Gilad Atzmon's Blog, page 15
January 14, 2015
Charlie's Daily Victims - Dieudonne, MP David Ward, BBC Tim Willcox
A daily report from the battle for elementary freedom
1. French comedian star Dieudonne arrested
French most popular comedian Dieudonne has been arrested for ‘allegedly defending terrorism’ in a Facebook comment referencing last week's attacks in Paris.
Playing on the slogan "Je suis Charlie", the Dieudonne wrote: "Tonight, as far as I'm concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly."
2. British MP David Ward panned for saying Netanyahu in Paris made him sick
Israel’s ambassador to London called Sunday for British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to discipline a member of parliament who declared it made him feel ill to see Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend the mass demonstration of unity against terrorism that was held in Paris at the beginning of the week.
3. The UK Zionist lobby AKA The Lobby is now mounting pressure on the BBC in reference to Tim Willcox daring to do his job.
Je ne Suis Pas Charlie!
by Kim Petersen
It is reported that a million people marched the streets of Paris today shouting “Liberté” and “Charlie”?1
Charlie who? Charlie Hebdo? Why would I want to align myself with cartoonists who show intolerance/prejudice to other cultures and religions?
I distance myself from adherence to ancient texts such as the Koran, Bible, and Torah. Nonetheless, a plurality of humanity subscribes to the word in these texts – but in differing degrees. Muslims are not a monolith. There are sections of Muslims who are extremist in outlook and practice. However, the same holds true for Christians (witness the Crusades of past and present), Hindus (witness the toppling of the Babri Masjid by Hindu fanatics in India), Buddhists (witness the massacres of Tamils in Sri Lanka), and Jews (witness the genocidal massacres of Palestinians). I have lived with and among Muslims. I lived two years in Jordan and found them to be, in general, most welcoming and kind. I just returned from 4 months in Egypt, where aside from taxi drivers who cheat the outsiders, the people were, by-and-large, very tolerant. I reject taking the brush of extremism2 and painting an entire swath of humanity with that same brush.
I also reject the killing of people to make a political/religious statement.
I am Free Expression/Speech. But Charlie Hebdo was not about either free expression or speech. It fired a cartoonist for alleged anti-Semitism, and was fined by the French High Court for doing so.3 For Charlie Hebdo, in other words, Islamophobia is okay, but Judeophobia is not okay. This is by definition hypocrisy. Je n’aime pas l’hypocrisie.
France is not about free expression/speech. One is not free to challenge the Jewish Holocaust narrative in France. Literature professor Robert Faurisson was excoriated by the French establishment for his views challenging the Jewish Holocaust narrative, and professor Noam Chomsky became unpopular for his advocacy for free speech in the case of Faurisson. Chomsky held, “… it has been a truism for years, indeed centuries, that it is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.”4
If Charlie Hebdo is not about freedom of expression and/or speech, and if the French state is not about such, then what does it actually mean to say “Je suis Charlie“?
It is easy enough for anarchists and other progressives to state what they are. Most would say I am Free Expression/Speech. I am Tolerance. I am Peace. Charlie Hebdo and the French state are not about free expression and speech;5 they are not about tolerance (France, for example, does not tolerate the Muslim sartorial of the hijab having outlawed it). Neither are they about peace. If one pokes a stick into a hornet’s nest, could one believably claim to have peaceful intentions toward hornets? (With all due respect, the analogy is presented only as an argument to refute peaceful intentions on part of Charlie Hebdo and not to compare Muslims to hornets). France’s colonialism and its ensanguined militaristic forays into Muslim nations such as Iraq, Mali, Libya, Syria adduce its violent ontology.
It behooves people of conscience to oppose what is anathema, but it is also incumbent upon people of conscience to ally themselves with what is right and principled. Charlie Hebdo is not something I wish to stand in solidarity with.6
See “France attacks: Million-strong unity rally in Paris,” BBC, 11 January 2015. [↩]Although a strong measure of skepticism should greet the monopoly media narrative that extremists are behind the recent killings in Paris. Thinking people should ask Cui bono? [↩]See “‘Charlie Hebdo’ condamné pour le licenciement abusif du dessinateur Siné,” Le Monde, 10 December 2009. [↩]Noam Chomsky, “Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression,” Appeared as a Preface to Robert Faurisson, Mémoire en défense, 11 October 1980. [↩]I grant that certain curtailments on expression and speech do and must exist in society [↩]DV Senior editor Angie Tibbs: Je suis d’accord! [↩]What Jews can learn from Muslims...
Introduction by GA: The following is a letter to the the Guardian written by Deborah Maccoby-
Executive, Jews for Justice for Palestinians. The text is a window into the Jewish Left confusion on issues of Israel, Zionism and Palestine. On the one hand, Maccoby admits that "most Jewish communal associations around the world" support "Israel’s massacre last summer of over 1,400 civilians, including over 500 children, in Gaza." But on the other hand Maccoby says, "if world Jewish organisations were to learn from their Muslim counterparts and say loud and clear in response to Israeli atrocities “not in my name”, this could help to reduce antisemitism..." in short, the Jewish 'justice' enthusiast advises Jewish leaders to lie, to pretend, to say 'not in my name,' while knowing and believing that Israel is the Jewish state and Zionism has become the voice of world Jewry for some time.
What Jews can learn from Muslims - The Guardian, January 12/15
by Deborah Maccoby
Jonathan Freedland (First they came for the cartoonists, then they came for the Jews, 10 January), claims that Jews are targeted simply as “a kind of ultimate symbol of the west”, as a result of “a curious kink in the ultra-Islamist mindset”, or as the traditional scapegoat of European fascists.
But the Israeli government, with its new bill proposing to make Israel the nation-state of all the Jews in the world, and Jewish organisations such as the Board of Deputies, with their claim that the majority of Jews support Israel’s oppressive policies, contribute to the conflation of Jews with Israel and the subsequent rise in antisemitism and attacks on Jews.
To point this out is not of course to justify the conflation of Jews with Israel, just as it is wrong and unjustifiable to identify jihadis with Muslims. But the recent massacre in France of 17 people was purportedly carried out in the name of Islam; and the swift and powerful condemnation issued by Muslim groups all over the world will help to reduce anti-Muslim feeling and deter young Muslims from joining the jihadis.
This condemnation by Muslims contrasts strongly with the support given by most Jewish communal associations around the world to Israel’s massacre last summer of over 1,400 civilians, including over 500 children, in Gaza.
If world Jewish organisations were to learn from their Muslim counterparts and say loud and clear in response to Israeli atrocities “not in my name”, this could help to reduce antisemitism and make the recruitment of young Muslims by jihadis more difficult. Despite Freedland’s claim that Jews have “no control” over Israeli policies, such condemnation could also exert strong pressure on the Israeli government to stop its atrocities and enter into genuine peace negotiations with the Palestinian unity government.
Deborah Maccoby
Executive, Jews for Justice for Palestinians
January 13, 2015
Nick Clegg To The Primacy Of Jewish Suffering
The JC reports:
Nick Clegg promises to protect Holocaust education funding
Holocaust education funding will be protected for the next five years if the Liberal Democrats return to government after the election, Nick Clegg has promised.
The Deputy Prime Minister said the £9 million budget for the Holocaust Education Trust’s Lessons from Auschwitz programme would continue to 2020.
He is the first party leader to make the pledge. Mr Clegg said the project was the “cornerstone” of Shoah education in Britain.
January 12, 2015
United Against BBC's Tim Willcox.
With classical Old Testament vindictiveness, the UK Zionist lobby AKA The Lobby is now humiliating BBC's Tim Willcox for daring to do his job.
Willcox has offered an apology, yet The Lobby remains unappeased. "BBC reporter Tim Willcox left campaigners against anti-Semitism unmoved with an apology," writes the horridly aggressive Jewish Algemeiner.
“Tim Willcox is right to have apologized for the question, but the thinking behind it was just as problematic as the way he phrased it,” added Dave Rich, Deputy Director of the Jewish Community Security Trust.
One would expect that the 'I am Charlie' call would translate into a universal demand for a greater freedom to express but, at least as far as The Lobby is concerned, all we see is an relentless demand to reduce our Western universe into a Rabbinical ghetto dominated by fear and abuse.
Enough is enough...
Dieudonné replies to Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve:
Yesterday we all were Charlie. We all walked and stood up for freedoms to be allowed to laugh at everything.
All the Government’s officials – you included – were walking together in the same direction.
Yet, when I came back home I felt all alone.
The Government has been targeting me for a year now and is still looking to eliminate me by any means: media lynching, ban on my performance shows, tax audits, bailiff raids, searches, indictments… More than eighty judicial procedures have struck down on my kinfolk and me.
And the Government keeps on ruining my life. Eighty judicial procedures.
Since the beginning of last year, I have been treated as public enemy number one, when all I try to do is make people laugh, and laugh about death, because death laughs at us all, as Charlie knows now, unfortunately.
Even though I offered peace under your authority in the past weeks, I did not get any answer from you yet.
Whenever I express myself some people will not even try to understand me, they will not listen. They try to find some kind of pretext to suppress me. I am looked upon as if I were Amedy Coulibaly, when I am no different from Charlie.
It seems like you do not care about my words, unless you can distort them and use them to fill yourself with indignation.
Dear Minister, since it looks like I have finally earned some listening from your part, I wish to remind you one thing:
I offer peace.
Dieudonné M’bala M’bala
Calls for BBC Reporter To Resign For Telling The Truth.
The Daily Mail reports:
Calls for BBC reporter to resign after he told daughter of Holocaust survivors in Paris: 'Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well.'
Tim Willcox was covering yesterday's Paris rally for the BBC News channelHe spoke to participants during a live broadcast from the streets of ParisOne woman he spoke to expressed fears Jews were being persecutedShe told him 'the situation is going back to the days of the 1930s'Willcox replied: 'Many critics though of Israel's policy would suggest that the Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well'Comments sparked anger and calls for him to resignWillcox has apologised for offence caused by 'poorly phrased question'
Spitting On Other People’s Prophets Is Not A Western Value
By Gilad Atzmon
In a BBC interview following the Charlie Hebdo Massacre, Jewish Chronicle writer David Aaronovitch advised those who do not approve of ‘freedom of speech’ to ‘move to Pakistan.’ It is not surprising to find a Zionist Jew advocating voluntary cleansing; after all, expulsion is a Jewish nationalist favourite adventure. Judging by Aaronovitch’s endorsement of elementary liberty, I am happy to announce that the appeal for freedom of expression is the immediate and very positive outcome of the disastrous events in Paris.
But I am not convinced that those protesters who call themselves ‘Charlie’ are genuinely advocating the notion of universal freedom. Are they willing to accept Muslim clerics exploring that freedom? And what about Dieudonne challenging the Holocaust religion? And if Israel defines itself as ‘the Jewish State,’ can we, once and for all, put Jewishness under scrutiny? Does Aaronivitch, himself an arch Neocon Zionist and prime advocate of the Iraq War, willing to accept that some may consider the Holocaust an historical chapter, not a religion? This would be a revolutionary shift because Aaronovitch has gone out of his way to silence any discussion of historical revisionism, Jewishness or the powerful Jewish lobby.
Freedom of Speech and the West
The first question is whether Freedom of Speech is a universal western value. The answer is, of course, in the affirmative. Freedom of Speech is embedded in Athenian thought. The idea is well illustrated by Greek orator Demosthenes who states that in ‘Athens one is free to praise the Spartan constitution, whereas in Sparta it is only the Spartan constitution that one is allowed to praise.’ Unlike Athens that stands for pluralism, ethics and a relentless search for the truth: Jerusalem represents the suppression of freedom and a dismissal of ethical and universal thinking. Jerusalem is guided by ‘commandments’ and legalism. The ‘legal’ replaces the ethical mode by setting boundaries to speech.
Such a reading may help us to grasp the role of political correctness within the wider notion of freedom of expression: if freedom was born in Athens, the tyranny of correctness has been imported from Jerusalem and it is, by far, the bitterest enemy of Athens, of freedom and the West.
Political correctness should be understood as a political view that doesn’t allow political opposition. Bizarrely enough, the same definition could be applied to dictatorship. Yet, in reality, political correctness is far more repressive than dictatorship. While dictatorship entails a form of negation between a subject and an authority, political correctness is driven by self-suppression. It is a vicious instrument that defeats authenticity. It teaches you to ‘think before you say,’ instead of simply ‘saying what you think.’
If freedom of speech is an Athenians cultural asset, then correctness is the Guardian; it is a crude attempt to set the boundaries of integrity, ethics and the human experience in general.
Spitting On Crosses, Spitting On Churches and Spitting in General.
Charlie Hebdo, as we are learning, wasn’t a publication that specialized in free speech. It was a neocon, philo-Semitic magazine that supported Zionist wars, and was dedicated to otherize minorities and Muslims in particular, while at the same time silencing criticism of Jewish power and the American war machine. Charlie Hebdo went about acting as the Israeli cultural attaché in Paris. At least ideologically, it was the French ‘Guardian of Judea.’ But unlike its ideological sister across the channel, the former was uniquely tasteless and extreme, apparently on a suicidal scale.
Supporters of ‘Charlie’ such as Aaronovitch may rightly argue that if Freedom is a Western value, then spiting on other people’s prophets should also be considered a Western adventure. After all, freedom of speech is the liberty to express whatever crosses your mind.
Aaronivitch and the Charlies are wrong on this point. While tolerance and loving one’s neighbor are embedded within the Western Christian ethos, spitting on the cross, spitting on churches and spitting in general are not necessarily Western values. They are, once again, a product of Jerusalem.
In 2009, The Jerusalem Post published an exposé of the growing tendency of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem to spit on their Christian neighbours. (‘Mouths Filled with Hatred’, By Larry Derfner The JPost, Nov. 26, 2009). Israel Shahak also commented on Jewish hatred of Christianity and its symbols, suggesting, “Dishonouring Christian religious symbols is an old religious duty in Judaism.” According to Shahak, “spitting on the cross, and especially on the Crucifix, and spitting when a Jew passes a church, have been obligatory from around AD 200 for pious Jews.”
Interestingly, Jewish spitting has had an impact on the urban landscape of Europe. The following can be read in a ‘Travel Guide for Jewish Europe.’
“In Prague’s Charles Bridge, the visitor will observe a great crucifix surrounded by huge gilded Hebrew letters that spell the traditional Hebrew sanctification Kadosh Kadosh Kadosh Adonai Tzvaot, “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts.” According to various commentators, this piece, degrading to Jews, came about because in 1609 a Jew was accused of desecrating the crucifix. The Jewish community was forced to pay for putting up the Hebrew words in gold letters. Another explanation is that a Jew spat at the cross and for this he was to be put to death as a punishment. When this man begged for his life, the king, seeking to have good relations with the Jews, said the Jewish community had to rectify the offence….” (To read more: Travel Guide for Jewish Europe, pg 497)
In fact, physical spitting is not the problem here. Spiting is just a symptom of a deeply imbued cultural categorical dismissal of ‘otherness.’ Tragically, the same can be said about Charlie Hebdo. A quick glance at the magazine covers reveals a disgraceful disregard and disrespect to otherness, minorities and Muslims in particular. Charlie Hebdo is a symptom of the Jerusalemisation of the French liberal and the new left.
Though the first reaction to the massacre in Paris was a worldwide editorial vow to republish Hebdo’s cartoons, it took less than 36 hours for Western editorial writers to change their minds; in fact hardly anyone published this Zionist dirt. Though some editorials argued that such publication would put their personnel at risk, it is more likely that no one actually saw Hebdo’s cartoon fit for publication. And this is exactly the Athenian answer to Jerusalem. It is our ethical judgment that prevents us from spitting on other people and their prophets. It is ethical judgment that sustains Western tolerance as opposed to political correctness that creates the illusion of tolerance yet kills the ability to tolerate.
Joe Sacco, The Guardian Of Athens
Guardian cartoonist Joe Sacco expresses this form of moral awakening very well. As opposed to the Jerusalemite Aaronovitch, the Athenian Sacco ends his post-Charlie Hebdo massacre comic strip with a desperate call for reconciliation. Let us at least try to fit into each other’s world, Sacco suggests.
The Charlie Hebdo massacre is a devastating alert to all of us. The choice between Athens and Jerusalem is long overdue. The choice is between the universalism of Sacco and the banal tribal exclusivism of Charlie David Hebdo Aaronovitch.
Instead of preaching to us about Western values and freedom it is about time the Aaronivitches and the Charlies understand the true meaning of the ‘Western ideal’ and its cultural foundations. Christian tolerance fuelled by Athenian polytheist universal pluralism is the heart of western thought. Western ideal is the love of beauty, the polis, the civil, the ethical, harmony; it is the rejection of zealotry and the Judeo-centric binarism. Instead of spitting on other prophets we have to learn to cherish other’s Gods, even the Jewish one, and to expect others to do the same.
January 11, 2015
January 10, 2015
Suspected Sex Offender Alan Dershowitz on France and Terrorism
Is this man really an Harvard professor?
I am so glad Paris saga is over, we can once again deal with Epstein/Dershowitz sex scandal...
And here is a light question to Alan Dershowitz, is Jeffrey Epstein a terrorist? He terrorized young girls, made them into sex slaves. And what about you Alan, if it happens to be true that you are also a sex offender, should we treat you as a terrorist?
