Gilad Atzmon & The OHE @ London's Hideaway this Saturday

 http://www.hideawaylive.co.uk/gilad-atzmon-saturday-20th-july-2013

Saturday 20th July, Doors 7pm, Show 9pm

Gilad Atzmon - clarinet sax
Yaron Stavi - bass
Eddie Hick - drums
Frank Harrison - piano

 

Gilad Atzmon - musician, writer, and more

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A formidable improvisational array...a jazz giant steadily drawing himself up to his full height...’ The Guardian.

 ‘The best musician living in the world today’ Robert Wyatt


"The Band has created perhaps their most enduring ensemble work yet" Andy Robson Jazzwise ****


"Whether he’s blowing up a storm of notes or gently caressing a ballad, there’s a luminous vitality at the heart of Atzmon’s playing that’s irresistible to the ear" Record Collector ****


 "vibrant and beautiful" Bruce Lindsay All About Jazz

A hard-hitting but wide-ranging set from an admirably tight and robust band led by one of the most charismatic and focused reedsmen on the planet. Chris Parker LondonJazz


'Atzmon has produced his most mature, and in many ways his most diverse, work to date' Ian Mann Jazzmann *****

 'Tensions, surprises, shocks and ambiguities' John Fordham, The Guardian

Atzmon and the excellent pianist Frank Harrison do to the old parsley-sage tune what John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner did to My Favourite Things Irish Time ****


While it is raining (Leonard) Bernstein is waving to a taxi. Mignus who sits on the back seat opens the door for him, he invites Bernstein to come in – This is the musical image of this group.  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Conjuring an atmosphere of evocative cinematic suggestion BBC Music Review

Peon to a recent past, when urban spaces belonged to the people who lived in them, and cities had distinct emotional characters Financial Times ****

Freedom Stitchers - need your support

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/freedom-stitchers

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“Give a woman a fish, and you feed her family for a day.

Teach a woman to run her own business, and she feeds her family for a lifetime.”

Announcing the launch of the “Freedom Stitchers” project to create self-sufficiency for marginalized and jobless women in Gaza.

The “Freedom Stitchers” project begins in Gaza, in autumn 2013

to share: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/freedom-stitchers

ABOUT

“Freedom Stitchers” will be a sustainable project run by women in Gaza. This micro-business is based on the idea that Palestinian women possess their own unique artistic and design skills, but they need a process to sell their finished products to the world, (with a little help from their friends at “Freedom Stitchers.”) They have the right to set up businesses, but are prevented in selling their artistry by the illegal blockade on their borders. 

We therefore intend to help set up this business for women in Gaza to market not only their exquisite embroidery, but to also enhance their artistic skills by teaching them how to knit, crochet, do silk ribbon embroidery, beadwork, felting, and other types of hand stitching for textile art which can then be sold.

The three of us organizers, Sinead MacLochlainn, Mary Hughes Thompson and Greta Berlin are long-time activists for justice in Palestine. You can read more about us on our bio page and on the website at www.freedomstitchers.org 

HOW YOU CAN HELP US

“Freedom Stitchers” will work to set up a trade route to import supplies and then export the finished products made by these women. This idea has worked in other countries, but because Gaza is occupied and blockaded, no one has ever tried to import yarn, needles and material and export the finished goods. “Freedom Stitchers” aims to change this by creating a Trade-not-Aid project. Donating to this project provides the raw materials for the art work, something that is very difficult for the women of Gaza to receive. Your donation will help us set up a micro-business and will enable the project to be video-taped and perhaps even live streamed. 

Your donations will help to enable these women to ‘Stitch for Freedom." Payments can be accepted by clicking on the CONTRIBUTE button that Indiegogo has set up for us. For more info or if you want to send us a check instead, contact us at donate@freedomstitchers.org or freedomstitchers@gmail.com 

or visit us at www.freedomstitchers.org 

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The Death Merchants of Tel Aviv

By Gilad Atzmon

Haaretz reported today that there are more than 6,800 arms exporters working in Israel.

As of the end of 2012, there were “6,684 individuals dealing with security exports in 1,006 companies and 312 independent businesses. The Israeli Defence Export Controls Agency issued 1,900 marketing permits and 8,716 export permits.”

Apparently some 6,684 Israelis are making a living selling death around the world.  They are serving an industry that produces more than 150,000 jobs. However, the most crucial question here is how did the Jewish State become a death factory?  Early Zionism  promised, indeed, to bring to the world a ‘new Jew’ – a productive, proletarian authentic human being driven by ethics and humanism. But, it didn’t take long for the Jewish State to reveal its real supremacist inclinations and plunderous pragmatism.

By now, Israel isn’t just a regional threat. It actually operates as a military industrial lab. On a daily basis it celebrates its destructive powers on the expense of Israel’s neighbours and the Palestinians, just in order to find new markets for its growing class of death merchants.

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And Now They Want The Temple Rebuilt

By Gilad Atzmon

Haaretz reported today that one third of Israeli Jews want the Temple rebuilt in Jerusalem.

Apparently dozens of movements in Israel are attempting to change the status quo at  Haram Ash-Sharif, widely considered the third holiest site in Islam.  They aim towards a resurrection of the Jewish Temple at the site.   Some are reconstructing ceremonial objects used in the Temple in the past, while others are making practical preparations for its rebuilding, including a renewal of animal sacrifice. Others deal in political lobbying and with encouraging Jews to visit the Mount.

"Attempts to distance the People of Israel from its holiest site have failed," said Yehuda Glick, spokesman for the forum of Temple Mount organizations that commissioned the survey.

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12% of Israelis admit paying bribes

 

Israeli press reported today that 12% of Israelis paid a bribe in the past year, and political parties and religious organizations are perceived as Israel's most corrupt public institutions, according to the Global Corruption Barometer 2013 published today by Transparency International.

12% of the respondents said that they paid a bribe in the past year. Almost one in ten Israelis (9%) who came in contact with government real estate services said that they paid a bribe.

In ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’, 89% of the population believe that personal connections or the use of power are essential for promoting their interests vis-à-vis the authorities. This is the highest percentage of all the countries covered by the Global Corruption Barometer; the global average is 63%.

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Summer 2013 (gigs, workshops, festivals)

(9th-14th August  GMF International Jazz School, Saarwellingen, Germany)

 

July

9 - With Christian Brewer, The Lower Ground, West Hampstead, London

10-11-  Sarah Gillespie's Album Launch, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean St, Soho London

13 -  Swanage Jazz Festival 3 concerts:  Gilad Atzmon & the OHE, Gilad Atzmon & The OHE, Power Cats and with Sarah Gillespie quartet

15 - With Nick Hill at the Bedford Arms, Bedford

18 - With Asaf Airkis and Tim Thornton London, Jazz At the Tavern, The Great Northern Railway Tavern. 67 High Street, Hornsey, London N8 7QB

20 - Gilad Atzmon and the OHE, @ Hideaway, Streatham,  London. Last Orient House Concert in London ahead of the London Jazz Festival (QEH 21 of November)

24 - Norman Watt-Roy Album Launch at Rough Trade, London

25 - Gilad Atzmon Frank Harrison Duo Cotswold Cricket Museum,  Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire

26 With the Blockheads, Fringe Festival, Llangollen 

28 With the Blockheads, Rewind Festival at Scone Palace, Perth, Scotland

August

3.  With Mauro Grossi’s Trio  Chiavari, Italy

4. With the Blockheads, Wickham Festival, Hampshire

5. Jazz Legend Gilad Atzmon Plays John Coltrane, Pizza Express Jazz Club, London

9 Gilad Atzmon & The OHE, Brecon Jazz Festival

9-14 GMF International Jazz School, Saarwellingen, Germany

http://youtu.be/AdcYdhN9W60

17 With The Blockhead,  Crystal Palace Garden Party, London

18 Gilad Atzmon & The OHE Ipswich Jazz Club

 

September

1 With The Power Cats, wall2wall Jazz Festival, Swan Hotel, Abergavenny

Oy Vey - Brazilian Jews Take to The Streets To Push for Change ..

“I believe the highest call of my Jewish identity is to change the world. I hold tikkun olam [repair of the world] as the most coherent expression of Jewish values,” said Bruno Cintra, a blogger well known in the Jewish community for his writing on Brazilian culture and politics.
Read more:http://forward.com/articles/179925/brazilian-jews-take-to-streets-to-join-massive-pus/?p=all#ixzz2YLtUrIXS

I think that time is ripe to launch a fund for Tikun Olam's victims - those who were destroyed in the name of Jewish progressive ideology.  

As I have mentioned many times in the past, before those   Tikkiun Olam enthusiasts 'repair the world' they may want to consider fixing their Jewish State and dismantling its forceful Lobby.

Here is a short Israeli video about IDF military tactics being exported to Brazil

The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics in general  and Jewish Left's spin in particular   Amazon.com  or Amazon.co.uk

 

 

 

Tony Blair hired ex Israeli army intelligence officer

The Telegraph reported today that “Tony Blair has hired a former Israeli army intelligence officer to work in his private office, despite his role as Middle East peace envoy.”

Lianne Pollak, who has led intelligence teams in the Israel Defence Forces, was recruited as a private consultant between October 2012 and April this year.

The 30-year-old Israel was previously a policy adviser to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, working with security agencies and senior officials.

British Former prime minister is the envoy to the Middle East for the Quartet – the group that represents the US, Russia, the United Nations and Europe.

His role includes encouraging development in Gaza and the West Bank and helping to forge a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, having been appointed when he left Downing Street in June 2007.

The Arabs And Their Spring

By Gilad Atzmon


It is not a secret that summer skipped Europe this year and some meteorologists even predict a sun eclipse for the next seven to ten years. When asked to explain this dire prediction a few experts ended up blaming the Arabs, ‘it is all because of the Arabs, they took all the spring.’

Joking aside, looking at the Arabs and their "Spring" reveals a chilling sight. It is basically an ongoing bloodbath.

A vast popular uprising in the name of "liberation," "human rights," "democracy" and other big words has matured in a very short time  into regional chaos, civil wars, carnage, loss of life on a huge magnitude scale and scores of interventionist apparatuses that guarantee more havoc to come.

What happened? Why did the "Arab Spring" turn into a regional winter? Why didn't the Egyptian democracy last more than a year?

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We Razed Arab Villages, So What? Says 100-Year-Old IDF General

Introduction by GA: Earlier this month,  Israeli media outlet Arutz 7 interviewed 100-Year-Old Brig. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Pundak who was honest enough to admit that his “conscience is at ease" in regard to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine "because if we hadn't done so, then there would be no state by now. There would be a million more Arabs.” 

The IDF elder general also suggested that Israelis are as devoted now as they were in  1948  "He predicted that if a war breaks out again, Jews will be capable of the same kind of self-sacrifice as in 1948."

 

100-Year-Old General: We Razed Arab Villages, So What?

Brig. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Pundak: If we hadn't done it, there would be a million more Arabs and there would be no Israel.

 

By Gil Ronen

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Yitzhak Pundak

 

 

Brig. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Pundak is celebrating his hundredth birthday. Pundak was the commander of the 53rd Battalion of the Givati Brigade in the War of Independence and went on to supervise the establishment of the Armored Corps. He was also Ambassador in Tanzania and a founder of Arad.

In an interview on IDF Radio, Pundak confirmed that forces under his command razed Arab villages in 1948. “My conscience is at ease with that, because if we hadn't done so, then there would be no state by now. There would be a million more Arabs,” he said.

Asked why he still finds it so important to lecture to soldiers, at his advanced age, he explained: "Just like in 1948, the country is in a state of danger – and if the Jews do not fight as we did in the War of Independence, the state is in danger.” He predicted that if a war breaks out again, Jews will be capable of the same kind of self-sacrifice as in 1948. 

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21st Century Wire TV – Episode 4 – ‘A Conversation with Gilad Atzmon’ (video)

http://potentnews.com/

21st Century Wire TV

21st Century Wire – Episode 4 – ‘A Conversation with Gilad Atzmon’ – Host Patrick Henningsen and special guest award-winning musician and author, Gilad Atzmon, discussing the power of the Israeli lobby in Europe and the US, and a deeper look into Jewish identity politics as detailed in Atzmon’s new book, ‘The Wandering Who?’.Don’t miss this engaging discussion…

This show aired in 2012 on SKY Channel 191 Paradigm Shift TV(PSTV) in the UK:
http://www.paradigmshift.tv

For info on upcoming DVD’s visit:
http://www.21stcenturywire.com/2012/1…

The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics  Amazon.com  or Amazon.co.uk

Netanyahu On ‘The Jew’, Herzl and Tikkun Olam

By Gilad Atzmon

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a fascinating speech yesterday at the memorial ceremony of Theodor Herzl in Jerusalem (27.6.2013). ‘The Jew’, stated Netanyahu, is the saver and the liberator of humanity. He and she are the true meaning of progress as conveyed by the notion of ‘Tikkun Olam’ (fixing the world).  ‘The Jew’, according to the Israeli PM, is the emblem of philosophical, ideological, spiritual, scientific and aesthetic innovation.  

In his attempt to describe late 19th Century Jewish life in Vienna, Netanyahu said “they (the Jews) rose and flourished in science, art, medicine, philosophy, music, journalism, business, economics - Jewish prosperity can not be described. Freud, Mahler, Schnitzler, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein who came from a Jewish home, Stefan Zweig…”

But then, like Herzl, Netanyahu accepts that in spite of all their greatness, European Jews were doomed - they were despised and were eventually subject to a horrendous fate. According to Netanyahu and his mentor Herzl, antisemitism is engraved in the Goy’s mind.  “People are willing to believe everything about the Jews,” he says.  

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Football and Palestine (must watch)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSgqErDOAwI

Published on Jun 4, 2013

A film by Gregg McDonald of Consequential Films

Producers, Hugh Tisdale and Deborah Rich of Philosophy Football

In the autumn of 2011 Philosophy met Honey Thalijeh, then captain of the Palestine Women's Football team.

Honey told us the story of football in her country and we made a promise. That for Euro 2013, the Under 21s tournament hosted by Israel, we would visit Palestine to make a film and help tell the world what football means for ordinary Palestinians living on the other side of the wall Israel built to encircle and occupy their land.

The film was made on the eve of Israel hosting Euro 2013. Filmed, cut and edited in the space of 48 hours this is politically-committed reportage at its rapid and rough best. It was premiered at the Palestine Olympic Association HQ in Ramallah. Please spread this film far and wide.

The Palestine Football Supporters Club T-shirt is available at www.philosophyfootball.com

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Smearing Alice Walker

Alice Walker’s New Book Makes Her the Zionists’ Target
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/26/smearing-alice-walker/
by JEFFREY BLANKFORT

In the comments section of a recent online article in the right wing New York Jewish publication, Algemeiner, not to be confused with the Frankfurter Allgemeine but conceivably with Der Sturmer, there was an argument over whether or not the “Mossad should deal with” Alice Walker as punishment for the critical comments directed towards Israel and American Jewish supporters of Israel in her latest book, “The Cushion in the Road” which, we can assume, none of those commenting had read.

All it took to set off the threat and a stream of racist venom against the 69 year African-American author was an inflammatory headline in Algemeiner’s June 19th edition:“ADL Blasts Anti-Israel Author Walker: ‘She is ‘unabashedly infected with Anti-Semitism’” followed by an article in the same vein.

As could be anticipated from the headline, the story featured a statement by Anti-Defamation League director, Abe Foxman:

“Alice Walker has sunk to new lows with essays that remove the gloss of her anti-Israel activism to reveal someone who is unabashedly infected with anti-Semitism.

“She has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level, revealing the depth of her hatred of Jews and Israel to a degree that we have not witnessed before.  Her descriptions of the conflict are so grossly inaccurate and biased that it seems Walker wants the uninformed reader to come away sharing her hate-filled conclusions that Israel is committing the greatest atrocity in the history of the world.”

According to an ADL press release, Walker’s book “devotes 80 pages to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, often making comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany, denigrating Judaism and Jews, and suggesting that Israel should cease to exist as a Jewish state.”

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Gilad's concerts & talks (June - July)

27 - Gilad Atzmon & The OHE @ Norwich Art Centre

28 - Jazz Baroque Fusion, Gilad Atzmon with Jennifer Bennett (violin and viola de gamba) & Yair Avidor  (lute & theorbo) @ Harwich Festival +Pre Concert talk by Gilad Atzmon

29th Gilad Atzmon & the OHE  St. Mary's church hall, Felpham, Bognor Regis

30 - Mauro Grossi 4tet featuring Gilad Atzmon, PratoEstate Festival, Prato Italy

July

4 - Gilad Atzmon & The OHE @ NC Jazz, The Castle,  North Hampton 

5 - Gilad Atzmon & The OHE @ Birmingham Jazz, "Old Joint Stock", 4 Temple Row W, Birmingham,  B2 5NY

6 - With The Blockheads,  Mostly Jazz Festival, Birmingham

7 - With Roger Odell 4tet, The Cherry Tree, Knowl Green, Belchamp St Paul, Suffolk

8 - With Nicolas Meier Group, July 8th, Fribourg Jazz Festival, Switzerlan

9 - With Christian Brewer, The Lower Ground, West Hampstead, London

10-11-  With Sarah Gillespie, Album Launch, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean St, Soho London

To Book 10/7 click here

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13 -  Swanage Jazz Festival 3 concerts:  Gilad Atzmon & the OHE, Gilad Atzmon & The OHE, Power Cats and with Sarah Gillespie quartet

15 - With Nick Hill at the Bedford Arms, Bedford

18 - With Asaf Airkis and Tim Thornton London, Jazz At the Tavern, The Great Northern Railway Tavern. 67 High Street, Hornsey, London N8 7QB

20 - Gilad Atzmon and the OHE, @ Hideaway, Streatham,  London. Last Orient House Concert in London ahead of the London Jazz Festival (QEH 21 of November)

24 - Norman Watt-Roy Album Launch at Rough Trade, London

25 - Gilad Atzmon Frank Harrison Duo Cotswold Cricket Museum,  Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire

26 With the Blockheads, Fringe Festival, Llangollen 

28 With the Blockheads, Rewind Festival at Scone Palace, Perth, Scotland