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.
2014 National Summit - Reassessing US Israel special relationship (must watch)
One speaker put it this way: "The 'Special Relationship' isn't working! We want it instead to be a "normal" relationship between the U.S. and Israel. We believe that will serve better the "national interests of both countries."
On the agenda as speakers were individuals from the Defense and Law enforcement communities; the Non-Profits and the Public Policy field; former members of the U.S. Congress, to wit: Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) and Rep. Paul Findley (R-IL); along with a host of distinguished authors, law professors, journalists and ex-intelligence officials, from both the military and the civilian side.
A former CIA official, Ray McGovern, raised this issue in his remarks, "Does Israel act like a U.S. ally? In the 1980s, he used to prepare the "President's Daily Brief."
One of the speakers that brought the capacity audience to its feet with a standing ovation was Ernie A. Gallo. He's an author and the President of the "USS Liberty Veterans Association." He was a survivor of the Israeli attack on the "USS Liberty." Gallo's 2013 book is titled: "Liberty Injustices: A Survivor Account of American Bigotry."
Making Jazz Visual
I am in love with the work of Merlin Porter. This young artist attends my concert occasionally with a paper block and a set of brushes. Merlin really manages to capture the spirit of music. Bless him..
You can contact Merlin via face book: https://m.facebook.com/MerlinPorterArts
You can buy his art and support this emerging natural talent
These images were taken two days ago at a concert at Albion Beatnik Bookstore , Oxford (my faforite British book shop)
Luis D'Agostino - guitar
Yaron Stavi - bass
Gilad Atzmon - sax and Clarinet
When PC Is Gone, Truth Prevails And Shoa Panic Is Detected
By Gilad Atzmon
Below is a six minute segment from a Q&A session at the Washington Report's AIPAC Conference of March 2014. It begins the moment the Holocaust narrative is challenged and the panic on the stage becomes palpable.
In the clip, an anonymous but well-informed member of the audience asks the panel to address the question of the dominance of the Holocaust in American life. Rightly, she points out that the Holocaust is a state-imposed religious dogma and as such ‘violates constitutional rights’. However, it takes only a few minutes to see that as far as Justin Raimondo & Philip Weiss are concerned, all that really matters is the Jews and their suffering.
Jewish Voice for Whatever icon, Philip Weiss doesn’t think that we should ‘problematize the education of the Holocaust'. "a wonderful book!", he says of the Diary of Anne Frank. Well, I’d like to hear from Weiss or anyone else something about the literary qualities of this diary - because I've found none.
Meanwhile, ‘anti-war’ hero Justin Raimondo apparently doesn’t agree that the Holocaust, like other historical narrative, should allow a ‘range of opinion’.
The meaning of all this is all too simple: For America to liberate itself, it may first have to emancipate itself from its current tribal icons of dissent. For America to be once again the land of the Free, it must leave Jerusalem behind and find the true Athens in its heart.
The clip above is a short segment taken at the National Summit To Reassess The U.S.-Israel Special Relationship at the National Press Club Washington DC, March 7, 2014.
One can learn more about this very important and timely meeting at www.NatSummit.org. You can watch the whole summit at:
http:/www.c-span.org/video/?318179-1/reassessing-usisrael-relations
Laura And Berlin - The OHE @ The Pizza Express
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Carl Freeman wrote:
Apologies for the poor (shaky hand-held mobile phone in poor light) quality of this video, but having enjoyed a sublime performance by Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble at the Pizza Express Jazz Bar in Soho on Thursday 6th March 2014 and realising that the set was about to end, I decided to try and capture some of the magic. The set included all the numbers from the magnificent "Songs of the Metropolis" album (which includes Berlin which is reprised at the end of this clip) and this sweet version of Laura. This is not on the album, but a version of it can be found (with haunting vocals by Robert Wyatt) on the album, "For the Ghosts Within", a musical collaboration between Gilad Atzmon, Robert Wyatt and Ros Stephen.
Giant Steps & The Burning Bush - Gilad Atzmon and The OHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orIqjGTq7Z4
@ The Pizza Express Jazz Club 6/3/14
We had 3 incredible nights at the London club. Seemingly, a few phon- camera videos started to appear on the net...I am very pleased with the sound and the energy of my 4tet...
On The Manner In Which Jewish intelligentsia destroyed the Working Class (by mistake)
This is my most important talk to date.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDcoGoB71yM#t10m34s
The new Left, The Frankfurt School, ID politics, the collapse of Working Class politics, the end of production and the meltdown of dissent. An expose of the manner in which Jewish intelligentsia destroyed the Working Class (by mistake)...
The talk was given at Brave New Books, Austin, Texas, 23 Feb 2014
Videoed by Floyd Anderson.
Paul Eisen speaks with Gilad Atzmon
Paul Eisen speaks with Gilad Atzmon from Tali Atzmon on Vimeo.
An insightful conversation between Gilad Atzmon and Paul Eisen. It takes a deep look into their minds and the troublesome relationship they hold with 'Jewish identity politics', 'Jewish ideology','Jewish power' and Jewish history alongside their prolonged intellectual and political activism.
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.
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.