Gilad Atzmon's Blog, page 81
August 30, 2013
Israeli Scientist Challenges Hypothesis of Middle East Origins
Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: Following is a very interesting and important article regarding Jews and their origin. Eran Elhaik, an Israeli young academic, proves that Ashkenazi Jews' roots lie in the Caucasus - in short, Ashkenazim have nothing to do with Palestine or the Middle East. Elhaik's scientific account fits nicely with Shlomo Sand reading of Jewish's History and origin.
'Jews a Race' Genetic Theory Comes Under Fierce Attack by DNA Expert
Israeli Scientist Challenges Hypothesis of Middle East Origins
Science Feud: Johns Hopkins geneticist Eran Elhaik says his research debunks the long-held theory that Jews are a single race.
By Rita Rubin
Published originally by forward.com
Scientists usually don’t call each other “liars” and “frauds.”
But that’s how Johns Hopkins University post-doctoral researcher Eran Elhaik describes a group of widely respected geneticists, including Harry Ostrer, professor of pathology and genetics at Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine and author of the 2012 book “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People.”
For years now, the findings of Ostrer and several other scientists have stood virtually unchallenged on the genetics of Jews and the story they tell of the common Middle East origins shared by many Jewish populations worldwide. Jews — and Ashkenazim in particular — are indeed one people, Ostrer’s research finds.
August 29, 2013
Tonight I am a British Patriot!!!
The House of Common said No to another Zio-Con war. President Obama and the USA are left to fight this war alone, and according to the Israeli Ynet, President Obama is willing to do so.
BBC reports: British MPs have voted to reject possible military action against the Assad regime in Syria to deter the use of chemical weapons.
A government motion was defeated 285 to 272, a majority of 13 votes.
Prime Minster David Cameron said it was clear Parliament does not want action and "the government will act accordingly".
It effectively rules out British involvement in any US-led strikes against the Assad regime.
And it comes as blow to the authority of David Cameron, who had already watered down a government motion proposing military action, in response to the opposition Labour Party's demands for more evidence of Assad's guilt.
Concerts, Tours, Talks and a London Jazz Festival Special Night @ The QEH
September
1 With The Power Cats, wall2wall Jazz Festival, Swan Hotel, Abergavenny
3 Gilad Atzmon Quartet, Wilmslow Conservative Club, Wilmslow
12 With The Blockheads, Central Theatre, Chatham
13 Gilad Atzmon & The OHE, Goring on Thames
15 Gilad Atzmon with Rob Palmer Trio, Jazz East at The Fludyer Arms hotel, Felixstowe.
22 Gilad Atzmon & The OHH at Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury
26 Gilad Atzmon Plays Coltrane, The Watermill Jazz Club, Dorking
27 With Reto Weber and The Squeeze Band, Dudelnge, Luxemburg
29 Gilad Atzmon 4tet Paphos Jazz Festival, Cyprus
October
1-8 Recording in NYC with Ben Meigners and Jason Brown. Information re public meetings and sessions will follow.
10 With Andy Urquhart 4tet, Poole
Touring with Norman Watt Roy’s Faith & Grace Tour
17 SUDBURY Quay Theatre
18+19 GUERNSEY Fermaine Tavern 20 WORCESTER Marr's Bar
22 KINGS HEATH Hare and Hounds
24 PUTNEY Half Moon
25 COLCHESTER Arts Centre
26 TUNBRIDGE WELLS Forum
27 SHEFFIELD Greystones
29 WATFORD The Horns
30 BOLTON The Railway
31 POOLE Mr. Kyp's
November
01 BIDEFORD Palladium
03 PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms
07 DERBY Flowerpot
08 NEWTON ABBOTT Seale Hayne
09 WATCHETT Mineral Line
14 SWINDON The Vic
21 st Gilad Atzmon 20 Years in Britain, London Jazz Festival, special concert at Queen Elizabeth Concert Hall, London South Bank.
Buy Tickets:
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/gilad-atzmon-74480
20 years after landing in the UK, saxophonist and composer Gilad Atzmon has become an intensely creative presence on the European scene, whether leading successive editions of his Orient House Ensemble, developing new work for string quartet alongside interpretations of the evocative Charlie Parker with strings project, or playing with the Blockheads and Robert Wyatt.
This concert offers a journey through Gilad’s varied musical activity, including some very special collaborations.
* not an OHE's concert
**Pre-Show Talk - The Road To Bop -Ahead of this concert, Gilad will give a talk about his first encounter with Jazz music and its impact on his ethical and philosophical stand. The talk will explore different aspects of music and their direct link with Gilad’s views on morality. A rare chance to engage with a star musician who is an equally popular writer and political commentator.
Western Democracies And Criminal Interventionism
By Gilad Atzmon
It doesn’t take a genius to grasp that the American president doesn’t really want to attack Syria. He doesn’t want to topple Assad’s regime - He doesn’t have an alternative partner on the ground. Instead of ‘Shock and Awe’ this time the Pentagon is talking about ‘surgical attack’. The English speaking empire, famous for its destructive inclinations, makes the potential attack on Syria sound like a ‘cosmetic effort’. No one in America, Britain, France or Israel is yet to suggest what is the goal of such an attack. What are the military initiatives? But the most crucial question is what could be the positive outcome of such a military assault? I guess that we have to admit that Obama’s administration is almost as confused as the situation on the ground is.
It seems as if in a relatively short time, the American administration has managed to fall into every possible trap. It is now affiliated as well as conflicting with Al-Qaeda (assuming there is such a thing), Wahhabi war-mongers, Salafi terrorists, the Muslim Brotherhood and their enemies - the Arab seculars and nationalist revolutionary forces. America has tried to appease them all, but it obviously failed in every possible front. Dropping bombs on Syria is not going to provide the goods either. A ‘surgical’ assault on Damascus is not going to appease America’s Wahhabi partners, it may even achieve the opposite. I guess that time is ripe for Obama to re-examine America’s entire interventionist doctrine, but can he? Can an American leader think for himself? Can an American leader think for America? Can an American leader think at all, or is he or her just reacting to Lobby pressure?
John Zorn's Artist Performs to Jews Only (audio)
In the audio recordings, the organisers of the upcoming Daniel Zamir (John Zorn's Tzadik label artist) at Wits University in Johannesburg (scheduled to take place on Wednesday the 28th of August), admit that they make use of "background checks" and are trying to keep the event as a "Jewish only" event - even though the event has been advertised as being open to the general public. The hosting of Israel's Daniel Zamir at Wits University comes five months after another Israeli musical event at Wits University was protested and subsequently cancelled.
Wits University Student: "This is a Jewish only event?"
Organiser of Daniel Zamir Israel concert: "Yes, it is"
for more info: http://www.bdssouthafrica.com/2011/08/audio-recordings-with-evidence-of.html
August 25, 2013
Syria, Israel & The USA
By Gilad Atzmon
Syrian government agreed today to allow UN inspectors to investigate allegations of a suspected chemical weapon attack near Damascus.
The team is to begin work on Monday. Activists say Syrian forces killed more than 300 people in several suburbs east and west of the capital on Wednesday. But more than a few leading commentators admitted in the last few days that it is unlikely that Assad forces have anything to do with such an attack. The chance that the Syrian army would call such an attack on Damascus at a time when UN inspectors are in town is beyond imagination. It is pretty clear that if such an attack took place, it was perpetrated by elements that are foreign to Syria.
But as it seems, the Israelis are excited about the prospect of a big regional war. The Israeli Ynet is reviewing the American might and the prospect of intervention. It is hard to gather why the Israelis are so excited about such a possible escalation, do they really prefer to face Islamic Jihad on their Northern border?
In the meantime, the UN inspectors already confirmed that they will be able to verify whether the attack was of a chemical nature, yet verifying who stood behind the attack would be an impossible task.
Purity, a Jewish Ideal, and Max Blumenthal
http://www.boldfacenews.com/A fundamentalist meme first plays out as tragedy and then is re-enacted as a farce. Both tend to have tragic consequences though. Racial purity as pursued by Nazi Germany referred to the Aryan race. Germanic peoples do indeed belong to the white race.
Israel’s obsession with racial purity is a farçe insofar as Jews are not a race, yet “Jewish blood” is a reality in their minds:
“A number of people from the former Soviet Union wishing to immigrate to Israel could be subjected to DNA testing to prove their Jewishness. The policy was reported in Maariv on Monday, one day after the Israeli paper revealed that a19-year-old woman from the former Soviet Union was required to take the test to qualify for a Birthright Israel trip.”
Ritual purity in Judaism is one of the oldest and most fundamental concepts. A kohen, or priest, cannot enter the Tabernacle unless he is ritualistically pure. Perhaps the most serious form of ritualistic impurity is acquired through contact with a corpse. It is believed that only the ashes of a sacrificed red heifer can remove such uncleanness.
The misnamed Israeli army, IDF, boasts of its code of “purity of arms”:
“The code of purity of arms (Hebrew: טוהר הנשק, Tohar HaNeshek) is one of the values stated in the Israel Defense Forces’ official doctrine of ethics, The Spirit of the IDF.
According to Norman Solomon, the concepts of Havlaga and purity of arms arise out of the ethical and moral values stemming from the tradition of Israel, extrapolation from the Jewish Halakha, and the desire for moral approval and hence political support from the world community.[1] Despite doubts when confronted by indiscriminate terrorism, purity of arms remains the guiding rule for the Israeli forces.[1] These foundations have elicited a fair degree of consensus among Jews, both religious and secular.’
Jeff Blankfort on Max Blumenthal and The Zionification of Palestine
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info
"Blumenthal seems to be following the inevitable path of secular, self-identified "anti-Zionists," who gain credibility by taking a stand as "another Jew against Zionism," as opposed to "another civilized, conscious human being against Zionism," and who, after establishing their "anti-Zionist" credentials with their fellow poseurs as well as Palestinians, soon set their sights on whom they consider "anti-Semites" in the movement who just happen to be those who are pulling their covers like Gilad has done. 
Having spent more than 40 years working on this issue, I can say, with sufficient evidence, documentation, etc., that the Palestine solidarity movement has been dominated by Jews who identify themselves either as anti-Zionist or non-Zionist and who have thus been able to define the parameters in which Zionism and Jewish responsibility for Zionism and Israel's crimes may be discussed or not discussed.
At the same time, there has been absolutely NO measurable achievement by the solidarity movement either in occupied Palestine or in the US where the Israel Lobby, which the aforementioned movement Jews ignore, is today stronger than ever. These infiltrators will not even recognize that Congress is Israeli occupied territory.
