Dispute in England
The bottom line of the dispute in England is
positive: though the Jewish alliance keeps the whole spectrum
from Daily Telegraph to Lenin’s Tomb, they lost Counterpunch and
Antiwar, and are retreating into their reservation. Our friends
Gilad Atzmon, Paul Eisen and Mary Rizzo are the shining stars of
the battle, and they are doing good by defeating the adversary.
Here are some salient pieces of the dispute:
http://umkahlillies.blogspot.com/ or
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/2006/12/countering-counterpuncher-atzmon.html
Israel Shamir is the spider at the centre of the
small, but growing, group of people who believe that
anti-Semitism can somehow of be assistance in the development of
a Palestine solidarity campaign. Believed to be a
Russian-Swedish fascist Adam Ermash living in Israel, he openly
denies that there was a Holocaust of European Jews, and argues
that that Auschwitz was merely a labour camp, that there is
substance to the medieval blood libel and that the Palestine
solidarity movement should align itself with white supremacist
and far-right organisations and individuals. To which end Shamir
hasn’t hesitated to speak on the same platforms as David Duke,
the ex-KKK leader, at a Kiev Conference on ‘anti-Zionism’ last
year, and to praise Horst Mahler of the German NPD. Other
luminaries in this group include Paul Eisen, British Director of
Deir Yassin Remembered, whose article ‘Holocaust Wars’ features
on Shamir’s web site. It is a fulsome tribute to Holocaust
Denier, Ernst Zundel. It is an article which Atzmon has
described as ‘a great text’ – something he has never withdrawn.
[The dispute witnessed
full integration of antizionist Jews with Zionist fanatics.
Every attack by these antizionists is presented on a blog of
http://umkahlillies.blogspot.com/ together with denial of
Deir Yassin atrocity and with general denigration of
Palestinians. This integration is never discussed – as opposed
to our items being reproduced on nationalist sites which are
endlessly discussed. ]
One Hundred Years of Jewish Solitude
BY GILAD ATZMON
http://www.gilad.co.uk/html%20files/100years.html
If we take the necessary step and re-define
Zionism as a modern form of Jewish activism which aims at
halting assimilation, we can then re-asses the entire Jewish
tribal political activity as an internal debate within a diverse
Zionist political movement. We should then regard the colonizing
of Palestine as not more than just one single face of Zionism.
In fact, Jewish Socialism fits very nicely into the Zionist
project. Being an integral part of the Zionist network, it is
concerned with the future of the Jewish secular tribe, it is
there to collect the lost souls amongst the Jewish leftists and
it brings them back to Blooms.
http://www.gilad.co.uk/html%20files/3rd.html
The 3rd Category and the Palestinian
Solidarity Movement
Gilad Atzmon
Anyhow, those Jewish leftists fail as well to
fit into the 2nd category. They do not regard themselves as
ordinary humanists who happen to be of Jewish descent. If they
were, they would simply join the Palestinian Solidarity movement
like other Jews who prefer to act mainly as humanists. But then,
rather than joining the Solidarity Campaign, they form some
exclusive political cells that allow them to operate under the
Jewish banner.
What is wrong with these people?
By: Paul Eisen
http://www.amin.org/look/amin/en.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=7&NrArticle=38868&NrIssue=1&NrSection=3
The piece "Countering the Counterpuncher
Atzmon" by Jewish activists Tony Greenstein and Roland Rance is
primarily an attack on Gilad Atzmon but, as is now obligatory in
such pieces somewhere towards the end is the standard reference
to “Eisen the Holocaust denier” or “Eisen the racist” etc., etc.
I try as best I can to take no notice but then I notice the
following:
By Mary Rizzo
http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2006/12/palestinians-need-support-not-division.html
It is curious that Mark Elf (an anti-Zionist) doesn’t have a
problem with David Hirsh, the Zionist, when Elf is used in
attempts to sling mud at Atzmon. For some reason, they probably
feel their issues are harmonious, which is indicative of the
usefulness of Elf for any Palestinian campaigning. But, he is
not a Palestinian campaigner. He does however, allow his other
friends who call themselves anti-Zionist Jews to publish their
paper on his blog. Tony Greenstein and Roland Rance are upset
that Counterpunch didn’t pick up their piece, even though they
publish Atzmon quite regularly. Well, they shouldn’t feel too
bad, their paper is also up at Ziopedia, and maybe they passed
it along to their internet forums, so it is being read.
By Tony Greenstein
Why Palestinian Solidarity Activists Must
Reject Anti-Semitism
A Reply to Mary Rizzo’s Who’s Afraid of Gilad
Atzmon
http://www.marxists.de/racism/antisemitism/counterpunch.htm
Readers of Counterpunch must have been
surprised by the heavily personalised attack by Mary Rizzo (June
17th) on someone 99.99% of them have never heard of. Why this
venom over a picket of a small meeting in the SWP’s bookshop in
London? Unfortunately those reading the article would have been
none the wiser.
Today the Zionist movement regularly accuses
its opponents of ‘anti-Semitism’. In what is a new phenomenon,
there has grown up a small group of people, based around a
certain Israel Shamir, who have said ‘yes’ ‘if you call us
anti-Semites, then there must be nothing wrong with
anti-Semitism’. The phenomenon of a section of the oppressed
adopting the ideological framework of the oppressor is nothing
new. It is a characteristic of separatist movements, e.g. Louis
Farrakhan.
Defaming Pro-Palestinian Jewish Groups:
Reply To Atzmon, By: Deborah Maccoby
http://www.amin.org/look/amin/en.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=7&NrArticle=38731&NrIssue=1&NrSection=3
Not content with calling the noted
anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein and the whole of Jews Against
Zionism "undercover Zionist agents", Atzmon, in his "Protocols
of the Elders of London" piece, dubbed me "The Queen of the
Shtetl". He awarded me this title because I had been expressing
great concern about a organisation called Deir Yassin
Remembered, which has fallen under the influence of the Israeli
journalist Israel Shamir, who has been exposed over and over
again as a fascist and antisemite. Shamir has joined the Board
of Advisers of DYR. Eisen attacks the
secular Jewish pro-Palestinian groups for being part of the
"Jewish Power" world conspiracy: "this is the key to maintaining
Jewish power - if it's indefinable, it's invisible. Like a
Stealth Bomber (you can't see it on your radar but you sure know
when you've been hit) Jewish power, with its blurred outlines
and changing forms, becomes invisible." As Abunimah and Ibish
have made clear, it also corrupts the clear moral anti-racist
principles of the Palestinian solidarity movement. So we have,
as part of our work, been trying to counter the writings of
Shamir, Eisen and Atzmon.
Whereas Shamir and Eisen have been more or
less discredited, Gilad Atzmon - presumably because of his
musical talent and charisma - still enjoys a strange credibility
within the Palestinian solidarity movement, though I don't
believe he's nearly as popular as he has claimed he is in hs
private emails to me.
Who's Afraid of Gilad Atzmon?
By MARY RIZZO
http://www.counterpunch.org/atzmon06172005.html
In the UK, Jews Against Zionism can't abide Gilad Atzmon, and
they have demanded that the SWP renege his invitation. Tony
Greenstein, together with others, has publicised his demands on
the forum of
Just Peace UK, a mainly, but not exclusively Jewish group.
He has put forth an edict that Atzmon is an anti-semite (as well
as anyone who supports him), that he is associated with anti-semites
(because he, like thousands of others, reads material which Tony
does not approve of), and that he is a Holocaust Denier or at
the very least, an apologist for
them.
If only hypocrisy was confined to the Right!
By
Charlie Pottins
Atzmon maintains link with both Eisen and the curious
Russian-born Israeli Israel Shamir, who doubles as
a Swedish antisemite, and has recently featured a visit to
Zundel on his website. From attacking anti-Zionist and
pro-Palestinian ...
RandomPottins - http://randompottins.blogspot.com
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2007/01/16/atzmon _associate_israel_shamir_condemns_the_bnp.php
Much discussion of Shamir’s bloodline (maybe
he is not Jewish???)
Jorgen Jermas, aka "Israel Shamir" is a
professional Borat impersonator and racist. Gilad Atzmon is, in
turn, a tribute act to "Shamir", whose ideas he circulates, and
upon whose head he heaps boundless
praise.
Sue Blackwell's pages on Palestine and
Israel
http://www.sue.be/pal/Tony_G2.html
The spider in the web is Israel Shamir and
what is most dishonest about Rizzo’s article is that not once
did he make an appearance in her article. Shamir runs his own
web site
http://www.israelshamir.net/. His web pages are a veritable
gold mine of anti-Semitic calumnies. You would have to plumb the
depths of the worst neo-Nazi publications to find a defence of
the Easter Blood Libel accusation (that Jews slaughtered
non-Jewish children to make the Passover bread at Easter).
Shamir however disagrees: "The frequent and tendentious use
of the horrifying label (together with 'antisemitism' and
'protocols of the Elders of Zion') brought a certain
depreciation of its value, but it is still going strong. You
can't ever- ever consider that there might be some truth to the
Blood Libel, the accusation of ritual murder of children. Or can
you?" Another contributor, Joh Domingo, states that "Left wing
anti-Fascists have limited appeal." Which might explain why
Domingo posts another little gem on the site,
White Nationalists - a possible ally?
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