Alain Soral and Gilad Atzmon on Jewish Power and cultural narcissism

An Interview by Alimuddin Usmani

Translated by Romain Redouin (http://www.egaliteetreconciliation.fr)

Alain Soral and Gilad Atzmon have each faced (and perhaps welcomed) criticism and controversy as a result of their intellectual inquiries  and honest reasoning. Neither man has shied away from politically incorrect observations including  those on issues of Zionism, culture, Europe or freedom of speech.

How  did you get to know each other?

 AS: I first got to know  Gilad through his  music. I am a jazz lover  and have long appreciated Gilad who is an internationally known and admired  musician. Gilad also played with Robert Wyatt who has been my favorite musician since I was 16. 

Gilad and I met in person two years ago at the Paris Book Fair. He was there to finalize the contract of his latest book, "The Wandering Who?" which is co-published by my publishing company, Kontre Kulture.

I am blown away by Gilad’s courage  and lucidity. By culture and experience I have seen that those Jews who are able to tear the veil of tribalism to reach the  authentic universal are very rare, although they are always the best!

GA: Soral published one of the two French editions of my latest book, "The Wandering Who." I met him at  the Paris book fair 2 years ago and in spite of the language barrier between us, I have managed to learn a lot from him. Soral is one of the last European intellectuals. And it is far from surprising that the Left is outraged by his profound political and ideological insights.

For quite a while those who oppose, satirize or criticize the domination of the Zionist lobby within French politics and media, seem to be subject to political abuse and judicial persecution. Why do you think the Zionist elite choose to target France in particular?

AS: It should be noted first that France has, or suffers from - depending on your point of view –  what is by far the largest Jewish community in Europe, with nearly 700,000 members, while  Italy or Spain, for example, have about  40,000. The pressure and the influence of this very organized  community on French power and policy are inevitably proportional to its size. 

There are also some historical components that are particular to France: France prides itself on being the country of human rights, it was the first nation to emancipate the Jews of Europe, it had the Dreyfus affair, the maintained guilt of Petainism, the Zionism of the Fourth Republic, the dominance of the Grand Orient masonry on the supposedly French socialist left ... These are some of the many factors that  give our "organized Jewish community" as it defines itself, its effective and overwhelming position of moral watchdog.

GA:  I think that the Jewish Lobby is particularly forceful in France as a result of the impact of the '68 student revolution. French society has been broken into a multitude of identity groups, and the more broken a society is, the more it tends to subscribe to Jewish politics. The reason is simple. After 3000 years of tribal exilic operation, the Jewish intelligencia is the most advanced in identity sectarian politics and cultural manipulation.

The gist of identity politics is an attempt to transform the cohesive host nation into a myriad of godless synagogues.  To some extent, Soral and Dieudonné have managed to unite what is left of the French working class; which includes Muslims,  Arabs, Blacks and  Whites. And as we have seen, the Jews and the Socialists see this development as an imminent danger.  

Click to read more ...

Press TV: US signaling to Israel by denying visas

The United States is sending signals to Israel that “it is far from being at the Israeli conduct” by denying visa requests from hundreds of Israeli military and intelligence officials, an activist says.

“I think the American administration realized by now that they were gambling and for more than a while on the wrong horse,” Gilad Atzmon told Press TV in a phone interview on Thursday.

He made the remarks after a report said Washington refused to grant visas to Israeli officials over the past year.

According to the report published in the Hebrew-language daily Maariv, Washington is also giving short-term visas to Israeli army officials who are already in the US or making some of them leave for Canada to get their visas renewed after weeks.

Click to read more ...

On Monday - 'The Life of Bessie Smith'

Sarah Gillespie Quartet feat Gilad Atzmon

'The Life of Bessie Smith'

March 10th 2014, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho

8pm £15.00 To buy tickets go *here*

The Guardian - John Fordham

British-American singer-songwriter Sarah Gillespie isn't just a powerful amalgam of influences including Bob Dylan and Tom Waits (with an occasional diversion into sounding like Edith Piaf in a bluegrass band), she's a socially sensitive performer who writes pungently telling lyrics and has the rare knack of making politics and music sound as if they belong together. She's the diametric opposite of the 21st-century hypercool jazz singer and she doesn't keep her emotions on the back burner.

In this respect, she has plenty in common with the founding heroine of blues and folk-rooted vocals over the past century, "Empress of the Blues" Bessie Smith. Smith was one of Sarah Gillespie's earliest models, and she's the subject of Gillespie's tribute show in the Jazz Interpretations series at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club on 10 March, with a specially-assembled quartet including pianist Kit Downes and surprise guests yet to be announced. Gillespie's realism, passionate energy, wry wit and insight into the personal and social challenges Smith faced in the 1920s and 30s make her an appropriate torch-bearer for the legendary singer's legacy.

"(Gillespie) mixes urban folk, jazz and vivid intimate lyrics you can imagine scrawled in lipstick on Beat Hotel bed linen." The Independent. ★★★★

Sarah Gillespie - guitar and vocals 

Gilad Atzmon - accordion, clarinet and sax. 

Kit Downes - piano

Ben Bastin - bass

Enzo Zirilli - drums

Emma Devine - vocals 

Sarah Gillespie London Jazz Podcast Interview 

www.sarahgillespie.com

Alain Soral: On The Complete Freedom To Consume

On Abby Martin, Freedom and Tolerance

By Gilad Atzmon

RT’s presenter Abby Martin has bought herself a reputation as a 911 sceptic and a vocal opponent of Israeli‘s policies . Yesterday she denounced Russian action in Crimea while she was live on air.

She said she 'would not sit here and apologise or defend (Russian) military aggression,' before saying her 'heart went out' to the Ukrainian people whom she described as 'the real losers here.' 
Ms Martin hosts on the American version of the channel and made her statement at the end of her show

 

http://youtu.be/IHYUPbnSs_0

She said: 'Before I wrap up the show, I wanted to say something from my heart about the ongoing political crisis in Ukraine and Russia's military occupation of Crimea. 'Just because I work here, for RT, doesn't mean I don't have editorial independence and I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any military intervention in sovereign nations' affairs.’

'What Russia did is wrong!'

Following Martin’s announcement, many western media outlets were quick to denounce the ‘Kremlin’s funded’ TV network and its authoritarian manner, but the fact that Martin openly criticised the Russian government proves the opposite. Martin’s statement means that Russia is far more respectful of freedom of speech and thought than our so called ‘Free West.’

Click to read more ...

The French Jewish Terrorist Organisation

Hopefully, we will have it translated into English soon..

Counter Hasbara - Must Watch!!!

Only Then Shalom May Prevail

By Gilad Atzmon

PM Netanyahu told President Obama earlier today that “Palestinians are failing to advance peace.” 

Netanyahu was obviously correct!

1. Palestinians must stop oppressing Israelis and Jews.

2. If the Palestinians want peace, they better end the occupation immediately.

3. The Palestinians must stop building in the West Bank.

4. And if the Palestinians want peace for real, they better give up on the racist, supremacist, anti Jewish  idea that Israel becomes a true democracy and a state of its citizens.

Only then Shalom may prevail.

The War Against Trevor (LaBonte)

Gilad Atzmon interviews Trevor Labonte

Until two years ago, Trevor LaBonte was one of the most successful Jazz artists in Texas. He had been performing every night and in the most prestigious venues. He was the first-call guitar player for many of Austin’s prominent musicians. But then it all changed.

Gilad Atzmon: Trevor you were a local Jazz hero, what happened?

Trevor LaBonte: An activist named Craig Berlin, owner of Pro-Tape Staff in Austin, organized a campaign  to destroy my career by terrorizing the entire Austin music community. He creates Facebook posts in which he tags 50 or 60 important people in town, and reports to them that I am a ‘Nazi,’ an ‘Anti-Semite,’ and a ‘holocaust denier.’ Berlin demands that everyone must do everything in their power to make sure I never play another note in public. At first, most people ignored him, but  then others took up his cause, including the radio DJ Andy Langer from KGSR, helping to make sure I have become a hate figure and completely ostracized.

Let me understand correctly, you didn’t publish a book or even an article, all that vile campaign against you was launched because you expressed some thoughts on your own Facebook page? Is it correct?

--Yes, that's what happened.

How have your friends reacted to this onslaught?

--They are confused and afraid, mostly. Many of them quietly agree with at least some of what I say, and they are still friends with me. But understandably, they are scared to be listed in a performance announcement with me, since they would be certain to draw the hissing and screeching and boycott of Craig Berlin's fans. Most of my friends are sad and just want to play music together. Anyone who tries to stick up for me, or just moderate the witch hunt against me,  risks being similarly attacked themselves. And the attacks are vile. Musicians are not used to being vilified for unusual opinions

Click to read more ...

Anthony Lawson: Syria - The Crime and the Criminals

The Syrian civil war, insurrection, rebellion, revolt, uprising, call it what you will, was not home grown in Syria by Syrians with differing outlooks as to how their nation should be governed—as the mainstream media would have you believe—it was part of a strategy pre-planned by vicious, sociopathic foreigners called “Neocons” and they began their planning in 1991, following the first invasion of Iraq, code-named: Dessert Storm.  To date, the major beneficiary of their diabolical planning has been the Jewish State, but that maybe coming to an end.