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Germany says yes to Jewish blood Ritual

After months of controversy, German lawmakers overwhelmingly approved legislation to guarantee that male circumcision remains legal in Germany.

The legislation makes it clear that parents have the right to circumcise their newborn sons if the practice follows medical rules and is carried out by a trained practitioner. Once the boy reaches the age of six months, only a doctor can perform the circumcision.

The new legislation accommodates Jews who insist that the ritual must be carried out by a specially designated person known as a mohel. The Central Council of Jews in Germany said it would start a training program to ensure that mohels receive proper medical training. However, it is not clear whether the German legislators are aware of the devastating fact that Jewish circumcision involves blood sucking (metzitzah b’peh). One may wonder,  how can German medical authorities allow such a dangerous as well as  sickening blood ritual to be carried out in their state.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DdknKq915g

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From Jeff Blankfort To Gilad Atzmon and Philip Weiss

FROM: Jeff Blankfort

TO: Gilad Atzmon and Phil Weiss

Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: It has long been accepted that Zionism and Israel, because they can so easily cause antisemitism, are ‘not good for the Jews’. But now, as I predicted, it has become evident that it is actually the so-called ‘progressive’ Jews who constitute the real danger to Jews. That Judeo-centric spin, inherent in the Jewish ‘left’, together with its relentlessly duplicitous inclinations have left us all with a very negative image of all forms of Jewish identity politics.

In reaction to my deconstruction of Philip Weiss’ latest and very problematic rant yesterday, prominent American pro-Palestinian activist Jeff Blankfort wrote the following to Philip Weiss and myself, which I publish with Jeff’s consent.

Dear Gilad

Write on, bro! I am amazed how after my banning Phil can still speak critically of Jewish establishment censorship of fellow Jews without facing his own hypocrisy.

I watched the JVP video (thanks for the link) and there is no mention that every Jewish settlement is illegal under international war; no mention of the wars that Israel has launched on Lebanon (concern for the fate of the Lebanese is not on JVP's agenda or in its mindset, nor is Iran for that matter) and though it mentions with implied criticism but not the figures for US military aid for Israel, there is also no call for it to be stopped (or even suspended). Nor, and this is the key, is there any reference to the influential role of the American and world Jewish establishment in support of Israel and its crimes.

In other words, like Chomsky and Phyllis Bennis, JVP is providing cover for the Zionist establishment and trying to define the conflict in terms that don't point accusing fingers at Jews as Jews as one would expect of anti-Zionist Zionists

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Watch IDF fleeing soldiers

As we are watching Israel facing its final and terminal phase, the images of Israeli military cowardice are becoming more and more common.

X Y Z vs Gaza

Lasse Wilhelmson and Freedom in Sweden

Introductio by Gilad Atzmon: For some time, Swedish Palestinian female TV presenter Gina Dirawi has been chased by Sweden’s Zionist protagonists within the media . Dirawi has been outspoken about Israeli crimes and Palestinian rights. But recently when she referred to Lasse wilhelmsons book ‘Is The World Upside down?’, hell broke loose. Wilhelmson is critical of the Jewish state, Zionism and Jewish power.  Wilhelmson was one of the first thinkers who pointed at clear ideological and spiritual  affiliation between Zionism and the Left, a theme i myself developed in my work. The Swedish media would prefer to keep Wilhelmson in the fringe. The Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet now seems to want him in jail. What we see here is an outrageous and unacceptable assault on freedom of expression. The following are two of Lasse’s answers to his detractors.

 Lasse Wilhelmson's Reply to Åsa Linderborg  - Cultural Editor of the tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet

Dear Åsa

In your capacity as Chief Cultural Editor for Aftonbladet, in your article Let's take a look at this shit (28th November 2012), and in front of the entire Swedish nation you have ‘named and shamed’ me (including a photo) as an evil person who deserves condemnation and also probably to be locked up. And why? Simply for holding some opinions. (1)

Reading through the article, which incidentally does not include one single quote from my book Is the World Upside Down?, I ask myself, why would you do that? After all, you’re an educated person, an intellectual, a significant representative of the Swedish cultural elite. You have written a prizewinning book about your childhood, you’re an influential voice of the Swedish left and you have presented yourself as a "free speech fundamentalist".

You write: "Wilhelmson hates Jews and denies the Holocaust - he always puts inverted commas round it, and he thinks Israel as a nation should be wiped off the map". I have already accounted for my view on "Holocaust deniers" in my reply to Expo, so here I will do it in the form of some questions for you:

1. Do you consider that what happened to the Jews during the Second World War as a historic event that can be legitimately researched, discussed and revised as we do with other historic events?

If the answer is no then my next question is: Why?

If the answer is yes, the question is: In that case, why is it that, in so many western countries, so many who have done so, have been sentenced to prison?

2. Do you know of any other historic events in our time where people have been imprisoned for having an opinion that differs from the norm?

And lastly to you as a "free speech fundamentalist":

3. Do you think opinions should be punishable?

Accusations of hating a whole population carries with them, I think, a considerable burden of proof. You have produced none. Asa, I do not hate people, only deeds and ideas, and above all, hypocrisy. But perhaps it is you who hates people who do not share your views - for example, me.

You say that I believe that Israel should be obliterated, though I have never expressed myself in that way. I could say that you are lying, but I prefer to think you are simply deluded..

In my lifetime, I have appeared many times in the media and I have always been given the chance to defend myself when attacked – except that is, when the questions concern Zionism and its short-term goal of a Jewish state in Palestine. Why is this? Could it be that what I have to say is dangerous – perhaps just a little too close to the truth?

Why do you behave in the manner of witch hunts and book burnings when I am simply trying to understand how the world works and which forces lie behind war and misery? My book includes much about this, complete with notes and references.

Over time, I have indeed come to embrace views other than your comfy "leftist" ones. Nowadays, I think ideologies and religions have both light and dark sides - sometimes they are used to liberate people, sometimes to persecute. But, above all, I believe that in order to set ourselves and others free, our thinking must be liberated from the prohibition of forbidden thoughts and from limited thought systems.  

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Not The Wisest Phil Around

By Gilad Atzmon

God bless Philip Weiss, the progressive Jewish blogger brave enough to admit in public those things other Jewish ethnic activists prefer to shove under the carpet. A year ago, Weiss was brave enough to confess to me that it is ‘Jewish self interests’ that stands at the core of his pro Palestinian activism. Also, a few weeks ago, the same Weiss was honest enough to announce that his Jewish ‘progressive’ internet journal, Mondowiess, changed its comment policy and “will no longer serve as a forum to pillory Jewish culture and religion as the driving factors in Israeli and US policy.”

But this week, the very same Weiss published a new polemic on his website. He now thinks that “it’s time for the media to talk about Zionism.” So, now Weiss is happy to join with the rest of us in talking about Zionism - so long as we avoid discussing ‘Jewishness’. Well, I’m afraid that Philip Weiss may have missed the train since, by now, many of us have already grasped that the time is ripe to talk about Jewishness and the role of ‘Jewish culture as the driving factor in Israeli and US policy.’

Weiss’ logic is no doubt fascinating. This Jewish ethnic activist does provide us with an insight into the level of deceit that is, unfortunately, inherent to Jewish left politics.

Weiss thinks Jews should ask themselves whether they really are ‘unsafe’ in America. Well, Weiss must know plenty about ‘safety’ since it was he himself who felt that it may be ‘risky’ to discuss Jewish culture and religion on his own Mondoweiss.

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Khaled Meshaal in Gaza

If the Israelis expected the Hamas to become a Palestinian Judenrat, Hamas' leader Khaled Meshaal made it clear today that this is not going to happen anytime soon.  

Meshaal told tens of thousands of people marking Hamas' 25th anniversary that his party will not recognise Israel.

In a fiery speech during his first ever visit to Gaza, he said Palestinians would not cede any part of their land.

Israel’s  recent defeat in Gaza made it very clear that Hamas and Islamic resistance is the appropriate answer to Israeli barbarism.  

Tens of thousands of Gazans made their way to the Hamas rally earlier today at the al-Qatiba complex west of Gaza City to hear the speech by Mr Meshaal.

"As long as Palestine is ours and Palestine is the land of Arabism and Islam, we can never recognise the legitimacy of Israel's occupation of it," Meshaal told supporters.

"There is no legitimacy for occupation. Hence, there is no legitimacy for Israel, however long time lasts."

The centrepiece of Saturday's rally in Gaza City was a huge replica of a type of rocket Gazans fired at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in the recent weeks.

Israel, the US and the EU still consider Hamas a terrorist organisation. However, the Hamas is now a key player in Middle East politics, and it won’t take long before Israel and its allies are ready to accept it.

The Jewish 'Philsopher'..

Why should the Arabs pay for crimes committed by Europeans, the Jewish 'philsopher' Bernard-Henri Lévy

provides the answer: 'the Arabs are Nazis'.

Not exactly Plato or Kant...

Report: Israeli apostate blamed for UK anti-Semitism

Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: The following Hasbara piece crowns my book and myself as the ultimate exponents of  “a relatively new form of antisemitism injected into the anti-Zionist discourse”. The piece admits a Jewish political dedication to book burning and the author behind this piece is somehow desperate to silence me and my work. The Hasabra writer is also convinced that it is down to Jews to decide what Brits should read who should be featured in their media outlets.    

Needless to say that any of my critics have yet to point at a single drop of antisemitsm, racism or an incitement of any kind of hatred in my entire work. I am indeed an opponent of Jewish politics and highly critical of Jewish power. However, I am clearly delighted to learn that Hasbara as well as a few Sabbath Goyim are devastated by my work.  It seems the Hasbara man didn't find many followers in the BBC or in Manchester City Council. But he certainly regards Ali Abunimah and an ally.

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Report: Israeli apostate blamed for UK anti-Semitism - by Richard Mather

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12532#.UMBR-YWOFzU

http://defenseoftheisraelipeople.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/report-israeli-apostate-blamed-for-uk-anti-semitism/

   

An investigation into Judeophobia in Britain concludes that Jewish renegade and jazz saxophonist Gilad Atzmon is responsible for injecting a “relatively new form of antisemitism into anti-Zionist discourse” in the UK.

According to Antisemitic Discourse in Britain in 2011, published by the Community Security Trust, which monitors anti-Semitism in the UK, the apostate Israeli’s rancorous views are contributing to a climate of mistrust and hostility.

Thankfully, explicit anti-Semitism in British public life is rare, says the report. Nevertheless, anti-Semitic themes alleging Jewish conspiracy and power still exist within mainstream discourse about Israel and Zionism. This, claims the CST, is partly due to the nefarious writings of Atzmon, whose recent book The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics is cited as an example of anti-Semitic discourse.

The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics, power  and collective psychosis
 Amazon.com  or Amazon.co.uk

Atzmon, born in Tel Aviv and trained at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem, describes himself as a “proud self-hating Jew.” Now based in London, Atzmon has released over a dozen jazz albums. Atzmon is also a prolific opponent of Israel, Jews and Judaism. His conspiratorial articles have been published by a number of dubious media outlets, including Counterpunch, Al-Arab online, the Palestine Telegraph and Aljazeera.info.

The Wandering Who? was released in September 2011 by left-wing publisher Zero Books. It is packed with anti-Semitic rhetoric and is barely distinguishable from the worst Nazi propaganda (one of the chapter headings is “Swindler’s List”). The book is a litany of hatred and lies that blames Jewish bankers for two world wars and “one communist revolution.” Jews are also responsible, says Atzmon, for persuading the UK to attack Iraq in order to “erase one of the last pockets of Arab resistance to Zionism.” Jews, he asserts, have no origin in Palestine “whatsoever” and Israeli children who visit Auschwitz return home to “mimic SS barbarity.” And perhaps most shockingly, Atzmon states that one day people “may be bold enough” to argue that “Hitler was right after all.” This is just a small sample of the book’s outrageous claims.

A few months ago I tried to have all copies of The Wandering Who? removed from libraries in Manchester, which is home to Britain’s second-largest and fastest-growing Jewish community. But because the book “has not incurred penalties under the law,” the city council says “it should not be excluded from libraries on any moral, political, religious or racist ground alone to satisfy any sectional interest.” Apparently, Manchester city council believe that the book is a legitimate expression of “human experience and activity.” I will, of course, try again to have all copies removed from the city’s libraries on the grounds that such blatant anti-semitism does not serve the public interest and may actually incite hatred or violence against the Jewish community.

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