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    Atzmon writes  on political matters, social issues,  Jewish identity and culture. His  papers are published on very many press outlets around the world.  Here is just a short list of his recent publications: World News, Press Tv, Rebelion, The Daily Telegraph, Uprooted Palestinians, Veterans Today, Palestine Telegraph, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Aljazeera Magazine,   Information Clearing House,   Middle-East-Online,   Palestine Chronicle, The People Voice, RedressShoa (The Palestinian Holocaust) , The Guardian, transcend and many more.

    Gilad Atzmon's New Book: The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics

    Jewish identity is tied up with some of the most difficult and contentious issues of today. The purpose in this book is to open many of these issues up for discussion. Since Israel defines itself openly as the ‘Jewish State’, we should ask what the notions of ’Judaism’, ‘Jewishness’, ‘Jewish culture’ and ‘Jewish ideology’ stand for. Gilad examines the tribal aspects embedded in Jewish secular discourse, both Zionist and anti Zionist; the ‘holocaust religion’; the meaning of ‘history’ and ‘time’ within the Jewish political discourse; the anti-Gentile ideologies entangled within different forms of secular Jewish political discourse and even within the Jewish left. He questions what it is that leads Diaspora Jews to identify themselves with Israel and affiliate with its politics. The devastating state of our world affairs raises an immediate demand for a conceptual shift in our intellectual and philosophical attitude towards politics, identity politics and history.

    The book is available on Amazon.com  or Amazon.co.uk

    Gilad Atzmon on HardTalk BBC Persia (english) from Gilad Atzmon on Vimeo.


    Wednesday
    Apr272011

    Anthony Lawson: No-Fly Zone over Gaza — Petition 

    No-Fly Zone Over Gaza — Petition from Anthony Lawson on Vimeo.

    Petition written by Dr. Mohamed Khodr
    http://www.petitiononline.com/p181p194/petition-sign.html

    Tuesday
    Apr262011

    Young Arab Jews open letter to Arab peers

    Introduction by Gilad Atzmon:

    In spite of being the majority amongst the Israeli Jewish population, Arab Jews are heavily discriminated in Israel, both culturally and economically. Due to Zio-centric pressure and Euro-centric culture, Arab Jews have been reluctant to openly explore their heritage. Needless to mention that Arab military defeats didn’t help either, for decades Arab Jews in Israel have tended to hide their Arabic past.  For the obvious reasons Arab Jews in Israel have been found at the forefront of every possible political form of negation towards Palestinians and Arabs in general. They clearly wanted to disassociate themselves from their Arab past through blind identification with Zionist ideology and Israeli militancy.

    Things, however, may change these days. Following the regional Intifada and the rise of Arab masses, young Arab Jews in Israel are becoming aware of their true origin and their culture. The following is an open letter to Arab peers written by Young Israeli Arab Jews- young people who come to realise who they are, where they come from and what they stand for.

    “We Identify with you,” they confess to their Arab young neighbours. They relocate themselves within a new geo-political vision.  “We are a part of the religious, cultural, and linguistic history of the Middle East and North Africa.” They see Israel for what it is, “we, too, live in a regime that in reality—despite its pretensions to being ‘enlightened’ and ‘democratic’—does not represent large sections of its actual population in the Occupied Territories and inside of the Green Line border(s).”

    However the young Arab Jews seem to come short of accepting the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian Right of Return. Though they advocate solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, they are yet to support or acknowledge the rights of Palestinian refugees. Like the Israeli ‘Left’, the young Arab Jews are willing to support the Palestinians as long as they stay behind the wall. We support the  “struggle of the Palestinian people living under Israeli military occupation...in their demand to end the occupation and to gain Palestinian national independence.”

    This is not a lot but it is certainly more than nothing.

    Young Mizrahi Israelis’ open letter to Arab peers

    http://972mag.com/young-mizrahi-israelis-open-letter-to-arab-peers/

    Translated from Hebrew;  English edited by Chana Morgenstern | Arabic version here

    In a letter titled “Ruh Jedida: A New Spirit for 2011,” young Jewish descendants of the Arab and Islamic world living in Israel write to their peers in the Middle East and North Africa

    We, as the descendents of the Jewish communities of the Arab and Muslim world, the Middle East and the Maghreb, and as the second and third generation of Mizrahi Jews in Israel, are watching with great excitement and curiosity the major role that the men and women of our generation are playing so courageously in the demonstrations for freedom and change across the Arab world. We identify with you and are extremely hopeful for the future of the revolutions that have already succeeded in Tunisia and Egypt. We are equally pained and worried at the great loss of life in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, and many other places in the region.

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    Monday
    Apr252011

    Israeli Police Terrorize Palestinian Prisoners (must watch)

    Mohamed Ashkar, a Palestinian prisoner, was murdered by the Israelis.

    There is no limit to Israeli barbarism.

    For English translation, click here  then hit the cc button.

    Sunday
    Apr242011

    Petition: "No Fly Zone" Over Gaza, Please Sign Now!!!


    Urging the U.N. Security Council to Establish a "No Fly Zone" Over Gaza under the Principle of "Responsibility to Protect"

    http://www.petitiononline.com/p181p194/petition.html

     

    Ken O'Keefe: Human Chain to Spell 'NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE'

      "Every single time another Israeli bomb drops on the innocents of Palestine, this picture shall be put forward as the demand of a truly sane and humane international community."

    http://youtu.be/ylVlFfFUk8w

    to learn more: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april212011/human-chain-gaza.php

    Sunday
    Apr242011

    Vera Macht: Vik, You Are missed


    You are missed with such an intensity that makes you even more present. In all of our minds, in all of our hearts. It's your absence that makes your strength, your kindness and your impressive dedication to people and to humanity so incredibly present.


    You are missed as a symbol of the struggle for justice, and for the value of each individual, the value of especially those people who seem to have been forgotten.

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    Sunday
    Apr242011

    Gilad Atzmon: "Tribal Marxism for Dummies"

    This is an old paper of mine it was published originally on PTT (June 2009).  I re-post  it following the disappearance of PTT and its Archive.

     

    "The European left must make a serious critical assessment of this “we know better” attitude and the ways it tends to deal with popular forces in the south as ideologically and politically inferior." Hisham Bustani

    “The subsequent emergence of Islamism holds a false promise. While it poses a challenge to Western domination, it is backward looking and inherently unable to deliver progress.” Moshe Machover June 2009

    For very many years the Palestinian solidarity discourse was dominated by leftist ideology carried largely by Jewish Marxists. Though the support of Jewish leftists was rather important at an early stage, it lost its primacy and urgency as Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian solidarity discourse evolved into a vivid autonomous discourse based on widely accepted ethical grounds. The Israeli war crimes against Palestinians are now well documented. No one needs the odd kosher ‘righteous Jew’ to approve that this is indeed the case.

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    Sunday
    Apr242011

    Israeli Humour- Mocking Jesus on Israeli  TV

    Easter Weekend Special......

    Thursday
    Apr212011

    Gilad Atzmon: The Israeli So-Called ‘Left’

    We learned today that some 300 prominent Israeli left-wingers, including some cultural leaders, gathered in Tel Aviv to call for the Jewish state to embrace the creation of a Palestinian state.

    Among the petition's  signatories were 17 winners of the Israel Prize and other leding intellectuals and artists.

    "We are here to welcome the expected announcement of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel, according to the borders of our independence, fixed during the 1949 armistice," the petition reads.

    The Israeli so-called ‘Leftists’ are welcoming the expected Palestinian State as long as the Palestinians stay behind the wall and do not exercise their right of return. The Israeli humanists basically endorse the Palestinian diplomatic initiative so they can keep dwelling on Palestinian land forever. I am not impressed at all.

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    Thursday
    Apr212011

    Ken O'Keefe: Thoughts on Vittorio Arrigoni & Surfing in Gaza

    Thursday
    Apr212011

    Agron Belica: End of the Road 

    Dedicated to Gaza Activist Vittorio Arrigoni

    http://salem-news.com/articles/april202011/vik-arrigoni-tk-sk-ag.php

      New song and music video celebrate life of Vik Arrigoni of ISM, the International Solidarity Movement.

    ittorio Arrigoni's image on the separation wall in Gaza
    Vittorio Arrigoni's image on the separation wall in Gaza

     - While producing the music video for this new Vittorio Arrignoi tribute song by Agron Belica, with my son Sean, it occurred to me how lucky I am to have my children, and how Vittorio or Vik, as he was known to his friends, won't get to become my age, or experience things that I and so many extremely fortunate western people do each day.

    Had Vik been allowed to reach his real potential, he would have moved mountains.

    As it is, only he and a handful of others have been carrying the load for world humanity in Gaza, and that is tragic like his death, and also the point of this important tribute by our good friend and fellow Salem-News.com writer Agron Belica, who in addition to his role as a singer/songwriter, is author of The Crucifixion: Mistaken Identity? John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ.

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    The wandering who- Gilad Atzmon

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