Gilad Atzmon is a jazz & world music artist, a novelist and an author focusing on ID politics.
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“How is it related to Grenfell Tower? Very simple. People who think things through, people who understand responsibility, morality and ethics don’t clad buildings all over the country with flammable materials.” Gilad Atzmon at Reading International Festival, JC 31.10.17Read More
In the world in which we live, Black lives do not matter at all, Palestinians are imprisoned behind walls, Syrians are dispossessed refugees, Bangladesh is under water. The revolution is not an event in time, it is an on going task. To Be in Time is to accept that we, the people, were institutionally betrayed by our politicians, media, academia and even by the cultural industry that reduced beauty into a commodity. The only people who are left to tell the truth are us, the deprived jazz artists. Why? Because we have nothing to lose (and probably nothing better to do).
Read MoreThe Brits who saw Rachel Eden and her Zombie league performing their collective book burning ritual, should ask themselves, is Rachel Eden really British parliament material? Knesset more likely.
Read MoreGilad Atzmon, the expat Israeli saxophonist, clarinetist and author, has bitten off as least as much as he can chew on the subject of Israeli-Palestinian politics (his new book is titled Being in Time: A Post-Political Manifesto). This homage to his teenage hero John Coltrane is a less risky pursuit for an artist of Atzmon’s sublime musicality and skill....
Read MoreIn this talk (22.10.2017), Gilad Atzmon delves into the crucial dichotomy between Athens and Jerusalem. Atzmon argues that the dystopia in which we live is the direct outcome of a Jerusalemite set of 'correct ideas' over the Athenian search for reason, essence and logos. Tyranny of correctness, Identitarian divisiveness, the battle against historicity are symptoms of Jerusalemite thinking, they did little but derail the Western ethos. To rescue ourselves and what we believe to be our civilisation, Athens must be reinstated.
Read MoreI was invited to speak about my new book Being in Time - A Post Political Manifesto at Reading International Festival on October 22 2017. Zionist organisations were outraged. They mounted pressure on the venue and the council. They demanded the event cancelled. They mobilised a Rabbi to terrorise the resilient peace loving solidarity campaigners. Nothing worked. But one Labour Councillor was willing to do the Sabbos Goy job. Rachel Eden didn't bother to check who I am or what I stand for. She wants to be an MP, and she needs the paymasters at the LFI to approve her loyalty. I wish her luck,
Read MoreOn Fri 27 OCT - Sat 28 OCT Gilad Atzmon & The OHE
Tickets for the early shows are now running low, you better hurry up...
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Read MoreYet again, I have managed to unite them all, the Zionists, the so called ‘anti,’ you name it. For the last few days the Berkshire Orthodox Chief Rabbi has been working hard to cancel my book launch at Reading International Festival. Next, Jonathan Arkush, the chairman of the BOD, a body that claims to ‘represent British Jews,’ who also hates my guts begged others to cancel my Reading talk.
Read MoreZionism promised to make the Jews people like all other people. It vowed to 'civilise' the Diaspora Jews by means of 'homecoming' making them productive and ethical, Watch this Israeli superb documentary film and judge for yourself whether Zionism has fulfilled its promise to the Jews
Read MoreI learned from the Jewish Chronicle today that Berkshire Jews are “horrified” because yours truly has “challenged Holocaust denial legislation.” What caused the present outbreak of Pre Traumatic Stress? Apparently, my Sunday book launch at the Reading International Festival.
Read MoreDuke Ellington's exquisite "In A Sentimental Mood," the first track on their memorable team-up album for Impulse! is here given a luscious treatment with the subtle addition of strings. "Invitation," the Coltrane version of which was found on Standard Coltrane a 1962 Prestige release but actually recorded in 1958. Like that version it's given a slow ballad treatment with Atzmon on sultry tenor augmented by the string quartet.
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In order to receive Hurricane Harvey assistance in the city of Dickinson, Texas one has to agree not to boycott Israel...
Read MoreNo one exemplifies the sickening attitude of the Jerusalemite better than Mondoweiss, a Jewish progressive outlet openly dedicated to the concealment of Jewish power and the political impact of Jewish culture. Mondweiss’ editorial staff seems utterly confused by Miko Peled’s momentary endorsement of universal freedom of speech.
Read MoreIt is clear that in the new narrative, citizenship is biologically and not geographically determined. It seems odd that so many in the West who claim to oppose racism, so easily accept a race-based system of ethnic cleansing.
Read MoreFinally, the 2012 documentary Gilad and all that Jazz made it to youtube. You can now enjoy this great film by Golriz Kolahi. You can meet Gilad's bitterest adversaries and judge for yourself whether they have something to offer. You can listen to Gilad's music, meet the OHE, the Blockheads, Robert Wyatt, his family and obviously learn about Gilad's thoughts.
Read MoreI’ve been an admirer of Coltrane’s music since re-discovering his work when I was in College twelve years ago, and with The Spirit of Trane, it’s one of the most emotional, beautiful, and touching tributes to the master that Gilad and the Orient House ensemble brings here. As he once said again about music, “I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.”
Read MoreLesher proclaims that he won’t tolerate attacks on his"religious life just because they come wrapped in a Palestinian flag.” This seems to be a legitimate demand. I wouldn’t like to see anyone interfering with Lesher or anyone else’s religious life. Interestingly, none of the quotes in Lesher’s article posited any form of interference or threat to Lesher’s ‘religious life.’
Read MoreEARLY SHOW - The Spirit of Trane
Doors open at 7 pm
LATE SHOW - Bird with Strings Tribute
Doors open at 10 pm
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Conflation is usually understood as the merging of two or more distinct sets of information, texts, ideas, etc. into one. Does this concept apply to Zionism and Judaism? Are Zionism and Judaism distinct terms? Are Jews and Zionism categorically different from each other?
Read MoreThe following article was published on this site in May 2013. In recent weeks we have witnessed some anti Zionist rabbinical Jews outraged by the attempt to equate Judaism and Zionism. I plan to write on the topic extensively but a brief look at this 1942 rabbinical affirmation of Zionism is rather revealing:
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