1. Gilad Atzmon: Hasbara's Smear Fell Apart Again
As funny as it may sound, Harry's Place -- the infamous Israeli propaganda website and Neocon outlet that rushed to advocate Blair's criminal wars -- is now desperately insisting on mounting pressure on venues to stop me from spreading the necessary message about Israel and its lobbies.
Harry's Place -- The Zionist mouthpiece website that has managed to collate no less than 157 entries on anti racist watchdog Islamophobia Watch ? -- blames me for being a racist.
It is almost amusing.
2. Gilad Atzmon: Hello, Is It Muammar?
Tony Blair, widely criticised in recent days for offering Muammar Gaddafi "the hand of friendship" seven years ago, made an extraordinary personal intervention when he twice phoned the embattled Libyan dictator on Friday and asked him to stop killing protesters rising up against the regime.
I would like to remind every ethically aware human being that Blair's hands are soaked with the blood of 1.5 million Iraqi fatalities who died in an illegal war he himself launched. Blair clearly didn't stop himself from launching a war when 4 millions Britons called him to do so. Blair should be the last to preach peace and harmony. The Ex British PM should be locked behind bars and disappear from our life once and for all.
4. How to Cook a Gentile?
In case you want to find out how to make Chicago A Jewish City
Follow this link
http://www.heebmagazine.com/ten-ways-rahm-emanuel-can-make-chicago-a-jewish-city/?
Heeb Magazine can also teach you how to cook a Gentile.
5. Silvia Cattori: An Interview with Gilad Atzmon-To Call A Spade A Spade
Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 8:59AM Gilad Atzmon 
Silvia Cattori: As a jazz musician, what brought you to use your pen as a weapon against the country where you were born and against your people?
Gilad Atzmon: For many years my music and writings were not integrated at all. I became a musician when I was seventeen and I took it up as a profession when I was twenty four. Though I was not involved with, or interested in politics when I lived in Israel, I was very much against Israel's imperial wars. I identified somehow with the left, but later, when I started to grasp what the Israeli left was all about, I could not find myself in agreement with anything it claimed to believe in, and that is when I realised the crime that was taking place in Palestine.
For me the Oslo Accord was the end of it because I realised that Israel was not aiming towards reconciliation, or even integration in the region, and that it completely dismissed the Palestinian cause. I understood then that I had to leave Israel. It wasn't even a political decision — I just didn't want to be part of the Israeli crime anymore. In 1994 I moved to the UK and I studied philosophy.
In 2001, at the time of the second Intifada, I began to understand that Israel was the ultimate aggressor and was also the biggest threat to world peace. I realised the extent of the involvement and the role of world Jewry as I analysed the relationships between Israel and the Jewish State, between Israel and the Jewish people around the world, and between Jews and Jewishness.
I then realised that the Jewish "left" was not very different at all from the Israeli "left". I should make it clear here that I differentiate between "Left ideology"— a concept that is inspired by universal ethics and a genuine vision of equality – and the "Jewish Left", a tendency or grouping that is there solely to maintain tribal interests that have very little, if anything, to do with universalism, tolerance and equality.
Silvia Cattori: Would you argue that there is a discrepancy between Jews and left?
Gilad Atzmon: Not at all. I should explain here that I never talk about Jews as a people. I differentiate between Jews (the people) Judaism (the religion) and Jewishness (the culture). In my work, I am only elaborating on the third category, i.e. Jewishness. Also it should be understood that I differentiate between the tribal "Jewish Left", and Leftists who simply happen to be Jewish. Indeed, I would be the first to admit that there are many great leftists and humanists who happen to be of Jewish origin. However those Jews who operate under a "Jewish banner" seem to me to be Zionist fig leafs: they are solely there to convey an image of "Jewish pluralism". In fact, when I grasped the full role of the "Jewish left" I realised that I may end up fighting alone against the strongest power around.
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