Gilad Atzmon's Blog, page 43
July 2, 2014
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
July 1, 2014
Avoiding the J word: Ilan Pappe on Hardtalk
[image error]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.
June 30, 2014
Gay Pride - "Bigger and Jewier Than Ever"
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.
June 28, 2014
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 almost 30,000 viewers in such a short time. The meaning of it is simple - 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 intellectual spirit is where freedom is.
The lecture was given on May 26th 2014
Pt 1, Talk starts around 7:00 min'
Pt 2,
June 26, 2014
Pro War Harry's Place Are Upset Again...
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.
[image error]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
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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
Secret Soviet Reveals: Wiezmann Outlined the Nakba as Early as 1941
Forthcoming in G. Gorodetsky (ed.), A Red Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s: The Diaries of Ivan Maisky, 1932-43.
Introduction by Gilad Atzmon
The following is a unique historical document. It is an extract from The Diaries of Ivan Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador to Britain from 1932 to 1943. As far as I am aware this is the debut online appearance of this invaluable document.
Ivan Maisky (second from left), the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943, with Winston Churchill at the Allied ambassadors’ lunch at the Soviet embassy, September 1941. General Władysław Sikorski, prime minister of the Polish government in exile, is second from right.
Maisky, a former Menshevik of Jewish origin, kept a highly personal diary. He recorded conversations with five British prime ministers, as well as with many other prominent British politicians.
In this extract, written on 3 February 1941, Maisky recounts his brief meeting with the Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, later the first president of Israel. Maisky provides crucial insights into the history of Zionism including the brutality of the Jewish plan for Palestine and the Middle East. Noticeably, the document reveals that an intention to expel the Palestinians was explored by Zionist leaders as early as 1941.
...Those who believe that the racially driven expulsion of the Palestinians from their land in 1948 was the result of a series of tragic events, can discover from Maisky’s diary that in 1941 an ethnic cleansing plan had already been outlined. Maisky writes in his diary: “For the only ‘plan’ which Weizmann can think of to save central European Jewry (and in the first place Polish Jewry) is this: to move a million Arabs now living in Palestine to Iraq, and to settle four or five million Jews from Poland and other countries on the land which the Arabs had been occupying.”
To read more: http://whatsupic.com/special-world/1403760579.html
June 24, 2014
The New Jewish Prophet
Marc H. Ellis on Gilad Atzmon
Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: I learned this week that Professor Marc H. Ellis - regarded by many as the contemporary leading Jewish theologian, came to the conclusion that yours truly, is the new Jewish prophet.
Here are some quotes I found in the final chapter of “Future of the Prophetic,” Ellis’ new epic treatise.
The Prophet
“Like the ancient prophets Atzmon exposes Jews. At the same time, Atzmon believes that the Bible, from which the prophets spring, is bogus….Atzmon provides no hiding place for Jews anywhere.” (Future of the Prophetic, Marc H. Ellis pg’ 332)
“Atzmon is extreme but, in his extremity, he is much like the biblical prophets.” (pg’332)
“Atzmon performs the prophetic for our time. Like the biblical prophets he does not acknowledge, Atzmon believes we are at the end of Jewish history, a history, like the prophets, he no longer believe exists or, if it does, is not worthy of being carried forward. Irony of ironies, he witnesses to the continuity of both” (pg’ 334)
“Like Moses, though with a twist, Atzmon is constrained from entering the land….Atzmon refuses to return until the Promised Land is liberated from the modern-day Israelites. In short, Atzmon’s homeland is occupied by Jews” (pg’ 336)
