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January 30, 2013
Holocaust Day Backfires
By Gilad Atzmon
The UK Jewish Lobby is in a state of panic - the Holocaust Memorial Day boomerangs. If anything it turns the floodlight on the deeply problematic inclinations that are sadly inherent to Jewish political culture and collectivism.
Last weekend it became clear that in the light of the crimes that are committed by the Jewish State in the name of the Jewish People, many Brits find it somehow difficult to genuinely empathise with Jewish suffering. If anything, it is the other way around, more and more people expect the Jews and their State to become more empathic.
The day before Holocaust Memorial Day, MP David Ward expressed his dismay with the lack of Jewish empathy. He wrote on his blog:
“I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza.”
MP Ward had to issue an immediate apology following some relentless pressure mounted by the ‘ non existent’ Jewish Lobby. In short, MP Ward and the British public were also privileged to examine the ‘imaginary’ Lobby performing one of its power pirouettes, bringing an elected British politician on his knees.
January 29, 2013
Lynda Burstein Brayer: The Gift of the Other – Why I Do Not Want to Leave Palestine/Israel
It is not by accident that I have been asked on several occasions, and not least by members of my own family, why I remain in the Jewish state of Israel. I am an implacable anti-Zionist and have left the Jewish religion formally, becoming a possible "meshumedet" or “one who is obliterated” according to Judaism! The question also arises because I was not born in Palestine or in the Jewish state of Israel but came to Israel on aliyah according to the Israeli Law of Return, legislated in 1950. I thereby fulfilled the Zionist dream of returning to the moledet or “land of my birth" [sic], a place I had never been prior to my "homecoming" at age 19! On the contrary, I had come into this world in 1945 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Recognizing, therefore, that I have no rights in Palestine, and being of the opinion that the Jewish State of Israel is an illegitimate creation of the Western powers, sprung, as it were, from their colonialist loins, the question of why I stay is not out of place. It is clear that given my political understanding I cannot support a two-state solution because that automatically presupposes a Jewish state alongside a Palestinian state. This political solution, so–called, has become a meaningless mantra, because the possibility of its realization has already been pre-empted by the transfer of hundreds of thousands of Jewish citizens into that part of Palestine conquered in 1967, the uprooting of whom will require a full-scale war. The one-state solution seems to offer a more reasonable program, as long as it is fully democratic and takes into consideration the Palestinian refugee problem as well as the question of reparations to Palestinians. However, given the present capitalist and Zionist dispensation, such a solution seems more like pie in the sky!
A new Pro Paelstinian Website for Free Gaza Scotland
http://freegazascotland.wordpress.com/
Mahmoud Sarsak – Palestinian International Footballer
On Wednesday 23rd of January I with other members of our group had the pleasure and honour to meet Mahmoud Sarsak in our appartment. He is a slight, quietly spoken young man, with a gentle manner and his good humour and patience with our questioning betray none of the pain he has suffered over the last 3 and a half years. When he begins to speak about his experience of imprisonment he tells his story with a matter of fact, quiet sincerity that is striking and makes the horror of his experience all the more shocking.
Mahmoud was 21 years old, at the start of a playing career which had already seen him being recognised as one of the best young prospects in Palestine, already a regular for the Palestinian National side. He had an invitation to play for a football team in Nablus in the West Bank. This meant that he had to ask for permission from the Israelis to cross from Gaza through Erez crossing into Israel in order to travel on to the West Bank. This did not worry him as it was a trip he had already done twice before and when he recieved his permission he went to the crossing looking forward to the opportunity of playing in Nablus. However when he got to Erez at 9am on the 22nd July 2009 his whole world changed, instead of being allowed to cross he was arrested and taken to a Police Station, from here his family were called and informed that he was being taken to Ashkelon Jail.
To read more: http://freegazascotland.wordpress.com/
Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, London - Album Launch (5 concerts residency)
Dear friends,
Songs Of The Metropolis may as well be our most successful album to date. The concerts are selling out quickly and the press is raving about the album.
We will launch the album at the London Pizza Express Jazz Club in February 21–23
For booking 020 7437 9595
Thu-21-Feb - Show Time 8:30pm, £15 , to book (this show is now selling out)
Fri-22-Feb - Show Time 7:30, Doors Open 6:00pm £15, to book.
Fri-22-Feb - Show Time 10:30pm, Doors Open 10:00pm, £15 to book.
Sat-23-Feb - Show Time 7:30pm, Doors Open 6:00pm, £15, to book.
Sat-23-Feb -
Show Time 10:30pm, Doors Open 10:00pm, £15, to book.
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Tour Dates (Europe, Japan, South America, Palestine)
January
31 with Graham York's trio @ The Blue Vanguard, Exeter *
February
1 Fleece Jazz, Suffolk / www.dovbear.co.uk/fleece / 01787 211865
2 The 606 Club, London / www.606club.co.uk / 020 7352 5953
5 Brook Theatre, Chatham / http://tickets.medway.gov.uk/ 01634 338338
8 St Mary's Church, Wivenhoe / www.wivenhoeevents.blogspot.co.uk / 07957 958724
9 Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth / www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk / 01970 623232
10 The Swan Hotel, Abergavenny (lunch time) / http://bmjazz.tumblr.com/
10 Chapel Arts, Bath (evening) / www.chapelarts.org / 01225 461700
14 The Boat House, Broxbourne / www.broxbournerowingclub.org/jazz / 01992 442263
15 The Verdict, Brighton / www.verdictjazz.co.uk / 01273 674847
17 Book Launch - American Colony Hotel, East Jerusalem, Palestine
20 Old Brown Jug, Newcastle Under Lyme / www.oldbrownjug.com / 01782 711393
21–23 Album Launch Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, London / www.pizzaexpresslive.com / 020 7437 9595
24 Jagz, Ascot / www.jagz.co.uk / 01344 878100
26 With Terry Collie's trio Retro Bistrot Restaurant. Teddington, London, TW11
27 Y Theatre, Leicester / www.leicesterjazzhouse.co.uk / 0116 255 7066
28 With The Power Cats South Holland Arts Centre, Spalding / www.southhollandcentre.co.uk *
March
1. With Jon Thorne's Trio, Isle of White / www.jonthorne.co.uk *
2 Posk Jazz Cafe, London / www.jazzcafeposk.co.uk / 0208 7411940
5 The Stables, Milton Keynes / www.stables.org / 01908 280800
7 Bonington Theatre, Arnold, Nottingham / www.jazzsteps.co.uk / 0115 8770284
8 Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle on Tyne www.starandshadow.org.uk
10–12 Town Hall, Shetland Island (+master classes)
13 Jazz Bar, Edinburgh / www.thejazzbar.co.uk / 0131 220 4298
14 Band on the Wall, Manchester / www.bandonthewall.org / 0161 830 3884
15 The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Cumbria / www.breweryarts.co.uk / 01539 725 133
17 Herts Jazz, Welwyn Garden City / www.hertsjazz.co.uk / 01707 357117
29 Comodo Jazz Bar, Osaka, Japan*
30 The 606 Club, London / www.606club.co.uk / 020 7352 5953
April
1-14 - Argentina and south America music and literature tour, details to follow
3 With Luis D'Agostino Trio, Notorious, Buenos Aires
6 with Juampy Juarez Trio Jazz & Pop, Buenos Aires
9 With Luis D'Agostino Trio,; Jazzología, Buenos Aires (TBC)
11With Luis D'Agostino Trio Thelonious, Buenos Aires
16-29 European Album Launch tour Germany, Austria, France, Luxemburg, Switzerland, details to be followed
May
1-12 Italy, details to be followed
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January 27, 2013
Once again the PSC expels Palestinians
Read the following email from Smmi Ibraem:
Dear Gilad
Yesterday, 26th of January, I attended the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign AGM in London. On entry, I was asked if I was a member and I replied that I wasn’t, but that I was a Palestinian journalist and would like to attend the meeting as an observer. I was given a package and a yellow badge.
However, a few hours later, during the lunch break, while standing in a queue in the cafeteria, I was approached by PSC Vice-Chair Kamel Hawash who again asked if I was a member. I confirmed that I wasn’t, but that I had been granted observer status. Hawash replied that I wasn’t supposed to be there and that I must leave.
I am left perplexed. How can an organisation that claims to lobby on behalf of the Palestinians expel a Palestinian from its annual gathering? I am afraid that, yet again, we are furnished with clear proof that the PSC is now under full Zionist control and that this group is serves now just as a mouthpiece for the British establishment and the Zionist lobby.
Thank God For Holocaust Memorial Day
So the Goyim can learn first hand about the vile impact of Jewish Power.
[image error]So the Goyim grasp once and for all that their democratically elected politicians better keep their thoughts to themselves.
So the Goyim accept once and for all the primacy of Jewish suffering.
So the Goyim can turn a blind eye to all those Shoa inflicted by the Jewish State, Stalin’s Jews and Ziocons.
So we remember never to forget to ask the most crucial and appropriate questions:
1. why is Jewish history an endless chain of Holocausts?
2. Can the Jews liberate themselves and the rest of us of their past?
Thanks God For Holocaust Memorial Day
So the Goyim can learn first hand about the vile impact of Jewish Power.
[image error]So the Goyim grasp once and for all that their democratically elected politicians better keep their thoughts to themselves.
So the Goyim accept once and for all the primacy of Jewish suffering.
So the Goyim can turn a blind eye to all those Shoa inflicted by the Jewish State, Stalin’s Jews and Ziocons.
So we remember never to forget to ask the most crucial and appropriate questions:
1. why is Jewish history an endless chain of Holocausts?
2. Can the Jews liberate themselves and the rest of us of their past?
January 26, 2013
January 25, 2013
Lib Dem MP David Ward Told the Truth
Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, Liberal Democrats David Ward, MP for Bradford East made a comparison on his website. He equated the Shoa with the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. But in Britain 2013, we are not supposed to think freely, we are advised not to follow our ethical intuitions or even to think historically or critically. The Liberal Democrats already "condemned" Ward for his "use of language."
Here is what Ward wrote:
Having visited Auschwitz twice – once with my family and once with local schools – I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza.
