Gilad Atzmon is a jazz & world music artist, a novelist and an author focusing on ID politics.
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Gilad Atzmon on Rosie Charalambous' Cyprus Digest.
We spoke about Palestine, the Right of Return, Israel, Judaism, Jewishness and Zionism. I explained why Jewish solidarity is a problematic concept and why Early Zionism was a promising development.-- it vowed to make Jerusalem into the new Athens. Zionism obviously failed. It was hijacked, initially by Jewishness and later by Judaism.
Read MoreLike other Jewish ethnic activists of his ilk, David Rich is upset that my work is endorsed and praised by some of the greatest humanists and scholars around. It is past time that Rich and his klan of Judeo-centric zealots understand that authentic leftists and humanists do not take 'instructions' from Zionists.
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Interpreting the Zionist Dream
“The socio-economic structure of the Jewish people differs radically from that of other nations. Ours is an anomalous, abnormal structure.” (Ber Borochov- The Economic Development of the Jewish People 1917)
“You [Jews] lack the right notion of honour, feeling for duty, morality, patriotism, idealism….” (Max Nordau - Address at the 1st Zionist Congress 1897)
“But labour is the only force which binds man to the soil… it is the basic energy for the creation of national culture. This is what we do not have, but we are not aware of missing it. We are a people without a country, without a national living language, without a national culture. We seem to think that if we have no labour it does not matter - let Ivan, John or Mustafa do the work…” (A.D. Gordon, "Our Tasks Ahead" 1920)
Early Zionism was indeed a cheerful dream, it was all about the transformation of the ‘Jew’ into a ‘civilised, respectful and authentic human being’. The founders of Zionism were inspired by the notions of ‘people like any other people’ and ‘nation amongst nations’. Reading early Zionists such as Nordau, Borochov and Gordon provides us with some very contemptuous references to Jewish character and identity that would make Nazi ideology look mildly liberal.