Congratulation: Lib Dem Friends of Palestine Made It To The Jewish Chronicle

Lib Dems say sorry over anti-Israel post

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/120292/lib-dems-say-sorry-over-anti-israel-post

By Marcus Dysch, July 3, 2014

The Liberal Democrat Party has apologised after its Friends of Palestine group again posted antisemitic material on Facebook.

The group linked to a piece by antisemitic Israeli musician Gilad Atzmon which claimed "the time is ripe to cleanse British public life of Zionists and Jerusalemites".

Mr Atzmon's article referred to Ed Miliband's speech to Labour Friends of Israel last month.

He wrote: "Ed Miliband affirms his deep Zionist affiliation… He would have been better suited for a position as a local rabbi or a part-time job as an Israeli consular."

It went on to suggest Mossad had arranged the kidnapping of the three Jewish teenagers in the West Bank.

A Lib Dem spokesperson said: "That article was not, and is not the view of the party in any way. It was clearly inappropriate and offensive. We're of course sorry if there was any offence caused."

The LDFoP group removed the link and also apologised.

Gavin Stollar, Lib Dem Friends of Israel chairman, said: "It demonstrates that they are on the fringes. They are not in the mainstream of the party."

The JC revealed in May that the Friends of Palestine group had repeatedly posted links to a site promoting Zionist conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial.

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Press Tv: On Israel's Genocidal Nature

http://www.presstv.ir/

Press TV has conducted an interview with Gilad Atzmon, a political commentator, from London, about the violent reaction by the Israeli PM and Israeli settlers to the confirmed deaths of three missing Israeli settlers.

http://youtu.be/nU6oQ_5abgg

The following is an approximate transcript of the interview.

Press TV: What is your reaction on how things have unfolded now after three weeks where we have the three settlers found dead and you have now a reaction coming – still not proven - but many deducting that extreme settlers were responsible for this?

An Israeli police spokesman has said that the main direction right now that Israeli police is looking at is whether the incident was criminal or nationalistic. 

Atzmon: Yes, I can imagine that this is what the Israelis would do when a Palestinian is murdered by Israelis, either military forces or just settlers.

They always try to find an outer motive that diverts attention from the murderous and genocidal and plunderous nature of the Jewish state.

I don’t like to talk about particularities - I think the situation on the ground is indeed grave – I like to understand how is it possible that the Jewish state that was supposed to launch a beautiful Jewish homecoming to celebrate the new Israelite and to solve the Jewish question managed only to move the Jewish question or the Jewish problem into a new place and this is a disaster.

I can’t decide whether I was amused or very sad to hear Richard (Richard Hellman, Press TV guest from Washington) a second ago trying to divert attention and make us look at Iraq and Syria. I think that the situation in Iraq and Syria is very grave, but we have to remember that just a year ago it was the Jewish lobby in America and Israel that pushed to send ammunition to support ISIS and all those very frightening organizations.

And I think that we have to start to take a broad look into this topic and to understand that Israel is the biggest threat to world peace and people like Richard and the Jewish lobby in America and Britain and France are actually very dangerous to their nation and to the people around them as well as the planet.        

Press TV: Your reaction to Richard Hellman’s description of Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East and as a benefit to the world, if only its neighbors would stop wanting to destroy it.

Atzmon: I think calling Israel a democracy is slightly pathetic. I’ve heard it many times. I want to remind your viewers that in the ‘Israeli democracy’ half of the people living within Israeli-controlled territories are living in open-air prisons – Gaza is an open air prison and it’s not a state, it’s still under Israeli control as we know; the West Bank is an open air prison and when Israel feels like it – like in the last week – it enters the West Bank, it killed, it arrested. It’s not a democracy, it’s a Jewish democracy and in practice it is a terrorist state.

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Summer 2014, UK, Japan and Germany

Dear friends, a bit of activity ahead. We are about to record a new OHE album. We are experimenting with some new material. You can listen to us this saturday at the 606 Jazz Club, London

July

3 With Norman Watt Roy, Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester

4 With The Blockheads,  Blackley Music Festival, Brackley

5 Gilad Atzmon & The OHE at the 606 Jazz Club, London

6  With The Blockheads, Haslemere Fringe Festival, Haslemere

12 Gilad Atzmon Oragn Trio  (Ross Stanley- Organ, Enzo Zirilli-Drums)  Adjani Grill, London

17 With Nick Hill, at  Hot Numbers Coffee,  Cambridge

19 With The Blockheads, Hampton Pool Summer Picnic Concerts, Hampton, Middlesex

20 Gilad Atzmon 4tet at The Oval Croydon, London

22-30 Japan Summer Tour

22 Osaka Concert with Eric Weigman, Namba, Jazz Spot 845, Osaka, Japan

23-24 Lectures in Sapporo, Japan

25 A talk and a concert (Hakon Storm Guitar, Eric Wiegmann dr)  at the Little Clover, Osaka, Japan

26-27  With Norman Watt Roy @ Fuji Rock, Japan

28 Gilad Atzmon Trio The Royal Horse, Osaka, Japan

29  The Power Cats (Asaf Sirkis, Ross Stanley & Gilad Atzmon) Yorozuyasobe,  Kobe

30 With Norman Watt Roy in Kyoto

31 With Shez Raja at The Hideaway, London

August

2 Gilad Atzmon & the OHE @ Passing Cloud, East London

7 Gilad Atzmon & the OHE featuring American Guitar Star Saul Rubin (Playing cureently with Sonny Rollins' band)  at the Pizza Express Jazz Club, London

8-15 The best Jazz workshop in Europe - Saarwellingen Music Workshop, Saarwellingen, Germany  (An integrated Workshop and a music festival)

25-26 Gilad with Strings, a tribute to Charlie Parker, Ronnie Scott’s,  London

Don't Miss: International Jazzworkshop: Concerts from 08 - 15 august 2014

Avoiding the J word: Ilan Pappe on Hardtalk

Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: In this BBC Hardtalk episode, Stephen Sackur challenges professor Ilan Pappe’s views.

As expected, BBC’s Sackur presents the hard core Right wing Zionist viewpoint. Unexpectedly, Sackur displays a wide range of knowledge about Israel and seems almost as knowledgeable as Ilan Pappe - a leading pro-Palestinian historian who has dedicated his life to studying the conflict and the Palestinian plight. How is that possible? Is it because Pappe lacks erudition?  Not at all, Pappe is an ethical human being and a superb scholar, he remains courteous and calm throughout the program. But Pappe attempts to argue his case with his hands tied behind his back. The history professor is afraid to utter the ‘J word,’ he fails to analyze Zionism and Israel’s actions within the appropriate ideological, historical and cultural context and he refuses to question the true meaning of the Jewish State.

History is an attempt to narrate the past. A few brave historians aim for a consistent narrative that sets events within the appropriate context which includes ideology, culture and heritage. Most historians however, are engaged in the opposite: the active concealment of the shameful i.e. that which is better to shove under the carpet. Instead of identifying the Zionist crime within the context of Jewish history and culture, Pappe attempts to isolate the Zionist crime by disconnecting it from Jewish history and continuum. Pappe injects the discourse with a dose of politically-correct terminology (such as colonialism, apartheid, etc.) that serves only to divert attention from the particular nature of Jewish nationalism.  In practice, Pappe actually attempts to conceal that which is most shameful – the Jewishness of the Jewish State.

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Gay Pride - "Bigger and Jewier Than Ever"

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New York's Gay Pride Weekend Bigger — and Jewier — Than Ever

Bill De Blasio Speaks at Shabbat To Kick Off Festivities

By Brian Schaefer

(Haaretz) — The most outrageous snapshots from any given Pride parade tend to be the most popular – six-foot drag queens (seven, if you count heels and hair,) chiseled go-go dancers in mini-Speedos, loads of glitter. It is an event that has come to be defined by party boys.

But ahead of New York Pride this weekend, many Jewish groups in the area are using the event to bring attention to political and social issues. They are doing so with the help of guests such as Bill De Blasio, the mayor of New York, and activists from Africa, which has been a region of particular concern in recent years as countries like Uganda and Nigeria pass sweeping anti-LGBT legislation.

De Blasio will deliver the keynote address on Friday night at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the world’s largest LGBT synagogue and a pioneering Jewish presence in the New York Pride Parade. De Blasio, who will be introduced by the actress and congregation member Cynthia Nixon, joins a long line of cultural and political leaders who have addressed the Jewish LGBT community on the eve of Pride. Past speakers include the playwright Tony Kushner and nearly every mayor, except Rudy Giuliani.

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Mark Curtis - On The Real Terrorists..

The Jew and the Other: Alain Soral & Gilad Atzmon in Lyon

Comment by Gilad Atzmon: This lecture appeared on the net 24 hours ago. In spite of its length and depth, it attracted 40.000 viewers in such a short time. The meaning of it is simple:

1. we are a mass movement 

2. the future of intellectual exchange is out of the Zionised academia that is suffocated with marginal 'studies' that detach humans from questions to do with Being & Time.

The future of humanity is where freedom is. 

The lecture was given on May 26th 2014

Pt 1, Talk starts around 6:40 min'

http://youtu.be/r0gyywFlXMs

Pt 2,

http://youtu.be/t3Xn4qgfjTg

The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity politics and Jewish Power in particular - available on Amazon.com  & Amazon.co.uk

Pro War Harry's Place Are Upset Again...

http://hurryupharry.org/2014/06/26/lib-dem-friends-of-palestine-promote-atzmon/

Lib Dem Friends of Palestine promote Atzmon

Even though Gilad Atzmon’s vile views have been widely condemned by anti-racists, including many pro-Palestinian activists, Lib Dem Friends of Palestine have promoted his racist attack on Ed Miliband’s speech to the LFI on their Facebook page.

As the Brits were expressing their disapproval of ‘Red Ed’ and his clumsy politics, the Labour leader found the time to socialise with the Jewish Lobby. The following is Ed Miliband’s speech to LFI (Labour Friends Of Israel), the same Zionist Lobby group that funded Blair’s government as it drove Britain into a criminal war in Iraq.

In his speech, Ed Miliband affirms his deep Zionist affiliation. The verdict on his reign is clear, Miliband should never have been the leader of a major British political party. He would have been better suited for a position as a local Rabbi or a part time job as an Israeli consular.

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Abe'le Stop Watching Porn

We’ve to thank Abe’le Foxman for bringing to light truth tellers like Gary Oldman and others. The ADL should know by now that, out of the ghetto, no one buys Playboy let alone reads it. The rest of humanity prefer  'online' services...

Dead Sea Israelis Making Business (Taking Advantage)

Over two weekends, an 82-year-old woman was bullied into buying $5000 worth of cosmetics – mostly wrinkle cream for a range of different skin types.

On the first occasion, young Israelis salesmen kept the woman at the booth after the mall had closed, making three separate sales totalling more than $3000, taking partial EFTPOS payments, and then accompanying her to ATMs around the mall to pay the balance in cash.

On the second occasion the elderly woman was sold more cosmetics in two separate $999 sales, emptying her bank account.

Ms T, who doesn't want to reveal her identity, says she is embarrassed.

"I feel as if I'm a silly old chook," says Ms T. "Honestly, at my age spending all that money on that product is ridiculous."

Read more and watch the video: http://www.3news.co.nz/Elderly-woman-falls-victim-to-Dead-Sea-pressure-tactics/tabid/817/articleID/350166/Default.aspx#ixzz35kpCplmk