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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
By Gilad Atzmon
It is astonishing to find that the British press that is so quick to tell us about the 'true' nature and motivations behind each mass protest in the Arab world, is somehow intellectually lame in its attempt to grasp their own huge scale riots at home. Until now, I ...
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
By Gilad Atzmon
It is almost amusing to find out that some of the most clichéd Marxists around are so taken by the current Israeli popular protest, which they foolishly interpret as a manifestation of the 'Israeli revolutionary spirit'. They are convinced that now that the Israeli 'working class' are rising, peace will necessarily ...
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
Charles H. Ferguson's Inside Job might be a fine documentary on the current financial crisis but as jazz musician and writer Gilad Atzmon says, the film seems to overlook the fact that as America was implementing ‘the Wolfowitz doctrine’ and fighting a Zionist war, a cabal of corrupted bankers pocketed billions, creating ...
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Monday, January 31st, 2011
With each passing day, American foreign policy is beginning to look like Israel's. Writer and jazz musician Gilad Atzmon argues that with every new street protest, riot or full-on war somewhere in the Middle East, Americans are waking up that its resources are being exhausted supporting Israel's. It's time to ...
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
The legendary British music icon Robert Wyatt is a big supporter of Palestine. Last week, he was in London to promote For The Ghosts Within, a new album featuring Wyatt, jazz saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and violinist Ros Stephen. At the same time, Atzmon and Wyatt also talked about Palestine, music, ...
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Jewish racism knows no boundaries. Though many people of many ethnic origins live between the river and the sea, the Jewish State is not exactly a multi- cultural society. The Israeli legal system is racist to the bone; it is a true mirror of Jewish supremacy and Talmudic tribalism. In ...
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
By Gilad Atzmon
MONDAY, MAY 31, 2010 AT 11:58 AM - As I write this piece the scale of the Israeli lethal slaughter at sea is yet to be clear. However we already know that at around 4 am Gaza time, hundreds of IDF commandos stormed the Free Gaza international humanitarian ...
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
In London schools today, children are taught about the Holocaust, how bad the Nazis were. But, asks jazz musician and writer Gilad Atzmon, is anyone teaching about the immorality of Empire? Or Israeli aggression in Gaza? Atzmon is confident the real lesson is being learnt - that genocide, by whichever ...
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
One bloody incident in Rafah in 1956 left 111 Palestinians dead, shot by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killings, that day in Rafah also reveals the competing truths that have come to define an intractable war. In his new graphic novel, Footnotes In Gaza, Joe ...
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
In spite of being an action-packed movie, the message of James Cameron's Avatar, the US$300 million cinematic spectacle, is clear: NO to war, NO to greed, NO to intervention, NO to throwing bombs, YES to nature, harmony and respecting the beliefs of others. Review by jazz musician and writer Gilad ...
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