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Britain accused of collaborating with Israel over Salah arrest

Arab Israelis and Palestinians say arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah in London is 'strange' and 'illegitimate', and call for his release

..."Ben White, a writer and activist who was due to speak at an event with Salah on Wednesday, said there was a stark contrast between how Britain treated Palestinian and Israeli leaders. 'The same government that sent police to arrest a Palestinian civil society leader from his hotel bedroom is changing UK legislation explicitly to facilitate the entry of accused Israeli war criminals.'

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/29/sheikh-raed-salah-arrest-britain-accused

 

American Indian "Jimbo" Simmons Gaza Flotilla Interview

Jimbo Simmons is a member of the Choctaw Nation and of the Governing Council of the American Indian Movement, which resists colonization, respects traditional knowledge and self-determination, and raises awareness on issues that concern Indians of the Americas, from racism to protection of sacred sites, the rights of the child, treaties, political prisoners, police brutality, immigration and militarization, climate change and the United Nations General Assembly "Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He is in solidarity with Palestinians and all indigenous peoples that are subjected to expulsion and ethnic cleansing. 

 

 

Arthur Billy: Requiem for the Dead of Gaza

Introduction by Gilad Atzmon:  This is a pretty extensive and devastating presentation of the Israeli crime in Gaza. I met Arthur Billy  last month in San Francisco. Billy, born in pre 1948 Palestine  is a nuclear scientist and an incredibly kind human being.

The combination of the music and the images is very powerful, yet, bear in mind that Billy is not a film maker. As far as I am aware he  assembled this presentation using Power Point. He had a very limited editing capacity. Yet, the spirit is there, the aesthetic is there and the impact of Israeli barbarism is there all the way through.

Thanks Arthur for your time, effort and care.

 

Arthur Billy & William A.Cook: This presentation is a Memorial and a Requiem for the Dead of Gaza, Honouring the Valiant Palestinian People and a Monument to the People of Gaza.

May this requiem force the Israelis and all who view this testament to share the suffering and the pain of the Palestinian people with all the compassion the souls of humans everywhere should feel for one another.

Should the United States of America House of Representatives, and the Senate care to spend two hours in rapt meditation witnessing the reality of the slaughter they supported in Israel's invasion of Gaza, even their gold plated hearts would melt at the brutality, the ruthlessness, the absolute mercilessness of the state they support with such sanctimonious sentiments when they slither up the AIPAC carpet to seek their favor and forget the consequences to their immortal souls. http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/06/tel-aviv-on-the-potomac

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Gilad Atzmon: Self Reflection in Mondoweiss

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I would like to draw your attention to an interesting thread on Mondoweiss, discussing my interview with Philip Weiss.

To read the Mondoweiss thread, click here.

It doesn’t take a genius to work out that Philip Weiss didn’t feel very comfortable with the publication of my interview with him -- In fact no one, including myself, felt comfortable with it , and some editors told me they were more than a little surprised that Weiss had agreed to my publishing it. But the truth of the matter is that Weiss gave me a green light after reading it all, and I salute him for his courage.

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Gilad Atzmon: And What About Jewish Anti Gentile Studies?

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American Jewry won a victory last week: Yale University bowed to pressure - it is now starting yet another initiative to study anti-Semitism, after a decision to cancel an earlier programme had sparked criticism.

The earlier programme created in 2006 was cancelled because it had produced  "little scholarly work,” and the institute's courses had not attracted large numbers of students, according to Donald Green, the director of Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

Abe Foxman of The Anti-Defamation League criticised Yale for cancelling the programme and welcomed the new initiative, saying "We are satisfied that Yale University understood the critical importance of continuing an institute for the study and research of anti-Semitism".

The new programme will be led by Yale professor Maurice Samuels, who states that Yale has some of the leading scholars in the world working on anti-Semitism and interfaith relations. He intends to focus on contemporary and historical anti-Semitism.

However, for all Yale’s efforts, I remain convinced that Samuels will not be able to produce any valuable scholarly work either - the reason is simple: almost the entire body of research on ‘anti Semitism ’ conducted in recent decades is solely concerned and obsessed with recording the historical points at which hatred of the Jews manifests itself. And yet, for some bizarre reason, such scholarly work on anti Semitism never seeks to understand, and is totally impervious to the socio-economic, the ideological, theological and historical contexts, motivations, causes and reasoning that have existed behind such outbursts of hatred against the Jews. 

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I Certainly Do Not Want To Wake Up Next To This Joker

Israel’s “pinkwash” makes cynical use of gays & gay rights

Israel’s latest hasbara schtick falls flat in days

A couple of days ago, a Youtube video of some guy calling himself Mark popped up. Mark claimed to be an American gay rights activist who decided to broaden his horizons and, going all hog, decided to join the Gaza flotilla, representing the gay rights group of which he is a member. He sent an email to the flotilla organizers, but – alas! – after waiting for quite a while, received a negative reply. Upon which Mark experienced a Road to Damascus moment, the scales fell from his eyes, and he saw the bright, shining light of truth: The flotilla is organized by Hamas-supporting Islamists, all of whom are good friends with Ismail Hanyieh.

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US Embassy in TelAviv: Israelis, Dont Break Our Immigration Laws

A week ago US Embassy in Tel Aviv posted the following video and statement on Youtube:

"Over the past few years, some Israelis wanting to work in the U.S. have been saying during visa interviews that they want to go to the U.S. only as tourist travelers. After their arrival at a U.S. airport and questioning by immigration inspectors, the true purpose of their U.S. trip is then discovered. What can follow is detention, possibly a court hearing, and then an immediate return to Israel along with a multi-year ban on future travels to the United States.

This video features Israelis speaking honestly about their negative experience, resulting from an attempt to break the law, go around the system, and act illegally."

I guess that America starts to show some clear signs of fatigue.

Sarah Gillespie: ‘How The West Was Won’

(Gilad Atzmon: I perform  with Sarah and produce her music for a few years. Sarah  is an incredible talent: singer song writer, poet and a thinker. Check her out and take a look at the video bellow.)

Sarah Gillespie: Over a year ago I went to see Andy Worthington and Polly Nash’s brilliant documentary 'Outside the Law, Stories from Guantánamo'. I wrote a paper about it here. It is the kind of film you can’t shake off. It leaves you with a lingering sense of what it might mean to be arbitrarily captured, tortured, humiliated and left without any plausible hope of reprieve. It evokes the cataclysmic trauma and despair, the heavy grief of all those stolen years.  One British resident still flounders in this zone of no jurisdiction. He is Shaker Aarmer. There is no legal reason for his continued incarceration. He has never been charged with a crime and there is no reliable evidence against him. After seeing Andy and Polly’s film I was haunted by Aamer’s plight, by the suffering of his wife who still lives in Battersea where she has been repeatedly hospitalized with nervous breakdowns - and by the awareness that, while I look forward to going out for dinner tonight in London, Shaker Aamer is still in Guantánamo

 

‘How The West Was Won’ - A Song For Shaker Aamer 
by Sarah Gillespie 

 

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Addressing Some Typical Zionist Questions

Gilad Atzmon: A Zionist blitzed me this morning with a few questions. I thought they were pretty interesting and decided to share my answers with my readers.

Q: is there any definition in your lexicon of what an anti Semite is?

GA: "The Anti Semites" is an open list of the people the Jewish people hate.
 
Q: Do you consider yourself Jewish?

GA: I haven't been a Jew for many years -- but I still may be slightly Jewish.  This is unfortunate, but I try to deal with it.

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Israeli undercover agents boast of killing Palestinians on TV*

 

JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Undercover Israeli intelligence officers appeared on national television Saturday to talk about assassinating Palestinians in a program broadcast on Israel's Channel 10.

Oren Beaton presented a photo album of Palestinians he killed during his time as a commander of an undercover Israeli unit operating in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Beaton explained that he kept photos of his victims.

"This is a photo of a Palestinian young man called Basim Subeih who I killed. This is another young man. I shredded his body, and the photo shows the remnants of his body," he said.
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Movement for One Democratic state (ODS)-A New Web Site

A message from Dr. Samir Abed-Rabbo:

Dear Friends,
I am happy to introduce you to the new site of the  in Palestine.: www.onedemocraticstate.org Please
visit the site and get acquainted with its sections. Our aim is to
create a premier functional site to promote the ideals of one
democratic state in historic Palestine for all its citizens including
all those who live there and all those who were expelled over the past
century and their descendants.
The Movement for One Democratic State invites all individuals and
organizations to join us and be involved with us in this effort. Your
ideas, comments, activities, and contributions to this effort are
welcomed and greatly appreciated. Please provide us with relevant
articles, documents, book reviews, photos, etc. for publication. Also,
help us plan and coordinate activities to further the ideals of the
Movement and the cause of Palestine!
Finally, I encourage you to read the Declaration of the Movement for
One Democratic State in Palestine. Please spread the news about this
Movement and the Declaration to your friends and on your social
networks.
I look forward to receive your feedback and continued involvement!
In Solidarity,
Dr. Samir Abed-Rabbo

Gilad Atzmon with Sammi Ibrahem-Unity Fm

On June 16 I was  guesting  with Palestinian activist, Sammi Ibrahem, on his radio show on  Unity FM, Birmingham. I was looking forward to meet Sammi, who is the man behind the invaluable   shoa.org.uk, a site dedicated to the Palestinian Holocaust.

I believe that the radio program will be interesting to those of us involved in the cause, and the topics are, indeed serious : we spoke about Israel, Palestine, Zionism, Holocaust, Nakba, Kashmir, and more.
 
The comical part of the talk however -- starring my stalker, Tony Greenstein -- starts around 19:51 and lasts  for about 7 minutes.

 

Face The Nation - 16 June 2011 - Part 1 by Gilad Atzmon

Face The Nation - 16 June 2011 - Part 2 by Gilad Atzmon

 

( Note : Also, I made a bit of a silly mistake in the  course of the discussion; I referred to Yitzhak Ben-Zvi as the first Israeli president. He was obviously the second.)