist voices — on why the prosecution of Tony Greenstein is an attack on all of us.

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Ken Loach

Award-winning British socialist film director

“I have known Tony Greenstein for nearly 40 years. Tony is a remarkable man. He has devoted a large part of his life to exposing racism, hypocrisy, and oppression.

Tony tells the truth about the present, informed by evidence from the past. His research is thorough and rigorous, and I have always found it to be reliable. For some, these are inconvenient truths.

As time passes, it will be shown that Tony stands on the right side of history. Tony Greenstein is a man of integrity, and he commands our respect.”

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Ilan Pappé

Leading Israeli historian, University of Exeter · Jewish anti-Zionist

“I have known Tony Greenstein for more than a decade. We share much in common: we are both Jewish and we have devoted our active lives to the struggle against injustice and in particular against racism.

Tony’s kindness, humanity and humility shine through. He is very direct and does not spare criticism from friend and foe alike, but this honesty is what makes him a true and loyal friend. No one seems able to match his commitment to the struggle against injustice.

Tony is a man of peace and all his actions are non-violent. We are proud Jews, but we will not allow any ideology to use our collective identity for committing crimes against other people.”

- The charge, examined

“By any objective measure, it is not Tony but the British government who ought to be in the dock.”

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Avi Shlaim

Emeritus Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford · Fellow of the British Academy

“I have known Tony Greenstein for over twenty years, and I greatly admire him for his integrity, scholarship, political activism, and personal courage. His critique of Zionism is grounded in deep and original research.

Tony is charged with ‘inviting support’ for a proscribed organisation under the 2000 Terrorism Act. Tony, however, is not a supporter of Hamas but of the Palestinian right to resist the illegal, 58-year-old Israeli occupation — the most prolonged and brutal military occupation of modern times. His support has nothing to do with terrorism. The charges against him are therefore fundamentally flawed.

Tony comes from an orthodox Jewish home, and he personifies the Jewish values of altruism, truth, justice, and peace. The British government is not just complicit in the destruction of Gaza; it is an active partner in this horrendous exercise of state terrorism against a defenceless people.”

“We are in the midst of a wave of political persecution of any activism in support of the Palestinian people. Why? Because the UK is so evidently abetting Israel’s horrendous crimes in Gaza.

The prosecution of Tony Greenstein is a show trial, designed to send a warning to others to keep their heads down and stay silent in the face of genocide.”

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Jonathan Cook

Author of Disappearing Palestine · Martha Gellhorn Prize

“Tony Greenstein is one of the bravest anti-Zionist voices of our time. When Tony says “never again,” he means never again for everyone.

That principled stance is precisely why he is being targeted by the UK, a government complicit in the genocide in Gaza. This must not be allowed to happen.”

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Rania Khalek

Journalist · host of Dispatches, Breakthrough News

“I have known Tony Greenstein for well over 40 years. Throughout this time, he has been a consistent supporter of Palestinian rights, always backing up his arguments with carefully researched data and evidence.

He has strongly insisted on the distinction between antisemitism — which he has rigorously fought — and anti-Zionism.”

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Graham Bash

Political Officer, Jewish Voice for Liberation

“Tony Greenstein is one of the most honest and principled people I know. He has always fought for justice for oppressed people.

That this moral campaigner for justice should be persecuted for his beliefs is an outrage.”

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Ghada Karmi

Palestinian-British doctor, academic & author

“Tony Greenstein — a leading Jewish anti-Zionist activist and author of the ground-breaking monograph Zionism During the Holocaust — is facing charges under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

The idea that Tony, a principled anti-racist supporter of the rights of the Palestinians, can be charged in this manner is a legal outrage, exposing the moral, cultural and juridical decline of the British state.”

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Haim Bresheeth

Filmmaker & retired Professor, UEL · Jewish anti-Zionist

“Tony Greenstein is a pugnacious and indefatigable campaigner for justice with a terrible taste in T-shirts.

Anti-Zionist Jews such as Tony are primary targets because they give the lie to the idea that Israel speaks for all Jews — which it very much doesn’t.”

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Alexei Sayle

Comedian, author & actor · Jewish anti-Zionist

“I have known Tony Greenstein for very many years as a staunch and fearless defender of freedom of thought and speech, and a fighter against racism of all varieties, including antisemitism.

He is a resolute campaigner for the rights of the oppressed Palestinian people and against Israel’s genocidal war waged on them.”