Gilad Atzmon is a jazz & world music artist, a novelist and an author focusing on ID politics.
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"Like a surgeon's knife cutting through crap to the kernel of truth! Courageous and exhilarating!" Inge Etzbach (In the Land of Milk and Honey: The Struggle for the Jewish Soul)
The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics, Jewish political interest, and the role of the Harry's Places around.
Introduction by GA: The Islamophobic Harry's Place are upset today. They just don't know how to silence me and my book, even Ali Abunimah didn't help much. With 10 new editions of The Wandering Who coming out, they have a good reason to be concerened.
I guess that my followers will enjoy reviewing the following Zionist Tantrum. I also hope that sooner or later, Harry's Place find the courage to debate me publicly - I guess that first they will have to learn to tell the truth. More precisely, I am still waiting for Harry Place and their AZZ friends to come up with a single quote of me referring critically to Jews as a 'race', 'people' or 'ethnicity'.
The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics, Jewish political interest, and the role of the Harry's Places around.
Gilad Atzmon claims that Fagin and Shylock accurately represent Jewish identity, the credit crunch was caused by the Jews, the Holocaust is a religion, and Hitler may be proved right about the Jews.
He criticises “Jewish politics”, claiming that a “Zio-Punch” causing the credit crunch, and that the Jewish lobby in Germany provoked the Nazis into fighting back, by boycotting Nazis.
At a recent jazz show, he “joked” that throwing the Jews into the sea, would be unfair on the sea.
At his jazz show in Madrid, he promoted his book The Wandering Who, in which he makes many of these racist claims:
“I was a supremacist, tribalist Jew, I was living like a colonialist, I was eating their food, I was eating hummus I was eating falafel, and I managed to dismiss their sound. The people who made this hummus and falafel. And through the saxophone – it took me 30 years – I understood how wrong I was. And if you believe me, you better buy the book.”
Atzmon here combines his jazz with his antisemitism. The mainstream centre-left newspaper El Pais are happy to assist Atzmon in this, publishing two articles about him. One article states:
Given the complexitity of the artist and writer of Israeli origin, who considers himself to be an ex-Jew, you can find an idea connected with the concerts of Ian Dury’s Blockheads; an idea which Atzmon intends to share this weekend in the UK, where he usually lives.
The presentation of [Atzmon's] new book in Valencia, published in Spain as The Wandering Identity, was accompanied in Great Britain by such a great controversy, that it seemed as if it would spoil the publication of the book. The launch will take place in the Cosecha Roja bookshop on Seville Street, as an appetizer for the second concert of the Festival of Contemporary Jazz, hosted by the Jimmy Glass Club. A similar such challenge is expected to emerge, given that it’s now the second edition [of the book].
By Gilad Atzmon
Elie Wiesel , the world's most famous Holocaust survivor, the man who turned the Holocaust into a business career gave this week an interview to Haaretz.
This kosher ‘humanist’ whose interest in pain is confined to ‘one people only’ stated that he hopes that “the Mossad, which caught a man like Eichmann, will be able to catch Ahmadinejad and get him tried in an international court.”
This Zionist Elder must have forgotten that Eichmann wasn’t tried in an international court, he was actually sentenced to death by an Israeli court. And while Ahmadinejad travels freely around the world, it is Israeli mass murderers and war criminals who have to think twice before embarking on an international flight.
In the entire interview, neither Haaretz nor Wiesel referred to the Palestinian holocaust. Seemingly, both the Jewish media outlet and the Shoa merchant are concerned only with the suffering of one people.
Elie Wiesel, may be one of the strongest examples of the banality of Zionist mind. He is concerned only with the primacy of Jewish suffering and has totally failed to transform the Holocaust into a universal message.
Wiesel is critical of Germany, German people and their culture. “We must not forget what civilized people once did. People raised on Kant, Fichte and Hegel. People who listened to Beethoven and read Schiller in the morning, and in the afternoon killed children and parents."
October 28, 2012 Tel Aviv, Israel protest demanding the expulsion of all non-Jewish African asylum-seekers
By Gilad Atzmon
Seemingly, the list of Zionist swindlers never stops expanding. The shameless Labour MP Denis MacShane who made a political career chasing and harassing the critics of Jewish Power and Israel has resigned from Parliament yesterday after being found guilty by the Parliamentary standards committee. The Zionist stooge who was also the chair of the all-party Parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism was falsifying his expenses -the Parliamentary committee found he had submitted no less than 19 false invoices which were "plainly intended to deceive" Parliament's expenses authority.
MacShane was amongst the leading voices within the rabid Zionist Labour Friend of Israel lobby group. I can only hope, that the corrupted Labour MP has enough integrity in his system to admit that opposition to Israel and Jewish Power is far for being racist. It is actually driven by an ethical attempt to clean our public life of people of his ilk. We want our politicians and political life to be liberated of Zionist power. We want our parties to be free of their MacShanes.
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It is not normal for a writer who is here to discuss his book to end the night playing saxophone in a jazz club. But Gilad Atzmon is well, musician, philosophy professor on leave, shaker of consciences and ex-judío ex-israelí came to Madrid yesterday to present his new book, The Wandering Who and incidentally, to account for his condition with years of solvency jazzman: I am what I am thanks to jazz. His first performance of the two that has been scheduled last night at the Jazz Bogey: At 17 I bought a disc of Charlie Parker. When I saw his picture I could not believe. He firmly believed that all good is from the Jews.
I have to be honest and say that I was not expecting much from this book. However, I was wrong. The overwhelming and mind-blowing semi-autobiographical story that underpins the publication is fascinating, and the truth contained in the chapters speaks volumes. From cover to cover, it is only around 200 pages, it's well written, informative and well edited. Mon. 10/29/12, 3-5 pm Central, American Freedom Radio
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We explored issues to do with Mondweiss, Ali Abunimah, Jewish tribalism, Palestinian Diaspora Politics, Holocaust, 911 and more...
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First hour: Gilad Atzmon, the acclaimed Israeli-born British saxophonist, is one of the world's notable jazz musicians. His new book The Wandering Who? has provoked a mega-storm of praise and outrage, and become an underground best-seller. BG (before Gilad), anyone who suggested that the genocidal excesses of Zionism - and I would include 9/11 in that category - were inexorably linked to certain aspects of Jewish culture, was automatically assumed to be a benighted anti-Semite. Then Gilad Atzmon thoughtfully and passionately opened the door to reasoned discussion of this issue...and the rest is history.
The recent flap over Free Gaza activist Greta Berlin's alleged "anti-Semitic tweet" is just the latest outburst of anti-Gilad hysteria. See my article Mind-Controllers Chant "Anti-Semite" to Prevent ThoughtCrime.
By Gilad Atzmon
Peter Jenkins, Britain’s former representative on the International Atomic Energy Agency, has told the debating union at Warwick University that a ‘just war’ is not a Jewish notion. Jenkins was obviously telling the truth but the Zionist Jewish Chronicle is not happy.
The retired Foreign Office diplomat, speaking in a debate on nuclear proliferation in Iran, said: “Israelis don’t practise an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, they practise ten eyes for an eye and ten teeth for a tooth.” He also added that “the idea that a just war requires the use of force to be proportionate seems to be a Christian notion and not a Jewish notion.”
The JC reported this week that the remark prompted the Zionist Federation opposition speaker Jonathan Sacerdoti to call out “shame”.
Sacerdoti spoke to the audience in a capacity of "a son of a Holocaust survivor", he said “I suggest that the speech that we heard first, laced with its subtle attempts at antisemitism, masked behind polite diplomatic chatter is exactly the problem in this debate… this is not a Jewish issue, this is not an Israel issue, this is a worldwide issue.” I actually agree with Sacerdoti -Zionist madness is the biggest threat to world peace. it is not just a Jewish issue, it is not an Israel issue, it is a worldwide issue, it is a universal concern.
I am launching The Wandering Who in Spanish this week, a lot of activity, concerts and talks.
Here are a few articles.
http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2012/10/22/valencia/1350924679_236031.html
Gilad Atzmon.
Menos bromas con el estereotipo del judío errante. El saxofonista o, mejor, multiinstrumentista Gilad Atzmon pone en cuestión la expresión desde el mismo título de su último libro: The wandering who? para aclarar de qué va su tercer ensayo en el subtítulo: A study of jewish indetity politics. O La identidad judía a examen, en la edición española que el propio autor presentará el próximo día 30, en Valencia, y los días 31 y 1 de noviembre en Madrid, junto a dos actuaciones que tendrán lugar en el Jimmy Glass y en el Bogui Jazz, respectivamente. De la complejidad del artista y escritor de origen israelí, que a sí mismo se considera un exjudío, se puede extraer una idea al enlazar todo eso con los conciertos de los Blockheads de Ian Dury que tenía previsto compartir este fin de semana en el Reino Unido, donde reside habitualmente.
La presentación del nuevo libro en Valencia, editado en España como La identidad errante y precedido en Gran Bretaña de una polémica tal que, al parecer, estuvo a punto de dar al traste con su publicación, tendrá lugar en la librería Cosecha Roja de la calle Sevilla, como aperitivo del segundo concierto del Festival de Jazz Contemporáneo que programa el Jimmy Glass Club del barrio del Carmen, en lo que supone un repetido desafío a la crisis ya que es la segunda edición. El festival arrancará seis días antes, es decir el miércoles próximo, con la actuación del guitarrista Jonathan Kreisberg, estrella de la escena neoyorquina que abarca con naturalidad un amplio abanico que va desde las influencias iniciales de Robert Fripp a la deriva tradicionalista de un álbum como Night songs.
Se trata de un cartel en el que los acompañantes son en algunos casos, tan relevantes como los cabezas de lista. Es el caso del saxo alto Wil Vinson, que participó en el álbum más significativo de Kreisberg , The South of Everywhere y sigue a su lado ahora; del batería Francisco Mela, que llega a este festival en el trío encabezado por la saxofonista Melissa Aldana, pero ha formado parte del grupo de Joe Lovano y ha tocado con estrellas como McCoy Tyner y Kenny Barron; o el saxofonista Stacy Dillard, que acude en el cuarteto del guitarrista Greg Diamond, la propuesta más latina del certamen.
Por no hablar de las formaciones en que los músicos se hablan de tú a tú, como es el caso del cuarteto reunido para el 19 de noviembre, en el que Perico Sambeat, Albert Sanz y Javier Colina se olvidan de sus propios proyectos para unirse al que fuera batería de Miles Davis, Al foster, y ofrecer una especial noche (Valencia Moon, ha sido bautizada) dedicada a darle una vuelta de tuerca a algunos estándares del hard bop .La representación española juega al máximo nivel, completada por el saxofonista y flautista Jorge Pardo, que presentará formalmente en Valencia el disco Huellas, última y brillante destilación de su combinado de flamenco y jazz.
El guitarrista Josemi Carmona, miembro de Ketama e hijo de Pepe el Habichuela, forma parte del sexteto que acompaña a Jorge Pardo para la presentación de este doble CD y el que como novedad se incorpora el trompetista valenciano Voro García.
Mención aparte merece el saxofonista bostoniano Jerry Bergonzi, que vuelve al Jimmy para poner alto el listón del festival, apoyado en su habitual rítmica, integrada por músicos que son figuras por derecho propio, a sabe: Dave Santoro, Andrea Michelutti y Carl Winter. Completan el programa dos conciertos off festival, es decir, fuera de las tarifas del certamen, que son el protagonizado por la cantante Ganavya Doraiswami, al frente de un trío de jazz indio, y el del trío liderdo por el pianista valenciano Alberto Palau. Tanto Jeremy Pelt, como Gilad Atzmon y Greg Diamond actuan por primera vez en Valencia.
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El escritor y saxofonista, que se identifica a sí mismo como exjudío, estará en España la próxima semana para presentar la traducción al español de su último libro, The Wandering Who?: aprovecha la ocasión para ofrecer tres noches de conciertos entre Valencia y Madrid.
El tercer trabajo de Gilad Atzmon como escritor, el primero publicado en España, está editado por Ediciones de Oriente y del Mediterráneo (Madrid) bajo el título La identidad errante (La identidad judía a examen), un ensayo que Gilad comienza con la frase del político liberal Israel Shahak, nacido en Polonia y sobreviviente del Holocausto: “Los nazis me hicieron tener miedo de ser judío y los israelíes me hacen tener vergüenza de ser judío”.
Gilad se expresa casi en igualdad a través de la música y la palabra: una y otra están cargadas de experiencias vividas en primera persona. Su defensa de la causa Palestina no es la de un activista de salón sino la de alguien que conoce a la perfección la realidad de uno y otro lado del muro. Por tanto su música no puede dejar de estar impregnada de ello.
It is far from being a big surprise that Jimmy Savile, a 'predatory sex offender', found many friends amongst Zionists and Israeli leaders. Just a year ago, the UK Jewish Chronicle saw him as a dear friend of the Jewish people and their State.
Interestingly enough, JC's Jessica Elgot who wrote the following piece prefers Zionist paedophile Savile over truth tellers such as prof' John Mersheimer or myself*.
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/57682/jimmy-savile-came-my-batmitzvah
With the Bridge in Britain friends in Tel Aviv in 1975; John Levy is far right
He claimed to have "invented the disco", but Sir Jimmy Savile, the DJ and presenter who died last weekend, also claimed to have done his bit towards peace in the Middle East.
Sir Jimmy always said he had berated the Israeli Cabinet in 1975 for being too soft after the Six Day War.
The bling-loving Leeds-born presenter of Jim'll Fix It and Top of the Pops, who once described himself as "the most Jewish Catholic you will ever meet," was a strong supporter of Israel and through fun runs, marathons and personal appearances, raised funds for many charities including WIZO, Ravenswood, and the British Friends of the Laniado Hospital in Netanya.
His ten-day visit to Israel in 1975, when he met President Ephraim Katzir and Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek, was organised by John Levy of the Friends of Israel Educational Trust.
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The trip was filmed for the BBC's Jim'll Fix It after nine-year-old Gary Merrie from Liverpool asked "to see the land where Jesus was born."
Sir Jimmy recalled his advice to the Israelis: "I arrived at this reception. The president came to me and asked how I was enjoying my visit.I said I was very disappointed: the Israelis had won the Six Day War but they had given back all the land, including the only oil well in the region, and were now paying the Egyptians more for oil than if they had bought it from Saudi Arabia.
"I said: 'You have forgotten to be Jewish'. He said: 'Would you like to tell my cabinet that?' Next morning, I went to the Knesset; they interrupted a cabinet meeting and I told them the same as I had told him."
Mr Levy recalled: "He was a gorgeous, impish, creative character. Of course, he was an egomaniac, but he was incredibly generous. He wanted to film us walking from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, so there are these scenes trudging the Judean Hills. He had many close Jewish friends, he was a real philosemite. When we returned, I asked him to be a 'Friend' of the Trust and he insisted that I listed him as 'Special Friend'."
Telling the truth about the Jewish state can be very dangerous for your career. The following was published today by the Irish Independent:
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/i-am-not-antisemitic-claims-vincent-browne-3276074.html
I am not anti-Semitic, claims Vincent BrowneTV3 broadcaster Vincent Browne insists he is not anti-Semitic after branding Israel a "cancer" in foreign affairs.
But Israel's deputy ambassador to Ireland said she never believed the day would come when an Irish TV presenter would make "racist, anti-Semitic remarks".
Mr Browne, pictured, had been complaining on his show about the lack of discussion of Israel during the last US presidential debate between Republican nominee Mitt Romney and US President Barack Obama.
"Israel is the cancer in foreign affairs. It polarises the Islamic community of the world against the rest of the world," he said.
"Unless you deal with the problem of Israel and the Palestinians in that part of the world, there's going to be conflict and disharmony. It's a massive injustice -- they stole the land from the Arabs."
Mr Browne admitted that his choice of language could have been better but insisted that the criticism was justified.
"What I resent is the suggestion that because you're critical of Israel, you're automatically anti-Semitic. I don't think that's acceptable," he said.
Mr Browne refused to apologise for his remarks, saying that Israel was founded in 1948 by taking land from the Arabs.
He said it was "blackmail" to try to brand everyone who was critical of Israel as anti-Semitic. "I don't think I differ too much from Irish or European foreign policy," he said.
We spoke about the myth of Jewish histroy, Israeli archeology and the attempt to manufacture a past, identity vs. Identification, Yoav Shamir, ADL, the holocaust and ethics.
The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics, Jewish political interest and Jewish hegemony within the Palestinian Solidarity Movement...
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Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: As I explained in my latest book The Wandering Who, Jewish identity politics is driven by different tribal narratives. In many cases it is intolerant and even openly hostile towards open exchange and universal ideologies. This applies the Zionist and ‘anti’ Zionist alike.
The Jewish internet outlet Mondoweiss initially presented itself as a progressive pro-Palestine journal but it didn’t take long before it admitted to be a fig leaf dedicated to Judeo-centric gate-keeping. This week Mondoweiss changed its comment policy. No longer will it allow any criticism of Jewish politics, culture and identity politics.
But here’s the good news: Years ago, when some of us decided to write about the Jewish state in the context of Jewish culture, the AZZ (anti-Zionist Zionists) dismissed us as an ‘irrelevant marginal voice’. This week however, Mondoweiss admitted that we are actually “a lot of people” and “a significant part of the community.” A community Mondoweiss attempts to silence.
In the following piece Aletho News added the names of those who oppose freedom of speech and open discourse. These people have publicly disavowed me because of my recognizing the clear connection between Jewish identity politics and Zionist ideology. I’ll admit that I am actually happy to be at the centre of this battle for truth and liberation.
In the list you will find many Jewish activists. Yet, one may wonder why Palestinians such as Ali Abunimah and Omar Barghouti have so compromised their credibility by joining such a list and it would be interesting to find out what they got in return. But it would be even more interesting to find out what principle they were willing to sacrifice. Apparently, giving up on the Palestinian Right of Return was something they were quite happy to give away.
http://alethonews.wordpress.com
“. . . a significant part of the community wants to talk about Israeli policy in the context of Jewish history and Jewish identity, and do so in a highly critical manner. Clearly a lot of people, including many in our community, want to have these conversations and regard them as necessary to resolving the Middle East conflict. We don’t. We are tired of serving as a platform for this discussion, including in the comment section, and don’t see the conversation as a productive one. From here on out, the Mondoweiss comment section will no longer serve as a forum to pillory Jewish culture and religion as the driving factors in Israeli and US policy.
We are making this change because this discussion makes for a toxic, often racist, discourse, and scares off others who would otherwise be drawn to the issues this site concerns itself with.”
Xymphora responds:
I look forward to the ‘Roots of Slavery in the Old South’ forum, which consists entirely of a discussion of the sufferings of the slaveholders, and how their actions derived entirely from the racism experienced by their Scots-Irish forefathers.
Of course, the deeper issue is that Zionism is based, not in Jewish suffering or the mythology of a universal irrational hatred of Jews, but in Jewish violent group supremacism. This is easy to see in that Zionism waxes in times of Jewish group dominance (like now), and wanes in the relatively rare times of Jewish group oppression. The lite Zionists are always more skittish about hiding Jewish supremacism than the hard-core Zionists.
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Aletho News adds the following list containing the names of those who have publicly disavowed Gilad Atzmon due to his recognizing a connection between Jewish cultural identity and Zionist ideology:
As’ad AbuKhalil, The Angry Arab News Service, Turlock, CA
Suha Afyouni, solidarity activist, Beirut, LEBANON
Max Ajl, essayist, rabble-rouser, proprietor of Jewbonics blog site, Ithaca, NY
Haifaa Al-Moammar, activist, stay-at-home mom, and marathon walker, Los Angeles, CA
Electa Arenal, professor emerita, CUNY Graduate Center/Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Women’s Studies, New York, NY
Gabriel Ash, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Dan Berger, Wild Poppies Collective, Philadelphia, PA
Chip Berlet, Boston, MA
Nazila Bettache, activist, Montréal, CANADA
Sam Bick, Tadamon!, Immigrant Workers Center, Montréal, Québec
Max Blumenthal, author; writing fellow, The Nation, New York, NY
Lenni Brenner, author, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators, New York, NY
Café Intifada
By Gilad Atzmon
Just as we were learning about ‘anti’ Zionist Mondoweiss’ decision to revise its comment policy to exclude discussion of the true nature of the Jewish State, the openly pro Zionist Haaretz paper published a news item about the Israeli poet, singer songwriter Zeev Tene.
Tene’s new song is called ‘Jew-Ish’ and as you may guess, is actually very critical of the Jew, Jewishness, The Jewish State and Jewish Identity in general. On the pages of Haaretz, an Israeli paper, Tene tells the truth that Mondoweiss and other AZZ (Anti Zionists Zionists) are determined to suppress.
Is it a coincidence that our leading ‘pro’-Palestinian Jews are so determined to stifle any critical discourse to do with the Jewish State and Jewish identity? Not at all. Philip Weiss, the founder of the ‘progressive’ Jewish website admitted to me in an interview that Jewish-self interests are at the centre of his activism. “I believe all people act out of self-interest. And Jews who define themselves at some level as Jews -- like myself for instance -- are concerned with a Jewish self-interest. Which in my case is: an end to Zionism,” said Weiss.
Unlike Philip Weiss, Zeev Tene, is a proud self-hater. He calls a spade a spade, he says what he means and he means what he says.
Watch and read Zeev Tene new poem.
Jew ish! by Zeev Tene
How do you live with it
How do you remain indifferent
You lock an entire nation behind a fence
The biographical film, Gilad and All That Jazz, poses the fundamental question of supremacy in this Dark Age where many intellectuals, artists, academics and politicians still don't "get it". Over five hundred years of imperialism, colonialism, Zionism, white supremacy, and Euro-American exceptionalism, have re-shaped human's being and consciousness through assigned categories of race, religion, ethnicity, class, and creed despite scientific evidence that there are no biologically determined characteristics of any of these. However, the musician-philosopher, Gilad Atzmon poses that there is a pervasive social construction, a set of positions in a global structure, for which Zionism and the identity of being an Israeli and a Jew are assigned categories that influence the socialization one receives, the life world in which one moves, the experiences one has, and the view one develops.
The film shows through Gilad's life and music how Zionist ethnocentrism so structures the Israeli world as to have negative ramifications for every sphere of Palestinian and ultimately, Arab and Muslim life---juridical standing, moral status, personal racial identity, epistemic reliability, existential plight, political inclusion, social metaphysics, sexual relations, and aesthetic worth. The dominant moral code within the Jewish State is based on a racialized religious anthropology similar to, if not the same as, the Herrenvolk ethic. Moreover, the film tells us how Gilad is compelled to bring to consciousness the assumptions and mechanisms of this ethic, and ultimately to subvert it so that the Jewish State and the world can see it for what it is--an oppressive Herrenvolk state.
In the film, Gilad asks us to ask ourselves, "Have you ever considered yourself chosen"? I cannot imagine. As a child raised in a strict misogynist and abusive Calvinist environment accompanied by the leitmotif that I was born in sin, the question is unthinkable. I cannot wrap it around my brain--neither my mother nor any of my ancestors will allow it. However, when I get a glimpse of the concept of "chosen-ness" it translates as decidedly sinful. By sin I do not mean an individual, private, or merely interior reality. Sin here is regarded as a social, historical fact, the absence of the humane and love in relationships among all people. Zionism is sinful specifically because it has embedded systems of oppression and exploitation encompassing the Palestinian people while excluding everyone except the Jews.
Gilad and all that Jazz [TRAILER] from David Alamouti on Vimeo.
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Although a lot of research has been devoted by distinguished institutions (e.g., ADL) to defining anti-semitism and providing detailed classifications of its forms of manifestation, the field has grown so much that it is hard now to encompass it in one discipline.
Abe Foxman, the head of ADL, has come up with a short test, now known as Foxman’s Five, on which even one check mark ensures certification as an anti-semite:
The Anti-Anti-semitic Association (AAA), which accredits anti-semites, has lowered the bar so much that the anti-semite certfication is now available to anyone simply on the recommendation of two AAA experts.
The Holocaust criterion has been enlarged too: it used to include only “denial” but experience has shown that such a classification left a lot of desirable candidates without accreditation so, with the advent of Sophia Rosenthal and her staff of six at the State Department’s aptly named Bureau of Democracy, an addition was made:
“holocaust relativism,” i.e., quibbling with any detail in Holocaustology. This measure helped to democratize anti-semitism to some extent, opening the gates wider.
Nevertheless, interestingly, at the same time that the membership has grown by leaps and bounds into a vast, diverse, and vibrant community, an elite group of anti-semites has formed at the top.
The criteria by which special status is accorded to those few are not always clear. Needlessly to say, few anti-semitic plebeians would invidiously begrudge the VIP status to people like these (examples in alph order):
all of whom, armed with impressive bibliographies and CVs, ice Foxman’s test, and some of them score off the charts.
Deeply within the spirit of The Book of Esther that teaches female Jews how to bridge the gap between sex and political power, Sarah Silverman offers her intimate services to Zionist billioner Sheldon Adelson.
Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: It doesn't take a genius to find out that in many cases, the so-called 'progressive' AntiFa organisations, are actually Zionist settings fully dedicated to Jewish tribal politics and interests. Here in Britain we found out that the 'anti' racist Hope not Hate is a hardcore Zionist outlet. In Germany the infamous Anti-Deutsche is working closely with the Israeli Embassy. In the USA the situation is obviously similar. In the following article Tim Calvert, a Palestinian solidarity activist from Portland, Oregon reveals what the struggle for justice means for real. For the last three years, Tim has been subject to an ongoing Hasbara's text book smear campaigns. He needs our support.
Tim Calvert, October 2012
Protest against AIPAC Gathering, Portland, Oregon USA
For over three years, a small, anonymous group called “rose city antifa” has been trying to oust me from the Citybikes co-op in Portland, Oregon, of which I am a founder member, supposedly because of 'antisemitic organizing'. Tactics have included graffiti, online advocacy of violence, and the use of 'politically correct' language to make it sound as if people 'feel oppressed' by my alleged political opinions, and those of people I have associated with, as a result of my participation in the local “9/11 Truth” movement. The campaign has now reached the point where the 'anti' fascists are trying to persuade customers to boycott Citybikes until they fire me.
Below:
My personal declaration
I believe that the attacks against me by rose city antifa are not, in fact, related to my participation in the 9-11 group and the occasional speakers I have been associated with, but instead, due to my pro-Palestinian activism, and criticism of Israel. The vehemence and underhandedness with which this anonymous group attacks me looks very similar to the standard Hasbara (Israeli propagandist) smear of anyone critical of Israel. For example, as well as denouncing “right-wing conspiracy theorists” like Fritz Springmeier, the 'anti' fascists equally smear liberal pro-Palestinian writer Alison Weir as an 'antisemitic activist'. These smears exceed those of the influential Zionist organization the Anti-Defamation League, and show that defending us from fascism is not the real purpose of rose city antifa.