Bulldozers in Gaza; anti-fascists in Portland

Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: It doesn't take a genius to find out that in many cases, the so-called 'progressive' AntiFa organisations, are actually Zionist settings fully dedicated to Jewish tribal politics and interests. Here in Britain we found out that the 'anti' racist Hope not Hate is a hardcore Zionist outlet. In  Germany the infamous Anti-Deutsche is working closely with the Israeli Embassy. In the USA the situation is obviously similar. In the following article Tim Calvert, a Palestinian solidarity activist  from Portland,  Oregon reveals what the struggle for justice means for real. For the last three years, Tim has been subject to an ongoing Hasbara's text book smear campaigns. He needs our support. 

Tim Calvert, October 2012

 Protest against AIPAC Gathering, Portland, Oregon USA

For over three years, a small, anonymous group called “rose city antifa” has been trying to oust me from the Citybikes co-op in Portland, Oregon, of which I am a founder member, supposedly because of 'antisemitic organizing'. Tactics have included graffiti, online advocacy of violence, and the use of 'politically correct' language to make it sound as if people 'feel oppressed' by my alleged political opinions, and those of people I have associated with, as a result of my participation in the local “9/11 Truth” movement.  The campaign has now reached the point where the 'anti' fascists are trying to persuade customers to boycott Citybikes until they fire me.

Below:

1. My personal declaration
2. An example of an invitation to a 9/11 truth movement event
3. My letter to Citybikes, defending me and the co-op against Zionist/anti-fascist harassment

My personal declaration

I believe that the attacks against me by rose city antifa are not, in fact, related to my participation in the 9-11 group and the occasional speakers I have been associated with, but instead, due to my pro-Palestinian activism, and criticism of Israel. The vehemence and underhandedness with which this anonymous group attacks me looks very similar to the standard Hasbara (Israeli propagandist) smear of anyone critical of Israel. For example, as well as denouncing “right-wing conspiracy theorists” like Fritz Springmeier, the 'anti' fascists equally smear liberal pro-Palestinian writer Alison Weir as an 'antisemitic activist'. These smears exceed those of the influential Zionist organization the Anti-Defamation League, and show that defending us from fascism is not the real purpose of rose city antifa.

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Miles Davis Tentet - Lament - A Cappella Cover by JB Craipeau (incredible)

Jewish Domination? Occupation More Likely

By Gilad Atzmon 

The recent attack on Free Gaza’s Greta Berlin and Colonel Ann Wright suggests that we have crossed a red line -- Jewish domination within the Palestinian solidarity movement belongs to the past. We are now, it seems, under Zionist occupation, and we are subject to all the symptoms of Israeli abuse and Zionist brutality.

The expulsions,  the exclusions and the cleansings that are inherent within Zionism, Israeli and Jewish politics, are now alive and kicking within the Palestinian solidarity movement itself. On a daily basis we are notified about more and more people who ‘must be’ expelled from the ‘movement’: earlier this year we learned that the Palestinian poet and writer Nahida Izzat  had first been harassed and later expelled from her local Palestinian solidarity group by a Liverpool Jewish activists' gang. Next,  Dr Francis Clark Lowes, former Chairman of the UK PSC was expelled from the organisation, for allegedly being an ‘Anti Semite’ and a ‘holocaust denier’. Norman Finkelstein, probably the leading pro Palestinian Jewish scholar, has also been subjected to repeated smears and  attempts at character assassination for voicing some legitimate criticisms re BDS being a cult, and recently, the greatly admired Greta Berlin, co-founder of Free Gaza, has also been subjected to harassment and abuse in the last few weeks. Berlin was labeled 'an anti Semite' and 'a Holocaust Denier' -- and yet, up until the present time, there has not been a shred of  evidence provided by her detractors to support such accusations.  And now, the respected peace activist Colonel Ann Wright has also been 'purged', and expelled from the current attempt to break the siege on Gaza -- simply  for being associated with Mrs Berlin.  The pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim is also subject to a BDS  boycott. And six months ago I too, faced a call for a disavowal -- by people who were foolish enough to confess that they had not even read a single line of my work.

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Our Solidarity: Unity, and the Art of Keeping It Together

By Tariq Shadid

What better way to defeat an enemy than to cause a situation which has its ranks divided, and seeing its energy unleashed by one faction upon another, followed by tit-for-tat retributions, in an unending cycle of mutual destruction?

Watch those who support one common cause going at each other’s throats, and you will find yourself faced with a very difficult dilemma. What if you feel that both sides should settle their differences and return to mutual cooperation and respect? Whatever you say, will always be perceived as wrong and insufficient by either side. Neither side will settle for anything but a complete denunciation of the other, and both will only be satisfied if you express unambiguous support for their camp.

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And all that Jazz - Event Review by Merryn Johnson

http://www.frontlineclub.com/blogs/theforum/2012/10/and-all-that-jazz.html

“I’m very happy to face serious opposition: If I would say what I say and talk about Jewish political power without facing serious, relentless opposition, it would mean that I am talking nonsense... and apparently I’m not.” — Gilad Atzmon

Gilad Atzmon certainly does face serious opposition, but he also revels in it. “Struggle is fun,” he says. Gilad is a world famous jazz musician, but also a writer and political activist, to the point that as a whole he is a political artist. It is this artistic platform for political debate which attracted director Golriz Kolahi and producer David Alamouti to follow him in the making of Gilad & All That Jazz, screened at the Frontline Club on October 15. 

Gilad and all that Jazz [TRAILER] from David Alamouti on Vimeo.

This film looks back at Gilad’s childhood in Israel, when he was an enthusiastic Zionist, and follows his artistic development and political transformation, his self-imposed exile and his increasingly controversial and vocal stance on Jewish political identity.

The film captures the very large personality of Gilad – his humour, passion and energy – from his shocked realisation that Charlie Parker was black to his self-disgust at perceiving Nazi traits in his own Israeli army uniform.

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On BDS & Integrity..

And Then They Came For Me

First the Zionists came for the Palestinians, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Palestinian.

Then the Neocons came for the Muslims,and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Muslim.

Then Electronic Abunimah,  ADL, Mondoweiss,  Israeli Hasbara and J Street  came for the activists and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn't an activist.

Then they came for me, but they were too late, because by that time everyone had read The Wandering Who, grasped what was going on and stood up for me.

The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics, Jewish political interest and Jewish hegemony within the Palestinian Solidarity Movement...

The book can be  ordered  on Amazon.com  or Amazon.co.uk

The Madness Continues: Ann Wright Disinvited to Sail

Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: The adorable solidarity activist Ann Wright, former US Army Colonel and retired official of the U.S. State Department, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War and support of Palestinian rights, is now also subject to Palestinian solidarity internal war.

On her way to meet up with the Swedish Estelle, the next boat to challenge the Israeli blockade, Colonel Wright was called by a board member of the Estelle who ask her to abort the journey.  She was disinvited. The explanation was embarrassingly lame - Ann Wright is a member of the new Free Gaza Movement’s Board. She supports Greta Berlin.

It didn’t take me more than a few minutes to find out that the leader of the current attempt to sail to Gaza is Israeli Jewish activist named Dror Feiler.  Feiler is the chairman of the Jews-Only Swedish organization Jews For Israeli Palestinian Peace (JIPF) and the European Jews for Just Peace (EJJP). Once again it is the Jewish activist  who decides who should be on board in the Palestinian Solidarity movement. I can’t make up my mind whether this is funny or tragic. It is certainly very bad news.

Update:  Electronic Intifada's Benjamin Doherty congratulated the Estelle's crew and passengers for cleansing Ann Wright (via Twitter):

Benjamin Doherty ‏@bangpound
.@shiptogazase please transmit my respect to your crew and passengers for holding true to standards and principles. http://j.mp/RxtKkU

I guess that if you really want to grasp what is going on here, you will have to readThe Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics, Jewish political interest and  Jewish hegemony within the Palestinian Solidarity Movement...

The book can be  ordered  on Amazon.com  or Amazon.co.uk

Read Ann Wright's statement:

http://www.freegaza.org/

Ann Wright Disinvited to Sail

Statement by Ann Wright on the "Dis-Invitation" of her by the Swedish Boat to Gaza "Estelle" steering committee to be on the boat

Two days ago, on October 13, three hours before I was to board a flight to Europe to meet up with the Swedish boat to Gaza, the “Estelle,” the next boat to challenge the Israeli blockade, I was called by a board member of the Estelle who said that because of the furor around Greta Berlin’s posting and because I am a member of the new, 2 week old board of the Free Gaza Movement,  I was no longer invited to be a passenger on the “Estelle.”

The board representative acknowledged that the reason for their invitation to me to be on the “Estelle” was that I am a retired US Army Colonel and former US diplomat who resigned in March, 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war, that I am a vocal critic of Israeli and United States policies on Palestinians and that I have been to Gaza 4 times in the past 3 years, assisted 7 groups to go to Gaza in 2009, helped organize the December, 2009 Gaza Freedom March, was a passenger on the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla, helped organize the 2011 US Boat to Gaza and am an organizer for one of the latest initiatives, Gaza’s Ark.

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Congratulation Britain-at last we have a musical genius

His name is Jacob Collier.. and he is incredible!!!

Freedom of speech enters dark age: Gilad Atzmon on Press TV

http://presstv.com/

The concept of freedom of speech and tolerance enters a dark age as the Europe Union's executive body orders a ban on several Iranian channels, an author tells Press TV. European satellite provider Eutelsat SA says it has stopped the broadcast of several Iranian satellite channels following an order by the European Commission. The company ordered media services company, Arqiva, to take the Iranian satellite channels off one of its Hot Bird frequencies on Monday.

Press TV: Firstly, I wanted to get your reaction to this decision.

Atzmon: It obviously doesn’t take me by a big surprise. The old concept of ‘freedom of speech and tolerance’ is in a serious decay in Europe. In Britain, it already disappeared completely. We are living in a very dark age and it is now official.

Press TV: How does this all tie in with the fact that the European Union was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the various contradictions that that also brought up for the EU?

Atzmon: This is just there to prove how ridiculous is the Nobel Prize concept is. The whole concept of the Nobel Prize for peace has proven to be very misleading. But this is not the issue.

The issue is that we are living here and seeing our most elementary rights being jeopardized. Now, the West has prided itself with human rights for quite a few decades, and we’re obviously in a serious moment of regression on that front.

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