Gilad Atzmon & The OHE: Residency @ The Pizza Express Jazz Club, London
Three Nights - 6th – 9th/Mar
Show Time 9:00pm / Doors Open 7:30pm
Gilad Atzmon (clarinet, sax), Yaron Stavi (bass), chris higginbottom (drums), Frank Harrison (piano).
Maverick, award-winning saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble are back in the UK after an extensive world tour with their latest album ‘Songs Of The Metropolis’ (2013 best Album -Jazz Journal) and some new materials. For the last 13 years the quartet have been touring all over the world, stunning audiences with their firebrand performances packed with drama, luscious harmonies and wit.
Pizza Express -Jazz Club Soho
10 Dean Street
Soho
London
W1D 3RW
For booking:
0845 6027 017
Thu 6th Book online now.
Fri 7th Book online now
Sat 8th Book online now.
Watch video: http://youtu.be/hmWtlaug8TQ
Denver, Boulder, LA, Oakland, SF, Portland, San Antonio & Houston
16 Sun Denver, CO: 12:30pm “Community Forum for the Heart and Mind” – First Universalist Church of Denver (4101 E. Hampden Avenue, Denver, CO 80222 – NE corner of Hampden Ave. & Colorado Blvd.) http://firstuniversalist.org/ Join us for a discussion about the Israeli-Palestine peace process and creative pathways to resolve conflict in the Middle East. We will host Richard Forer and Gilad Atzmon who are prominent scholars and activists in the field. This will be an engaging exploration of their experiences and perspectives about Israel-Palestine, followed by discussion. The Forum will conclude at 2:30 p.m.
Denver, CO: 7:30PM- Music at Phoenician Kabob / 5709 E Colfax Ave Denver http://pkabob.com/
17 Mon Boulder, CO: 12 Noon to 2 pm Richard Forer and Gilad Atzmon at University of Colorado, Boulder UMC Memorial Center Room#425
Denver, CO: 7-9pm Gilad Atzmon at We Are Change Colorado http://wearechangecolorado.org/ We Are Change Colorado Community Center 8646 W. Colfax Avenue, Denver (West of Wadsworth)
18 Tue 
Los Angeles, CA: The Levantine Cultural Center at the Lyric Theatre presents “Mideast Masters of Jazz” stars sax maniacs Gilad Atzmon and Zane Musa, performing together LIVE in a return performance. 8:30pm – 10:30pm The Lyric Theatre 520 N. La Brea Ave Los Angeles CA 90036 / street
buy tickets at: http://www.levantinecenter.org/events/mideast-masters-jazz-gilad-atzmon-zane-musa The Levantine Cultural Center at the Lyric Theatre presents “Mideast Masters of Jazz” stars sax maniacs Gilad Atzmon and Zane Musa, performing together LIVE in a return performance. It’s all happening right here in Los Angeles, backed by some of the best be-bop musicians ever. The bonus is that London-based Gilad Atzmon and Zane Musa are off-the-charts brilliant musicians, so if you love jazz and are curious about how an ex Israeli and Palestinian get along on stage and off, reserve your tickets for “Mideast Masters of Jazz” at 323.413.2001. Also featuring Mahesh Balasooriya on piano, Tony Austin on drums and Carlitos Puerto on bass.
19 Wed TBD
20 Thu 
Oakland, CA: Writer/philosopher
Gilad Atzmon in conversation
with writer/journalist Jeffrey Blankfort
8pm- 6839 Saroni Dr., Oakland
Phone: (510)224-3518
$10-20 suggested donation
a benefit for the Palestine Children’s Welfare Fund
21 Fri 
Oakland, CA: Jazz virtuoso
Gilad Atzmon in concert with Peter Barshay on bass and Bryan Bowman on drums
7:00pm @Uptown Body & Fender
401 26th St. Oakland
Phone: (510)224-3518 19th St. BART$10-20 suggested donation
a benefit for the Palestine Children’s Welfare Fund The only 2014 Bay Area performance of acclaimed British jazz saxophonist and composer Gilad Atzmon. Discussion follows.
22 Sat Portland, OR: Moderated Round Table Discussion with local Palestinians and Portlanders 6-8:30pm at Lucky Lab Brewing Company 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Portland, OR 97214 (503) 236-3555
Portland, OR: 9-10pm Music Jam at Thorne Lounge 4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd Portland, OR 97215 (503) 234-2423
Gilad Atzmon on alto sax with Steve Cleveland on keys and Russell Gores on bass.
23 Sun TRANSIT DAY
24 Mon 
San Antonio, TX: 8-10pm at High Wire Arts Jazz by Gilad Atzmon (as), Trevor Labonte(g), Jim Kalson (b) Dean Macomber(d)
25 Tue Houston, TX: 7pm- at Ovations Night Club
Hate Me, Please
Ynet reviewed today the work of Dr. Adam Ferziger, an expert in the study of modern Jewish denominations. The Israeli academic contends that due to assimilation “the absolute majority of American Jewry won't be Jews anymore”.
According to Dr. Ferziger, Americans are just not anti-Semitic enough to maintain traditional Jewish identity. Jews have integrated so well “that most Americans don’t see being a Jew as a negative thing, but actually consider it an advantage”.
Seemingly, without being hated Jews are “getting lost”.
Ferziger continues, “Anti-Semitic phenomena are rare, especially in the upper class of the American population, and at the end of the day its open arms were what determined the assimilation trend and helped speed it up”. The take-home message is pretty clear. Jews cannot sustain their identity unless confronted by indignation in their surrounding environment. In short, it is anti-Semitism that sustains Jewish existence.
Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land
Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land from Global Information Services on Vimeo.
Expose of how Israel and pro-Israel Americans exercise powerful influence and censorship of media re Israel’s illegal and brutal occupation of Palestine.
Oakland, Feb. 20: Blankfort Interviews Atzmon DON'T MISS IT!
and you can, too!
http://wanderingwho.com/
Israeli exile Gilad Atzmon is a staunch defender of Palestinian rights and opposes the existence of a Jewish state. He is also a philosopher and iconoclast who examines the origins of Zionism and other types of exclusivist philosophy. For this, many call him racist and anti-Semitic. However, he claims that his search has brought him to a deeper anti-racism and shown him racist elements that extend beyond Zionism. He offends many, but for those with an open mind, he also makes them think, and he welcomes all questions and criticism.
Investigative journalist and writer Jeffrey Blankfort is a Bay Area treasure with a wealth of knowledge and experience on the Israel Lobby and the formation of US government policy toward Israel. He won a legal judgement against the ADL for spying and produces a weekly program on KZYX in Mendocino.
When: 8:00 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 20
Where: 6839 Saroni Drive, Oakland, CA
RSVP: 510-236-5338 genesto@aol.com
Ten reasons why I Support Alan Dershowitz, Not
By Gilad Atzmon
Ethnic cleansing enthusiast Alan Dershowitz is unhappy with the current BDS efforts (boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel). Earlier today Haaretz published Dershowitz’ diatribe on the BDS. For the first time, I have to admit, I agree with the elder Zionist mouthpiece.
Let’s review Dershowitz’ ten arguments against the BDS
1. “The BDS movement immorally imposes the entire blame for the continuing Israeli occupation and settlement policy on the Israelis.”
Dershowitz is obviously correct. It is indeed immoral to blindly blame to oppressor. The victims should also be held accountable. Israel’s open air prisons’ inmates (the Palestinians) should take responsibility once and for all. Similarly, instead of blaming the Nazis, we should follow Dershowitz’ new moral guidelines and insist that concentration camp inmates should have questioned their unwillingness to strike a peace deal with the Nazis.
Cancellation
Due to severe weather conditions in NYC we cancelled our concert tonight at Zeb’s
We will re-schedule another NYC event soon.
All the best
Gilad
EU President pledges EU loyalty to Israel, Yet Bennett storms out over 'lies'
Ynet reports today that members of Bayit Yehudi party walk out of European Parliament President's speech over his 'lies'; Bennett says he won't accept untrue moral sermon, 'definitely not German'.
European Parliament President Martin Schulz told the Knesset on Wednesday that the European Union would always stand by Israel's side, in a speech that touched on the importance of remembering the Holocaust, and his own personal perspective of the crimes of his homeland Germany crimes during World War II.
But his comments on living conditions for the Palestinians prompted a mass walk-out by members of the Bayit Yehudi party.
Party leader Naftali Bennett later took to Facebook to explain that most of his faction had left due to Schulz' "lies" about Palestinian water allocations, and his use of the word "siege" in relation to Gaza.
Israeli Jews Pray for Peace Failure
United Against Kerry...
Comment by Gilad Atzmon: If you really want to understand the current Israeli Rabbis attack on Secretary of State John Kerry and the special occasion in which it takes place, please review my article on the meaning of Purim and the Book of Esther - Counterpunch's 2007 Purim Special - From Esther to AIPAC.
As the Rabbis confirm below, the Book of Esther is there to teach the Jew how to dominate Goyim’s politics. Back in 2007 I was denounced for exposing the true meaning of Purim and The Book Of Esther. However, the Rabbis Letter's closing paragraph confirms that my analysis was spot on. We are dealing here with a totalitarian identity discourse that is driven by crude Judeo-centric supremacy.
Israeli Arutz 7 reports:
Rabbis Threaten Kerry with 'Divine Wrath'
"A group called Rabbis from the Committee to Save the Land and People of Israel sent a letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry this Sunday, warning him to end his "antagonism" towards Israel.
The rabbis sharply criticized Kerry for his plans to establish an Arab capital in Jerusalem for Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, and to have Israel withdraw to the 1949 Armistice lines. On Saturday, Kerry threatened Israel with an international boycott if peace talks fail, in addition to previous threats of a "Third Intifada" last year.
To read more: http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/united-against-kerry.html
Why BDS Should Target All Israeli Institutions
by PETER BELMONT
The BDS movement and its attack on SodaStream and Scarlett Johansson have been much in the news.
The BDS movement (the movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli businesses and institutions) aims at ending the occupation, the settlements, Israeli discrimination against Palestinian Arabs, and Israel’s long-continuing exclusion from return to its territory of the Palestinians expelled and/or exiled by Israeli forces from that territory in the 1948 war.
Some people, although they wish to see an end to the occupation and settlements, believe that BDS should target only institutions that directly support the occupation and/or settlements. They want settlements-related business to be “disentangled” from other Israeli businesses and institutions.
For reasons given below, I believe that this view would lead to a sadly truncated “movement”, shorn of most of its potential power to effect change—that BDS should target all Israeli businesses and institutions.
The trouble involved in “disentangling” settlements businesses from other Israeli businesses is worth noting. Many businesses work on both sides of the “green-line”, Israel’s boundary from 1950-1967. How can one boycott part of a business?
TPV: Richie talks to Gilad Atzman on Israeli troops patrolling borders.
We spoke about Abbas, John Kerry and the current 'peace' negotiation...
United Against Kerry...
Comment by Gilad Atzmon: If you really want to understand the current Israeli Rabbis attack on Secretary of State John Kerry and the special occasion in which it takes place, please review my article on the meaning of Purim and the Book of Esther - Counterpunch's 2007 Purim Special - From Esther to AIPAC.
As the Rabbis confirm below, the Book of Esther is there to teach the Jew how to dominate Goyim’s politics. Back in 2007 I was denounced for exposing the true meaning of Purim and The Book Of Esther. However, the Rabbis Letter's closing paragraph confirms that my analysis was spot on. We are dealing here with a totalitarian identity discourse that is driven by crude Judeo-centric supremacy.
Israeli Arutz 7 reports:
Rabbis Threaten Kerry with 'Divine Wrath'
"A group called Rabbis from the Committee to Save the Land and People of Israel sent a letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry this Sunday, warning him to end his "antagonism" towards Israel.
The rabbis sharply criticized Kerry for his plans to establish an Arab capital in Jerusalem for Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, and to have Israel withdraw to the 1949 Armistice lines. On Saturday, Kerry threatened Israel with an international boycott if peace talks fail, in addition to previous threats of a "Third Intifada" last year.
"Your incessant efforts to expropriate integral parts of our Holy Land and hand them over to Abbas’s terrorist gang, amount to a declaration of war against the Creator and Ruler of the universe. For G-d awarded the entire Land of Israel to our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in order that they bequeath it, as an everlasting inheritance, to their descendants, the Jewish people, until the end of all time," opens the rabbis' letter.
CD Review: Gerald Clark - Nakba
http://networkedblogs.com/TtEZM
Gerald Clark -Nakba
(The Interrupting Sheep BAA002. CD review by Sarah Chaplin)
New Zealand-born film composer/ songwriter / arranger Gerald Clark has only a minimal track record in the jazz world, and no particular personal connections to Palestine and its painful history, yet his beautiful, poignant jazz-infused suite arises from a deep sense of outrage at the brutality being waged there.
Clark was initially inspired by a talk given by the mother of Tom Hurndall, the British photography student and a member of the International Solidarity Movement who was killed in Palestine in 2004. He has been working on the pieces since 2002, and the potency of the full and proper gestation which the music has undergone really shines through.
If this album were a speech rather than a suite of music, it would be delivered calmly and with dignity. It would highlight the historical turning points with great precision, but without any histrionics. It would leave the listener with an acute awareness of the inherent injustice of the situation while at the same time being conscious of the incredible resilience of the human spirit. But as a speech, it would not be capable of evincing the level of pathos that the searing and lyrical lines both saxophone (Johnny Lippiett) and trumpet (Byron Wallen) achieve here, nor would it deliver the urgency and energy supplied here by the bass (Sam Lasserson) and drums (Dave Hamblett), and it could never convey the different qualities of tension and release that pianist Duncan Haynes explores.
Next Week In The USA (Amina Figarova & Gilad Atzmon)
11 Tue, Gilad Atzmon & Amina Figarova 
Baltimore, MD: 8pm- at An Die Musik — 409 N. Charles St. Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Tickets: $15 in advance/$18 at door/$10 full-time students with ID - A new, interesting development of the artistic dialogue between New York based pianist Amina Figarova, originally from Azerbaijan, and saxophone player Gilad Atzmon that began a few years ago in Luxembourg and destined to further, surprising developments. Gilad and Amina were invited for a special concert at the Jazzclub L’Inoui, and they had an amazing experience playig together.Recently they decided to do a duo project, with upcoming concerts in the UK and the USA.
12 Wed meet Gilad in Brooklyn, NYC, for details contact Gilad on giladatzmon (at) me.com
13 Thu NYC, NY: Jazz Night @ Zeb with Gilad Atzmon, Saul "Zebulon" Rubin on guitar and Ben Meigners, Manhattan, NYC 223 West 28th Street NYC $20.00 ($21.69 w/service fee: good for two sets) ticket available from: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/573918 .
14 Meet Gilad in Hackensack, NJ. or details contact Gilad on giladatzmon (at) me.com
15 Sat Montclair, NJ: Time : Trumpets Jazz Club & Restaurant / 6 Depot Square Montclair, New Jersey 07042 / Amina Figarova & Gilad Atzmon's Quartet
Watch Amina & Gilad
Welcome To The United King-Doom
By Gilad Atzmon 
Dieudonné M'bala M'bala , the genius outspoken French comedian who rebelled against the primacy of Jewish suffering has been banned from entering Britain.
The Home Office has declared the performer persona non grata and warned he will not be allowed into the country. It has alerted airlines, other transport companies and border officials that the performer, whose stage name is Dieudonné, is an "excluded" individual. A spokesperson said: "We can confirm that Mr Dieudonné is subject to an exclusion order. With 80% of out Tory MPs being Conservative Friends Of Israel you would expect England becoming a ghetto.
As we all know, in recent years the British governments have launched more than just one immoral Zionist interventionist war. In the name of elementary ‘freedom’ we dropped bombs and killed over a million of innocent Muslims. Hence, I am curious to know how the UK Home Office justifies its latest measure against freedom of speech. Do they really believe that a French comedian who hardly speaks English endangers our homeland security?
Interview: Atzmon on Dieudonné, Alain Soral and Zionism
Interviewed by Alimuddin Usmani
http://www.egaliteetreconciliation.fr/
AU: What led you to offer Dieudonné such support in his struggle against the French government?
GA: Dieudonné is the true meaning of resistance. Being cogent and coherent, he has managed to expose in France the corrosive bond between contemporary Zionised socialism and Jewish political power.
For some time now, many of us who, in the 60s and 70s, were inspired by Left thinking have been confused by contemporary ‘progressive’ politics. For some reason, the so-called ‘New Left’ was very quick to compromise on crucial issues to do with labour and working class politics. Instead of siding with the workers and those struggling in society, the post-68 Left adopted an identity-politics discourse that was actually aimed at breaking up society and the working class into isolated marginalisd groups. This led to political paralysis which in turn prepared the way for the invasion of big money, monopoly culture and globalization. It is this that Dieudonné, has managed to expose. He has also identified the power of the Holocaust religion and Jewish lobby power at the very heart of political establishment. Being the author of The Wandering Who - the book that took apart Jewish identity politics, I see Dieudonné as a continuation of myself. He is my twin and I stand up for both him and his cause.
AU: Dieudonné’s detractors accuse him of antisemitism and as evidence they offer that in his show, (now banned) he said this about a prominent Jewish radio journalist: "You see, when I hear Patrick Cohen speak, I think to myself : Gas chambers...too bad". His supporters explain that Dieudonné was simply responding to a provocation from this journalist who said that Dieudonné must be blacklisted from mainstream media and that people with "mental illness " shouldn't be invited to comment publically. What do you think? Did he go too far or do you think he had the right to respond to someone who wished for his social, economic and professional demise?
GA: Those Jews who insist that the Holocaust become our new state religion must accept that such a claim comes with a price. If you choose to identify yourself with gas chambers, Auschwitz and victimhood you must also accept that you will be identified as such by others. I have no problem with Dieudonné’s reaction to Cohen. Dieudonné is an artist, his duty is to reshape and revise the vision of the world around us. Accordingly, placing a mirror in front of Cohen was a most appropriate thing to do.