Sunday
Jul212013
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, Redress, Shoa (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.
Entries from July 1, 2013 - July 31, 2013
Sunday
Jul212013
No Bed for History Revisionists
Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 8:25PM Gilad Atzmon 
By Gilad Atzmon
The Algemeiner, certainly the most revolting Jewish media outlet around, announced today that the German hotel industry is giving a cold shoulder to David Irving. Consequently the history revisionist is ‘unlikely to find a room in Berlin.’
After plans by Irving to return this September to speak at a $120-a-head dinner were revealed, a campaign by Green Party Bundestag member Volker Beck called on hotels in the German capital not to allow the speaker to book a room. According to the Jewish media outlet, Berlin’s hotel and restaurant association responded positively to the campaign, urging its members not to allow Irving to book a room.
The Berlin hoteliers association told its members “Please don’t give any ‘room’ to right-wing extremist propaganda.”
The left has been using the ‘no platform’ tactics for more than a while. It attempts to block speakers, academics, artists and intellectuals who don’t ‘fit in’ from sharing their thoughts with the public. Evidently this approach has now matured into a new phase – the ‘no bed’ strategy.
Saturday
Jul202013
How Whites Took Over America
Saturday, July 20, 2013 at 11:45AM Gilad Atzmon Watch this short cartoon and listen to the Hasbara Neocon projection expressed by the British colonial officers. 'Humanism' seems to be a pre-text for genocide. Eventually, the indigenous people are destroyed in the name 'liberal ethics' and even 'anti racism.' It is obviously there to remind us of the Zionist crime in Palestine.
This anti immigration/anti diversity film deserves attention - it contends that 'liberal tolerance' is actually inherently intolerant. This issue is becoming a priority, so it seems.
Thursday
Jul182013
Jewish Snakes and Kosher Sharks
Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 3:49PM Gilad Atzmon
The Jewish Chronicle reported yesterday that an Israeli man was rushed to hospital after a snake bit his penis during a visit to the toilet.
The 35-year-old received medical treatment after feeling “a sharp burning sensation” on his penis last Friday.
The man was sitting on the toilet at his family’s home in Nofit, northern Israel. But then Oy vey, completely out the blue, a small snake came out of the toilet through the pipe and latched onto the end of his penis.
Sources within the Israeli Chief Rabbi office leaked today that the snake was part of a new Talmudic program to counter the apparent influx in numbers of non-circumcised penises in Israel. A unit of kosher snakes has been deployed in the Israeli sewage, they apparently visit toilets and hit the Goyim where it really hurts.
Following the success of the snake unit, the Chief Rabbi, Willy Short, launched an experimental shark program in the Red Sea. A unit of 12 sharks is now undergoing intensive training. Within six month they are due to perform unsolicited in-water circumcisions.
Wednesday
Jul172013
Gilad Atzmon & The OHE @ London's Hideaway this Saturday
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 10:51AM Gilad Atzmon 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 ****
Wednesday
Jul172013
Freedom Stitchers - need your support
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 9:25AM Gilad Atzmon http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/freedom-stitchers
“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
Monday
Jul152013
The Death Merchants of Tel Aviv
Monday, July 15, 2013 at 12:06PM Gilad Atzmon 
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.
Sunday
Jul142013
Israel behind mystery attack on Syrian port - US sources
Sunday, July 14, 2013 at 3:19PM Gilad Atzmon Friday
Jul122013
Israeli Settler explains Zionism to Palestinian farmers
Friday, July 12, 2013 at 8:53PM Gilad Atzmon Friday
Jul122013
And Now They Want The Temple Rebuilt
Friday, July 12, 2013 at 11:46AM Gilad Atzmon 
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.
