Come Home for Hanukkah
Just another glimpse into Jewish tribalism and anti assimilationist campaign (An ad campaign urges Israelis to return home)
The Chanukah Pantomime
After weeks of relentless attempts by Zionist outlets such as the BOD (Board Of Deputies of British Jews), Harry's Place and the Jewish Chronicle to stop me from playing at 'Raise Your Banners' Festival, I met my audience in Bradford.
And here is what they had to say....
The Wandering Who-A Study of Zionist and AZZ tactics - available on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Laura Stuart: Can the Solidarity Movement Contain Apologists ?
As an activist against Human Rights abuses, particularly of the sort that the Nazi style entity called Israel inflicts on Palestinians on a daily basis, I have been fortunate to be involved in some direct actions which were very effective in exposing among other things the illegal collective punishment on one and a half million Palestinians a.k.a. the Siege of Gaza. More recently I have had the privilege to attend many lectures by intellectuals on various subjects relating to zionism and it's evil ideology. A learning process which often finds me agreeing with most of what someone states as the issues facing Palestinians but perhaps not always agreeing on how each person or group sees the solution, such as was the case with the amazing Dr Norman Finkelstein lecture recently.
All protests, flotillas, convoys and lectures feature people of different religions (or none) from a broad spectrum of political backgrounds, yet amazingly there is a huge amount of solidarity across the board with everyone contributing in many different ways within their own area of expertise. The common thread holding us all together is a firm belief in Truth and Justice.
The Meir Institute report after the Mavi Marmara particularly noted, to their great consternation that Muslims (Islamists as they call politically active muslims) and people from every kind of religious and political background were able to unite against the common enemy of Zionist oppression. This is the real meaning of Solidarity.
Red Scribblings: Political Islam and ‘Jewish identity politics’ – a comparison
Gilad Atzmon: The following lengthy article by Red Scribblings proves that the issues raised by The Wandering Who are at the centre of today's philosophical and ideological thinking. It is no secret that Zionist lobbies together with some Jewish anti Zionists are desperate to stop the book or its author. I believe that they would actually do themselves a big favour reading the book first.
Political Islamist - Osama bin Laden
Theodore Herzl - Jewish analogue of political Islamist?
The controversy over Gilad Atzmon and his book The Wandering Who, which I recently reviewed on this blog, raises a lot of important questions about history and the politics of the last two centuries. I make no apology for writing about this question again because some of the issues he raises are of great importance to questions relating to war and peace, the nature of contemporary capitalism, national questions and the composition of major classes in society, particularly the capitalist class. All these questions are of central importance to anyone who wants to see capitalism superseded by socialism – they also touch intimately on questions intertwined with the causes of at least one world war in living memory, as well as other traumatic and world historic events including the currents wars and now revolutions shaking the Middle East and neighbouring regions and states. So its pretty important.
Atzmon is not a Marxist thinker, but an idiosyncratic left-wing liberal, born and raised in a racist ethnocracy. His own rejection of a racist upbringing and his privileged birthright as a Jew in a Jewish state, has generated some ferocious rhetoric and not a little incoherence and misunderstanding by friend and foe alike in some cases. But Atzmon’s writings are significant: this is also acknowledged by his enemies, usually rabid Zionists though also a few semi-Bundist socialists who on most issues are on the opposite side of the barricades to the Netan-yahoos. My point here is not to dwell on that conflict, but to acknowledge the significance of his work on ‘Jewish identity’. If it was just, as his enemies proclaim, reheated anti-semitism from the pre-WWII years, Atzmon would be unable to defend himself against a tidal wave of universal opprobrium.
Press TV: Zionists subjugating Britain's culture
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/212062.html
Following revelations last week that Zionist lobbies are feeding mainstream British media, it has now emerged that they are also meddling in the book and music industry of the UK to silence anti-Zionist voices.
Last week the British media carried a report that the news outlets including BBC, Sky News and Financial Times have “changed their narrative” to meet the Zionist regime's demands on the request of pro-Israeli lobbying group, Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM).
Now the outspoken anti-Zionist writers and instrumentalist, Gilad Atzmon, says Britain's “Zio-fascists” have been trying to suppress his voice through attempted blocking of his upcoming book title, "The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics", along with his music.
Lauren Booth: Three people in this marriage. The PSC, the JC and Harry’s Place
Gilad Atzmon: This is a crucial expose by the brave Lauren Booth- Enough is enough...
This week, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign has revealed itself to be ethically compromised at the highest level.
In recent months it has become clear that the central office of the PSC, are increasingly pandering to the whims of Israeli hasbara activists. Joining with the likes of the rabid Zionist site Harry’s Place in efforts to silence some of this movement’s most outspoken and popular, thinkers.
This week, Sarah Colborne, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, was quoted in the pro Israeli paper, the Jewish Chronicle, as supporting a boycott of the highly renowned musician and academic Gilad Atzmon. Atzmon was booked to perform in his professional capacity as a saxaphonist at an event celebrating political song in Bradford, called 'Raise your Banners.' The musician/author has recently published his best selling treatise on Jewish cultural identity called ‘The Wondering Who’. A work that, unlike Sarah Colborne, I have actually read, and can highly recommend, as it pulls no punches, when asking to what degree the racist idealogy - Zionism, when mixed with the Jewish sense of ‘Choseness’, is to blame for the existence of todays Apartheid Israel. It has been endorsed by some of the finest thinkers and writers on Israel/Palestine of our age.
But the subject matter alone (predictably) proved more than enough to have Atzmon, once again, falsely, branded an anti semite by the sections of the Jewish diaspora committed to stopping debate into their awkward, yet staunch, support for Israeli war crimes.
I am back from Bradford
4:20 am
In spite of weeks of Jewish extensive and relentless lobbying against me, my message. my book and my music, despite of a campaign that started with Jewish 'anti' Zionists and ended with a ludicrous demand by the Board of Deputy of British Jews to pull out my concert, Raise Your Banner Music Festival didn't surrender. They stood firmly for truth, justice and freedom of speech.
I guess that the message is clear, the Zionist lobby is falling apart!!!
The gig was a massive success. the room was sold out. We played for almost 3 hours for the most enthusiastic and supportive audience.
Also, In Bradford last night, there was not a single sign of protest against our concert. I guess that Sayan Nick Lowles who was very active falsifying documents in the name of Hope not Hate, probably realised towards the end of the week that the game was over for him. He is now exposed for what he is- an avid advocate of the Zionist crime.
I am off to bed now.
The Wandering Who-A Study of Zionist and AZZ tactics - available on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Hot of the press: Wikipedia has deleted the 'Sayanim' entry.
Wiki-Jews must have been very busy lately.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Sayanim
The Wandering Who-A Study of Zionist and AZZ tactics - available on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Truth not lies about Gilad Atzmon
Acording to Bradford activists, the following wil be distributed ahead of my Bradford concert
http://friendsofgilad.wordpress.com
Once again, the unholy alliance of Zionists and Islamophobes which has been trying to stop Gilad Atzmon playing his saxophone in Bradfordhas shot itself in the foot. Not content with misquoting and misrepresenting Atzmon’s analysis of his own Jewish identity, it has now stooped to similar tactics, aimed at a senior Anglican clergyman at the city’s Cathedral.
On November 22, Nick Lowles’ misnamed “Hope Not Hate” website – which would better be called Lies Not Truth – proclaimed: “Dean of Bradford calls for Atzmon’s invite to be withdrawn.” This was a lie.
Immediately Lowles’ claim was drawn to the Dean’s attention, he denied it. He said that he had become aware of the controversial nature, not only of Gilad Atzmon, but also “of the statements made about him”. The Dean has confirmed that he had asked those who had contacted him to provide proper evidence of anti-Semitism by Mr Atzmon, but he says: “I received very little, some of which I could identify as being mis-reporting out of context of the kind to which Mr Atzmon [has] drawn attention.”
And a malpractice to which David Ison has now been subjected.
This sorry affair highlights the need for a critical examination of the role in the anti-fascist movement of Hope Not Hate, the magazine Searchlight, and the “Harry’s Place” blog which hosts Hope not Hate and Searchlight announcements, and which gained the Islamic Human Rights Commission’s Annual Islamophobia Award in 2006.
Searchlight’s links with the British secret services have been known since 1986, when the investigative journalist, Robin Ramsay, reported that “Searchlight is run, if not by, then certainly with the co-operation of, MI5″, (Lobster, No 11, April 1986, p12). The following year, Jewish Chronicle said that Searchlight had “a wide range of contacts (including people in the secret services)”, (Jewish Chronicle 23/10/1987).
Hope Not Hate played a very divisive role inBradfordwhen the English Defence League hooligans threatened to march through the city. Local citizens planned a simultaneous multi-cultural event in the city centre under the rubric of “We Are Bradford” and when plans for this were agreed with the police, a few Hope Not Hate supporters split off and encouraged Bradford City Council to organise a disruptive event well out of the city centre.
As it happened, “We Are Bradford” was supported by several thousand people from all over the country, while the split-off attracted a few hundred.
Gilad Atzmon: Hope not Hate
Hope not Hate is presented as a British anti racist/anti Fascist organsisation but in fact it is an offshoot of the notoriously Zionist Searchlight magazine. As if this is not enough, its leader Nick Lowles also co-posts on Harry’s Place, the infamous anti-Muslim site and winner of the Islamic Human Rights Commission's 'Annual Islamophobia Awards' 2006. Harry’s Place is known as a Hasbara pro-war Neo-Con outlet and is, in my opinion, far more dangerous of any English right wing party. Harry’s Place openly serves foreign interests, and promotes clear racist ideology in clear opposition to everything we hold to be associated with Western pluralism and tolerance.
Could you imagine any humanist, anti-racist posting news items on an Islamophobic Neocon, Zionist pro-war site? Well, I suppose this is the price that we pay in Britain for turning a blind eye for so long to Zionist stooges.
But now their game is over. I will not be silent about this or anything else - and I am not alone. Despite not being a member of any party, league or group and although I speak with my own voice, I am surrounded by the most supportive people. Hundreds of thousands of them who, just like me, believe in Truth, Peace and Justice, as opposed to the Lies, Falsification and Deceit of Hope not Hate, Nick Lowels, Harry’s Place and the rest.
Professing the Crusade: Shedding Light on Come from the Shadows by C. L. Cook
An expose of just another 'moral' interventionist
I recently interviewed Terry Glavin, author of 'Come from the Shadows: the long and lonely struggle for peace in Afghanistan.'
The book is a treatise arguing a necessary continuation of the decades-old war the "West" has waged against "Islamists" and "fascists" in Afghanistan.
Here is a link to an audio file of the interview. (Square brackets indicate the time where a given quote can be accessed. Glavin's segment begins at [35:30]).
Glavin is a Canadian, particularly concerned with Canada's continued contribution to 'The Mission' in Afghanistan. He uses that nation's abject suffering at the hands of the Taliban as justification for the largely unrecorded ISAF slaughter of civilians in their thousands through night raids, drone missile attacks, deaths in custody by torture, (at the hands of Afghan police, military, and the internal security apparatus) and summary execution of suspect "militants."
Glavin is a Canadian, particularly concerned with Canada's continued contribution to 'The Mission' in Afghanistan. He uses that nation's abject suffering at the hands of the Taliban as justification for the largely unrecorded ISAF slaughter of civilians in their thousands through night raids, drone missile attacks, deaths in custody by torture, (at the hands of Afghan police, military, and the internal security apparatus) and summary execution of suspect "militants."
His mission, he says, is to speak for Afghanistan's women, bringing them universal suffrage and equal rights.
To read more: http://www.pacificfreepress.com
Islamophic Harry’s Place campaigns against Palestinian Shadia Mansour
By Gilad Atzmon
After weeks of intensive campaigning against Norman Finkelstein’s, Sarah Gillepie’s and my own freedom of expression, the rabid Zionist outlet Harry’s place is now launching a campaign against the Great Shadia Mansour
Apparently they are annoyed by a UK Foreign and Commonwealth ‘s Youtube video produced ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games.
It is pretty staggering that those pro-war who are advocating global wars in the name of ‘freedom of speech’ are apparently adamant opponent of such a freedom here in Britain when it doesn’t suit their morbid Zio-centric world views.
To watch Shadia's video:
Yet One More Glimpse into Zionist Desperation
By Gilad Atzmon
Yesterday evening Zionist ‘Hope not Hate’ declared victory in their ‘battle against Atzmon’. “The Dean of Bradford calls for Atzmon's invite to be withdrawn” trumpeted Nick Lowles’ headline on their official blog.
Nick Lowles (only last week exposed here as an avid Zionist operator) declared that the “The Dean of Bradford has added his name to the growing chorus of outrage at the decision of Raise Your Banners to invite antisemite Gilad Atzmon to perform for them in Bradford on Friday”.
Lowles was lying. He made it up. When I read the Dean’s words, it was immediately clear that his ‘statement’ was, like other Nick Lowles’ productions - just a stitching together of carefully selected sentences.
Lawless Lowles had claimed that Dean David Ison categorically ruled against myself and the coming concert but (again!) he failed to produce any document to substantiate such a claim. Lowles probably believed that, faced with the usual pressures, David Ison would turn and run for cover. .
But Lowles was mistaken. David Ison is clearly made of stronger stuff because today, the Dean was in touch with both a member of his congregation and myself and confirmed that he has become “aware of the controversial nature, not only of Gilad Atzmon”, but also of the statements made about Atzmon. The Dean also confirmed that he had asked those who had contacted him to provide proper evidence of anti-Semitism on the part of Mr. Atzmon, but, as he says, he “received very little, some of which I could identify as being mis-reporting out of context of the kind to which you and Mr Atzmon have drawn
Hope not Hate Is Caught Falsifying Documents Again.
Following lies spread by Zionist operator Nick Lowles and Hope Not Hate, the Dean of Bradford published the following statement:
/Statement from the Dean of Bradford 23rd November 2011:
"Raise Your Banners booked the Cathedral for a concert some months ago, but did not notify us of any controversial issues to do with any of the performers. I have become aware of the controversial nature of Gilad Atzmon and the statements made about him, since being contacted by the Council for Christians and Jews a few weeks ago. The concert was recently withdrawn from the Cathedral owing to slow ticket sales, but had the venue not changed I would have considered not allowing it to take place as, although I have had no clear evidence of anti-semitism or racism, the perception of this around Gilad Atzmon would have made it an inappropriate concert to hold in a religious building.
The headline on the Hope not Hate blog of 22 November, which says that I have called for the concert to be cancelled does not relate my words to their context. I wrote in response to a particular comment on Nick Lowles' blog of 19 November which called for a lobby of the Cathedral and the Bishop to get them to withdraw the invitation to Gilad Atzmon.//The statement clarifies that we did not make the invitation, reiterates that the concert is not happening on church premises, and //raises concerns but does not make allegations about what Mr Atzmon has said; nor does it make a call for the invitation to Mr Atzmon to be withdrawn. I simply say that I am passing on the concerns I had received to Kala Sangam. I do not in the statement tell Kala Sangam what to do with those concerns. I accept that Raise Your Banners and Kala Sangam are making their own judgements about this issue.
Our concern is to be clear that Bradford Cathedral is committed to working for truth, peace and justice for Palestinians and Israelis, of whatever faith." /
A glimpse into a desperate Zionist smear campaign
They lie, falsify, forge and surprise surprise ... it doesn't work.
Taken from the notorious Jewish supremacist brockley.blogspot.com
TAKE ACTION! I think it is outrageous that Raise Your Banners has invited Gilad Atzmon to perform, not as a musician but as a political figure. They claim that they want to promote a “diversity of views”, but I notice that they have not this year or in any previous year invited White Power skinhead bands, for example, or Ulster Unionist pipe bands, or even Tory folk musicians. Would they invite homophobic and misogynistic rappers, for example, because they had also written excellent left-wing songs? Would they invite a fine socialist songwriter who had a track record of anti-black racism? It seems to me there are a number of ways we can take action.
- Put pressure on the organisers. Express your disgust that the festival is inviting a racist performer. Sam Jackson is the event secretary who put out the odd PSC statement. Ludi Simpson is variously described as treasurer, director and organiser of the Atzmon bit. (Is that the same Ludi Simpson who does excellent statistical research at Manchester University? If so, his research skills have failed him here, as googling Gilad Atzmon would be enough to put anyone sensible off.) Contact details are here (the phone number is 07530 243874), and you can also follow the festival on Facebook or Twitter.
- Put pressure on the Arts Council. It seems to me that at a time when public money is so tightly rationed, it gives a lot of ammunition to the enemy of arts funding that they are spending taxpayers’ money on a festival that hosts a known racist. How would they feel if their budget went towards someone like David Irving or David Duke as to show "a diverse view of world society", because that’s basically what they are doing.
- Put pressure on the Co-op, who are also a funder according to the website. I am a member, and I don’t like this use of Co-operative funds. Website here.
- Put pressure on the venue. In this case, that’s the Church of England! A HnH commenter writes: “This event happens at Bradford Cathedral (01274 777720). You need to speak to diocesan Bishop of Bradford Nick Baines, and if that doesn't work, make a direct appeal to the Church of England hierarchy. Giving a forthright anti-semite permission to play his concert at a cathedral would make disastrous headlines for the Church of England, if the media were to get hold of it. http://www.visitbradford.com/thedms.asp?dms=13&feature=1256&venue=1570382 UPDATE: Apparently, due to poor ticket sales, the venue has shifted from the Cathedral to the smaller Kala Sangan, also funded by the Arts Council. You can follow them on Twitter too, by the way. And, in an outbreak of sensibleness, the Dean of Bradford has come out against Atzmon.
- Ask other performers to pull out if Atzmon is not dis-invited. Apart from Martin Carthy, Peggy Seeger and Roy Bailey, I haven’t heard of many of the performers, but they’re listed here: John Tams and Barry Coope, Ewan McLennan and Robb Johnson, Amsterdam, Seize the Day and the Hall Brothers, Tina McKevitt and Matt Hegarty. (The great violinist Omar Puente has pulled out: I can't find information about why, but I’d like to think it is because he prefers not to share a stage with a racist.) These performers might be swayed by Richard Seymour’s letter to Zer0 Books.
- Urge your union branch to follow Bradford TUC in condemning the event.
- Consider picketing or even disrupting the event. Everybody Hates a Tourist has a post about the event, and urges anyone interested in taking action to get in touch with him.
From De-Nazification to 'De-Antisemitification' By Evelyn Hecht-Galinski
Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: From time to time, I do meet some very brave Jews, people who fight for humanism while stripping themselves of any trace of choseness and exeptionalism. Evelyn Hecht-Galinski is such a person.
From De-Nazification to 'De-Antisemitification'
After 1945, my father issued a 'Denazification Certificate' to the then GDR leader Erich Honecker, amongst others.
In today's sad present, a point is already reached where critics of Israel have to be provided with a 'Antisemitism-free Certificate' in order to kosherize them.
A point is already reached where representatives of Jewish interests are pressing to prevent public appearances of any such critic perceived as dangerous to them for simply working on the basis of facts.
A son of German Jewish immigrants, Prof. Ilan Pappe was banned by the highest representative of the city of Munich, Mayor Christian Ude (Social Democratic Party, SPD), from delivering a public talk in a local cultural centre. In Vienna the 'Wiener Zeitung' (Vienna newspaper) called him a 'controversial' historian with the aim of challenging his appearance at a conference right from the start. Public funding is being withdrawn in order to nip all criticism of Israel in the bud. In Freiburg, it was only by means of a court order that the cancellation of a Nakba exhibition in public spaces could be averted. Then the city of Düsseldorf staged a replay of its inglorious past: the early eighties had already seen the enforcement of a ban on performing Joshua Sobol's “The Palestinian Girl” at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (Düsseldorf theatre) at the instigation of Mr. Scheinmann, president of the local Jewish community. Even my public protest, e.g. in WDR-TV and in various print media, didn't succeed in lifting the ban. It was, however, possible to get "asylum" at the theatre in Bonn (general director Volker Canaris from Düsseldorf). In these days, it is again Düsseldorf that prevented a Nakba exhibition.
Oy Vey, The Zionist Campaign Backfired Again
Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: According to Mark Gardner, the communications director of the CST, probably one of the most racist Zionist organisations in this country, it is really down to Jews to decide who will appear on British stages. "Festival organisers should have consulted Jews first" says Gardner. I guess that it is just a question of time before every performer in this country is obliged to register with the CST and apply for a Kosher certificate.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
Calls for musician's show to be cancelled
Organisers of a Bradford festival of political song have defended the scheduled appearance of a controversial jazz musician.
Israeli-born jazz saxophonist Gilad Atzmon, who is also a novelist, political activist and writer, will be performing as part of an international concert with a UK singer, a Jewish bass player, a Palestinian Oud player and a black drummer on Friday.
But there have been calls for his appearance to be halted over claims he is a Holocaust denier and has anti-semitic views – claims that Mr Atzmon strongly rejected.
Bradford Trades Union Council has condemned the performance in a letter to festival organisers, and The Board of Deputies of British Jews has also protested to the Arts Council over its funding for the Raise Your Banners 2011 festival and asked it to intervene to stop him performing.
Nahida Izzat: Who are the Warmongers?
Did you ever ponder about the question: Who is promoting America's wars?
Who pushed for the war on Iraq?
Who is pushing for another war on Iran?
Who is promoting concepts of American Exceptionalism., military necessity, and "leadership with muscle"?
Who is indoctrinating American police and public with "educational" programmes of "Law Enforcement"?
Who is fomenting hatred against Islam and Muslims just to conceal their criminality by pretending to be the spearhead fighting the war against terror and extremism?
Who is offering courses in combating terrorism with their "superb anti-terror schools"?
Who is posing as the world leading authority in understanding and explaining "terror" related issues?
Who is supporting a pariah entity and promoting its interests despite all its violations of Human Rights and International Law?
Who are those who hold key positions in USA policy making and Homeland Security despite being advocates and supporters of a supremacist racist Jewish group?
Who is forcing us to go through radiating machines under the pretext of fighting terrorism while expanding and making a fortune in the process?
Who is fermenting by deception, all sorts of wars and conflicts yet deceivingly they pose as the protector of peace and security?
Who is honouring and celebrating murderers and baby killers?
to read more:
http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com
The Wandering Who-A Study of avid wrmongering available on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
ZIONISTS WON'T LET YOU SEE THIS ON YOUR TV
This is old but very powerful..
Ask yourself: Why aren't Americans shown these honest facts on any of the over 1,700 major media outlets?
and WHAT OTHER INFO IS BEING WITHELD?
Rachel Corrie: 'a true hero' was killed by the state of Israel, and by its brutal regime that practises not only 'mass punishment' but also 'ethnic cleansing'. The same regime that has displaced over 4 million Palestinians, and killed many thousands. The same regime that has denied the right to self-determination to the Palestinian people.
A regime that systematically destroys the lives of innocents every single DAY.