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June 30, 2013
21st Century Wire TV – Episode 4 – ‘A Conversation with Gilad Atzmon’ (video)
21st Century Wire – Episode 4 – ‘A Conversation with Gilad Atzmon’ – Host Patrick Henningsen and special guest award-winning musician and author, Gilad Atzmon, discussing the power of the Israeli lobby in Europe and the US, and a deeper look into Jewish identity politics as detailed in Atzmon’s new book, ‘The Wandering Who?’.Don’t miss this engaging discussion…
This show aired in 2012 on SKY Channel 191 Paradigm Shift TV(PSTV) in the UK:
http://www.paradigmshift.tv
For info on upcoming DVD’s visit:
http://www.21stcenturywire.com/2012/1…
June 29, 2013
Netanyahu On ‘The Jew’, Herzl and Tikkun Olam
By Gilad Atzmon
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a fascinating speech yesterday at the memorial ceremony of Theodor Herzl in Jerusalem (27.6.2013). ‘The Jew’, stated Netanyahu, is the saver and the liberator of humanity. He and she are the true meaning of progress as conveyed by the notion of ‘Tikkun Olam’ (fixing the world). ‘The Jew’, according to the Israeli PM, is the emblem of philosophical, ideological, spiritual, scientific and aesthetic innovation.
In his attempt to describe late 19th Century Jewish life in Vienna, Netanyahu said “they (the Jews) rose and flourished in science, art, medicine, philosophy, music, journalism, business, economics - Jewish prosperity can not be described. Freud, Mahler, Schnitzler, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein who came from a Jewish home, Stefan Zweig…”
But then, like Herzl, Netanyahu accepts that in spite of all their greatness, European Jews were doomed - they were despised and were eventually subject to a horrendous fate. According to Netanyahu and his mentor Herzl, antisemitism is engraved in the Goy’s mind. “People are willing to believe everything about the Jews,” he says.
Football and Palestine (must watch)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSgqErDOAwI
Published on Jun 4, 2013
A film by Gregg McDonald of Consequential Films
Producers, Hugh Tisdale and Deborah Rich of Philosophy Football
In the autumn of 2011 Philosophy met Honey Thalijeh, then captain of the Palestine Women's Football team.
Honey told us the story of football in her country and we made a promise. That for Euro 2013, the Under 21s tournament hosted by Israel, we would visit Palestine to make a film and help tell the world what football means for ordinary Palestinians living on the other side of the wall Israel built to encircle and occupy their land.
The film was made on the eve of Israel hosting Euro 2013. Filmed, cut and edited in the space of 48 hours this is politically-committed reportage at its rapid and rough best. It was premiered at the Palestine Olympic Association HQ in Ramallah. Please spread this film far and wide.
The Palestine Football Supporters Club T-shirt is available at www.philosophyfootball.com
June 28, 2013
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June 26, 2013
Smearing Alice Walker
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/26/smearing-alice-walker/
by JEFFREY BLANKFORT
In the comments section of a recent online article in the right wing New York Jewish publication, Algemeiner, not to be confused with the Frankfurter Allgemeine but conceivably with Der Sturmer, there was an argument over whether or not the “Mossad should deal with” Alice Walker as punishment for the critical comments directed towards Israel and American Jewish supporters of Israel in her latest book, “The Cushion in the Road” which, we can assume, none of those commenting had read.
All it took to set off the threat and a stream of racist venom against the 69 year African-American author was an inflammatory headline in Algemeiner’s June 19th edition:“ADL Blasts Anti-Israel Author Walker: ‘She is ‘unabashedly infected with Anti-Semitism’” followed by an article in the same vein.
As could be anticipated from the headline, the story featured a statement by Anti-Defamation League director, Abe Foxman:
“Alice Walker has sunk to new lows with essays that remove the gloss of her anti-Israel activism to reveal someone who is unabashedly infected with anti-Semitism.
“She has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level, revealing the depth of her hatred of Jews and Israel to a degree that we have not witnessed before. Her descriptions of the conflict are so grossly inaccurate and biased that it seems Walker wants the uninformed reader to come away sharing her hate-filled conclusions that Israel is committing the greatest atrocity in the history of the world.”
According to an ADL press release, Walker’s book “devotes 80 pages to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, often making comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany, denigrating Judaism and Jews, and suggesting that Israel should cease to exist as a Jewish state.”
Gilad's concerts & talks (June - July)
27 - Gilad Atzmon & The OHE @ Norwich Art Centre
28 - Jazz Baroque Fusion, Gilad Atzmon with Jennifer Bennett (violin and viola de gamba) & Yair Avidor (lute & theorbo) @ Harwich Festival +Pre Concert talk by Gilad Atzmon
29th Gilad Atzmon & the OHE St. Mary's church hall, Felpham, Bognor Regis
30 - Mauro Grossi 4tet featuring Gilad Atzmon, PratoEstate Festival, Prato Italy
July
4 - Gilad Atzmon & The OHE @ NC Jazz, The Castle, North Hampton
5 - Gilad Atzmon & The OHE @ Birmingham Jazz, "Old Joint Stock", 4 Temple Row W, Birmingham, B2 5NY
6 - With The Blockheads, Mostly Jazz Festival, Birmingham
7 - With Roger Odell 4tet, The Cherry Tree, Knowl Green, Belchamp St Paul, Suffolk
8 - With Nicolas Meier Group, July 8th, Fribourg Jazz Festival, Switzerlan
9 - With Christian Brewer, The Lower Ground, West Hampstead, London
10-11- With Sarah Gillespie, Album Launch, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean St, Soho London
To Book 10/7 click here
To Book 11/7 click here
13 - Swanage Jazz Festival 3 concerts: Gilad Atzmon & the OHE, Gilad Atzmon & The OHE, Power Cats and with Sarah Gillespie quartet
15 - With Nick Hill at the Bedford Arms, Bedford
18 - With Asaf Airkis and Tim Thornton London, Jazz At the Tavern, The Great Northern Railway Tavern. 67 High Street, Hornsey, London N8 7QB
20 - Gilad Atzmon and the OHE, @ Hideaway, Streatham, London. Last Orient House Concert in London ahead of the London Jazz Festival (QEH 21 of November)
24 - Norman Watt-Roy Album Launch at Rough Trade, London
25 - Gilad Atzmon Frank Harrison Duo Cotswold Cricket Museum, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire
26 With the Blockheads, Fringe Festival, Llangollen
28 With the Blockheads, Rewind Festival at Scone Palace, Perth, Scotland
Gabi Weber: The Gatekeeper of Freiburg University
Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: defeating Israel and The Lobby in a Western court, let alone, Germany, is a rare event. The following article tells the story of such a victory. It exposes the work of Dr. Heinrich Schwendemann, a shameless Sabbath Goy and a Holocaust Industry pedlar. Café Palestine Freiburg has managed to unveil his tactics and his destructive power within the University.
The Gatekeeper of Freiburg University
By Gabi Weber
http://othersite.org/gabi-weber-the-gatekeeper-of-freiburg-university/
Six weeks ago, the University of Freiburg was defeated by Cafe Palestine (Press Release) when five judges at the Administrative Court of Freiburg rejected the university’s arguments for denying Cafe Palestine a venue for one of its speakers. Surely it is now time to delve a little more deeply into this unprecedented case which deserves close attention.
At the centre of it all we find one Dr. Heinrich Schwendemann, Freiburg University historian and a founder of one of many German Holocaust memorial sites Shoa.de.
A year ago, Cafe Palestine invited Dr. Schwendemann, together with Prof. Norton Mezvinsky the renowned American Jewish historian to participate in a panel at Freiburg University. Also participating was Gilad Atzmon, the Jazz artist and author of "The Wandering Who – A Study of Jewish Identity Politics". This much discussed book has been endorsed by some of the most important scholars and intellectuals of our time with a German edition published in June 2012.
Dr. Schwendemann enthusiastically accepted the invitation but, three days before the event, he changed his mind insisting that reading Atzmon’s book made it impossible for him to share a platform with somebody who is "relativising the Holocaust". The event took place without Dr. Schwendemann (Speech Gilad Atzmon), (Speech Prof. Mezvinsky)
In July 2012, Cafe Palestine planned to host another talk at Freiburg University featuring French professor Christophe Oberlin from Paris. The talk was titled "Plastic Surgery in Gaza" and was set to attract the attention of the local medical community as well as Palestine supporters and humanists. But Cafe Palestine soon learned that the university had decided to withdraw use of the venue. Smelling a rat, Cafe Palestine looked closely into this cancellation and after having received the letter from the University outlining the reasons for the cancellation, decided to issue a complaint at the Administrative Court.
June 25, 2013
A Conversation with Gilad Atzmon - 21st Century Wire TV (Part 2 of 3)
21st Century Wire - Episode 5 - 'A Conversation with Gilad Atzmon' - Host Patrick Henningsen and Gilad Atzmon, discussing the lethal power of the Israeli lobby in Europe and the US, the destructive power of Jewish secular politics and a deeper look into Jewish identity politics as detailed in Atzmon's new book, 'The Wandering Who?'.Don't miss this engaging discussion...
p.s. I am a bit slow on this interview, I was recovering from a head injury at the time.
June 23, 2013
Hot Off The Press: Israelis aren’t racist
By Gilad Atzmon
They kill everyone equally!
On Friday, an Israeli security guard shot dead a fellow-Israeli Jew at the wailing wall saying later he feared the man was a Palestinian militant because he had shouted "Allahu akbar" ("God is the greatest" in Arabic).
The verdict is clear. Israelis are not racist. They kill everyone who shouts ‘Allahu akbar’ regardless of one's race, gender or religion.
