Gilad Atzmon Presents Artie Fishel and the Promised Band

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It is Atzmon's blunt anti-Zionism rather than his music that has given him an international profile, particularly in the Arab world, where his essays are widely read. (He favours a one-state solution in Palestine; he concedes that it will probably be controlled by Islamists, but says, "That's their business.") It has also made him many enemies, even among some former allies. Some Palestinian activists see his provocatively anti-Jewish rhetoric as discrediting their cause, while the Socialist Workers party, which once proudly paraded him at conferences, has distanced itself from him. My albums are nothing like my live shows," he says. "It's very deliberate. I don't think that anyone can sit in a house, at home, and listen to me play a full-on bebop solo. It's too intense. My albums need to be less manic. Of course, the album as a format is dying - soon the only place anybody will sell CDs is at gigs - but they still serve as a very important document of whatever project I'm working on."

a b Gibson, Martin. "No choice but to speak out— Israeli musician 'a proud self-hating Jew'", Gisborne Herald, 23 January 2009. I commend this book to anyone interested in Palestine/Israel, the Middle East in general, or Jewish identity issues." Sheldon Richman The Wandering Who deconstructs the unique political identity that shapes the reality of the Jewish Nation and the crimes committed in its name. As a non-Jew, I found it illuminating!” Sameh Habeeb, Palestine Telegraph Harris, Marc H. (2014). Future of the Prophetic: Israel's Ancient Wisdom Re-presented. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press. pp.331–332. ISBN 978-1451470109.The use of the ideology of suffering as a quasi-religious belief that is no longer subject to normal historical examinations (and in fact shielded from such historical examination by laws). a b Welch, Ben (2 July 2018). "Gilad Atzmon is forced to apologise to CAA's Gideon Falter over libel". The Jewish Chronicle . Retrieved 3 July 2018. At a talk by Richard Falk at LSE in March 2017 at which pro-Israel protestors were expelled for disruption, Atzmon commented that Jews had been "expelled from Germany for misbehaving", and to have recommended the works of David Irving, whose Holocaust denial views are widely known. Atzmon subsequently confirmed that he indeed recommends Irving's work and that in his view "Jews are always expelled for a reason". [81] Bacon, Peter (24 January 2005). "Activist with quotes and plenty to say; Gilad Atzmon CBSO Centre". Birmingham Post . Retrieved 21 May 2020.

Sharan, Shlomo (2010). Crossovers: Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism. Transaction publishers. p.112. ISBN 9781412844888. Those organisations who host Atzmon, and the bodies who support them financially, should be aware that their platforms and support will be used by Atzmon to make the kind of grossly offensive and anti-Jewish statements usually only heard at neo-Nazi meetings. They need to consider whether this is an appropriate use of their facilities and funding, and whether they want to be associated with his views. This post will give examples of what he is likely to say in any public talk that he gives. Gidley, Ben (30 October 2017). "Why Are U.K. Progressives Still Celebrating a Grotesque anti-Semite and Holocaust Denier?". Haaretz . Retrieved 3 May 2020. The phrase 'self-hating Jew' is an insult usually used as a pejorative description of Jewish anti-Zionists. Atzmon actually embraces this description for himself. On p.73 of The Wandering Who? (and also here) Atzmon describes himself as "a proud self-hating Jew." He has written elsewhere (in the comments here):

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Atzmon was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a conservative secular Jewish family. He grew up in Jerusalem, where his father served in the military. [1] [2] [3]

Charlie Parker With Strings was the first jazz album I fell in love with when I was 17," he says. "It's the record that made me want to be a jazz musician. I loved the way the music is both beautiful and subversive - they way he basks in the strings but also fights against them. Since then, I've never been crazy about smooth jazz albums with strings, which is why I wanted to do it properly myself, to put Parker's ideas in a modern context."Professor Davies said that Poles were presented only as observers and one is not allowed to mention Polish victims and suffering: "The probable result of this meeting was to show that Poland was historically the center of anti-Semitism and describing Poles as anti-Semites was justified. I said: I'm sorry, my father-in-law, a Pole, he was in two concentration camps during the Holocaust (...) I was talking about the father-in-law who survived Dachau and Mauthausen. I was shouted down. I heard: "Sit down!" And "Polonofil!". The Anti-Defamation League described Atzmon as "an outspoken promoter of classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and a fierce critic of the State of Israel (who) has engaged in Holocaust diminution and has defended the right of Holocaust deniers to challenge historical narratives and offer revisionist theories about the Holocaust.". [87] Andy Gill, Album: Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen, For The Ghosts Within (Domino), The Independent, 8 October 2011. Wistrich, Robert (2012). From ambivalence to betrayal: the left, the Jews, and Israel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. p.64. ISBN 978-0-8032-4076-6. OCLC 827235539.

November 2011). הפרוטוקולים של גלעד עצמון[The Protocols of Gilad Atzmon]. Yediot Ahronot (in Hebrew) . Retrieved 1 August 2013. דווקא בתור יהודי ששונא יהדות, אני שם את עצמי תחת זכוכית מגדלת ובוחן כל אספקט יהודי בתוכי.[As a Jew who hates Judaism, I put myself under a magnifying glass and examine every Jewish aspect in me.] Using these definitions, Atzmon explains how and why Jewish identity politics was critical in the decision to go to war in Iraq, in the spying on the US by Jonathan Pollard, in the neo-conservative ideologies of Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, and even in economic decisions of Alan Greenspan. He makes clear that he does not see these things as Jewish conspiracies but merely independent actions based on a set of political/ideological discourse (Jewish identity politics). Norman Davies described in his autobiography how an Israeli historian instructed British scholars to classify Poles as "observers" during the Holocaust.

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