EXCLUSIVE – Focus on Jonathan Hoffman’s Fascist Friends

The Question is why Jonathan Arkush tolerates Hoffman, the friend of neo-Nazis as a member of the Board of Deputies

‘Liar, liar’ former Zionist Vice-Chair Jonathan Hoffman tweets whenever I point to his links with his fascist friends Paul Besser included.  Now it seems that Besser is involved in Pegida UK, which Tommy Robinson helped found.  One wonders whether that is more kosher than Britain 1^st?  What is clear is that whatever his fascist links, they are still current and active.  The fact that Hoffman and his merry band of Zionists, who go around London trying to disrupt Palestinian events, work with an assortment of fascists throws new light on their claim to oppose ‘anti-Semitism’.

One such fascist is Dr.Brian of London who supports the EDL. Dr Brian hosted Tommy Robinson on his trip to Israel last year, as did KAY WILSON  who is also on the far-right. Wilson was the main speaker with the President of the Board of Deputies Jonathan Arkush at the Board’s and Zionist Federation’s Al Quds Day counter-demo in July this year.

what is that on the bottom right if not an anti-semitic cartoon from Dr Brian of London

Another Zionist fascist is Simon Harris who attended the LAST DAY OF SILENCE RALLY of UK Pegida on 23 Sept. 2017 in Whitehall.

Ann Marie Waters

Pic showa Waters speaking with Besser on far left. Also in pic Hoffman crony
Ambrosine Shitrit looking at camers.

Anne Marie Waters was the main speaker at the rally. Waters was a founder of PEGIDA-UK with Tommy Robinson in early 2017. Robinson apologised for his absence from the rally but he had to attend a wedding. Pegida-UK use "front"names for their demos. The other main speaker was Zionist SIMON HARRIS  who runs EDL -EEUROPEAN DEFENCE LEAGUE.   Here is a bit more about Harris.  Also in the frame is Hoffman crony Ambrosine Shitrit looking at camera.

Besser with Simon Harris at PEGIDA-UK front rally 23 Sept.2017

Ms Waters seems to have had quite a chequered political career.  She stood for Labour in a Lambeth borough council election in 2010 and in 2013 she was shortlisted as a Labour candidate in Brighton Pavilion!  She was recently the runner up in the UKIP leadership election.  Indeed she was tipped to win the election until Farrage, Banks and others threatened to resign.  She has now set up a far-Right party For Britain, which has the support of Tommy Robinson.

Tommy Robinson on tank

Here is Brian of London hosting Tommy Robinson in Israel-

You can hear Simon Harris and "Dr. Brian of London" - in their own words

Bessser with assorted fascists at their tiny demo on 23rd Sept - Simon Harris is sitting down besides him.  Thanks to the owner of the drone!

In this picture Besser is at top left of the picture with Simon Harris sitting down behind him. In got this picture through the use of a surveillance drone.  Unfortunately it was not possible to purchase one with hell fire missiles!

Besser is apparently crowing that Asa Winstanley "admitted" he is no longer with Britain First. However before Asa published his excellent article which I am copying below, Asa asked Besser and BF  to comment on his relationship to Britain First but they did not respond.  It seems though that Besser has gone from the Jayda Fransen/Paul Golding frying pan to Pegida and the Anne Marie Waters fire. 

Besser professes his Jewishness in touching tones: 

‘i am Jewish, born a Jew and brought up within the Jewish faith and i have never stepped away from my Jewish faith. Everything i have ever seen or researched leads me to one inevitable fact that the region now named the State of Israel, is the Jewish homeland.’ 

Here we see  the BF 'Intelligdence' Officer Besser on the far right in the second row marching behind a large cross - very Jewish!

Leaving aside the small fact that Israel is not a region it is noticeable that this doesn’t however stop him and Paul Golding from signing off to each other with OCS – Onward Christian Soldiers!  Britain First are a fascist group that hark back to the golden days of Christian anti-Semitism. As you will see in the pictures, both Fransen and Golding march with a large cross.

In Europe there were a number of regimes and groups, especially in Eastern Europe whose anti-Semitism was clothed in a Christian guise.

I am bemused that Besser signs off OCS - Onwards Christian Soldiers - that was the slogan that the Crusaders used when they slaughtered 1.5 million Jews before setting off in the 12th century

In Slovakia the Nazi puppet state from 1939-45 was led by a Catholic priest, Father Tiso.  Likewise the Ustashi in Croatia where there was the only extermination camp, Jasenovac not run by the Nazis.  In Romania the main fascist group the Archangel of St Michael or the Iron Guard was a viciously anti-Semitic group and the Arrow Cross in Hungary, which had the blood of at least 50,000 Jews on their hands was also Christian.  For Besser to ally with this group demonstrates the extent of his Jewishness.  And for Hoffman to keep company with this neo-Nazi demonstrates exactly what the extent of his opposition to ‘anti-Semitism’ amounts to.

Besser doesn’t seem to have enjoyed all the free publicity I have given him.  In Timothy Horgan ‘The Jew Stalker’and the left wing Nazi propaganda machine he bemoans the

‘goons from the political anti-Israel  left wing, (who) have led a coordinated smear campaign about myself. First of all, i am new to this but after certain events have unfolded i feel that i have had to give a written response. Never Again UK has allowed me a platform in which i can tell part of my story, so please do excuse the fact if this blog is not grammatically perfect.’

Of course we forgive his lack of good grammar but that is the only thing we forgive this most unintelligent former Intelligence Officer.

It's difficult to get to sleep knowing that Besser is threatening me with a libel suit

I have to say that I am most disappointed that Besser has resorted to personal attacks on me and my friends.  I really did think that he was better than that.  He writes:

‘Being politically active and sharing my love and support for the State of Israel, this is where people such as Timothy Horgan, Jacqueline Walker, Tony Greenstein, Asa Winstanley, etc. have decided to co ordinate an attack on my character and demonise me in order to hurt my fellow Jewish advocates for the State Of Israel.’

The Labour Party's attempts to expel me for 'anti-Semitism are approved by fascists and holocaust deniers!

Apart from the lack of, well, good grammar it would appear that he doesn’t appreciate my associating him with Jonathan Hoffman.  Or is it the other way around?  Who is the bigger liability these days?

It would seem that Besser is gathering evidence for a libel action against me.  Although I don’t usually provide free legal advice to fascists, on this occasion I will make an exception.  If you go to the libel courts you have to have a character to defend.  Besser’s is beyond repair.  It is noteworthy though that this fascist goon has picked up on my threatened expulsion from the Labour Party.  It’s a sad state of affairs when fascists and anti-Semites crow about the right-wing’s expulsion of socialists for ‘anti-Semitism’.  But maybe I should not be too surprised.  Besser signs off Am Yisrael Chai, Long live Israel, the chant of the Israeli settlers and also Tom Watson at the last Labour Friends of Israel reception.

Tony Greenstein

Virulently anti-Muslim Britain First, retweeted by Trump, also backs Israel

Asa Winstanley Lobby Watch 29 November 2017

Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of Britain First, in a still from one of the anti-Muslim hate group’s “Christian Patrol” videos. Behind her is Paul Besser, an anti-Palestinian activist who was Britain First’s “intelligence officer.”

President Donald Trump shared three tweets Wednesday from a far-right anti-Muslim party with ties to the UK’s Zionist movement.

Trump’s account retweeted deputy leader of Britain First Jayda Fransen, sharing three anti-Muslim videos she had posted.

Fransen responded by tweeting, “God bless you Trump! God bless America! OCS” – an acronym for Onward Christian Soldiers.

She also boasted that Trump’s tweets had led to new interviews with mainstream media outlets.
Fransen claimed in one of the tweets shared by Trump that a video portrayed a “Muslim migrant” attacking a disabled Dutch boy.

The Dutch embassy in Washington responded to the tweet, pointing out that the “perpetrator of the violent act in this video was born and raised in the Netherlands” and had served a sentence under Dutch law.

“Abhorrent” and “dangerous”
Prime Minister Theresa May said Trump was “wrong” to share the videos and said Britain First used “hateful narratives which peddle lies and stoke tensions.”

Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn urged the government to condemn Trump’s reposting of the tweets, calling them “abhorrent, dangerous and a threat to our society.”

Britain First’s aims include a total ban on Islam. The group was founded in 2011 by former British National Party activists.

In a BBC documentary in 2015, leader Paul Golding warned of “bloodshed” and “civil war” against Muslims.

One opposition Labour lawmaker has called for Britain First to be banned, after fellow MP Jo Cox was murdered by neo-Nazi Thomas Mair last year.

Platform for hate

Although Britain First is thought to have only a small number of active members, and its performance at the ballot box has been dismal, its Facebook page now has 1.9 million “likes.”

This gives it a large platform to spread its often factually questionable and stridently anti-Muslim message.

As previously reported by The Electronic Intifada, Britain First is pro-Israel and has links to the UK’s Zionist movement.

In July, Fransen appeared to endorse Israel’s violent suppression of what she labeled “Muslim riots.”

The video she posted appears to show Israeli occupation forces firing tear gas at Palestinian civilians.

Fransen has frequently posted tweets in support of Israel’s violent tactics against Palestinians. She has also called Palestinians “imbeciles” for protesting Trump.

Paul Besser, once a leading Britain First activist and the group’s “intelligence officer,” is a frequent part of London’s anti-Palestinian scene.

Although both he and the Zionist Federation did not reply to requests for comment at the time, months after The Electronic Intifada report on him was published Besser claimed to have left the group “up to 15 or 16 months ago.”

In a blog post earlier this month, he said that “why I joined and why I left [Britain First] are different stories to tell, for another time.”

Britain First videos – some racking up millions of views – often revolve around violent anti-Muslim provocations, such as the group’s “Christian patrols” and “invasions” of mosques and halal slaughterhouses.

A Britain First video from last year shows Besser was present at a provocative “Christian patrol” led by Fransen in Luton.

Such “invasions” are usually led by Fransen and leader Golding, and have often landed them in legal trouble.

Just days ago, Fransen was arrested and charged with allegedly using “threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior” at a Belfast rally in August.

In October, Fransen was arrested for allegedly breaching bail conditions. She also reportedly gave an interview to a neo-Nazi radio station during a tour of Europe.

In November 2016, Fransen was fined $2,500 for religiously aggravated harassment of a Muslim woman.

Blog linked to Israeli army calls for murder of Palestinian children

Ali Abunimah 5 August 2013

“Brian of London,” (center) with the Israeli army spokesperson Barak Raz (right) and the Jewish Agency’s Avi Mayer. (Source)

“I am pissed off that he’s being arrested by soldiers in the middle of the night for the umpteenth time. Because he should have been shot and killed already.”

This incitement to murder Muhammad Abu Hashem, a 17-year-old from the occupied West Bank village of Beit Ommar, appeared today on a prominent blog which has close ties to the Israeli army and functions as an outlet for its anti-Palestinian propaganda.

The incitement came in response to a New York Times article by Jodi Rudoren, which profiled boys in the village who throw stones at Israeli occupation forces and settlers who have forcibly taken much of the village’s land (the facts about Israel’s massive expropriations of Beit Ommar’s land are omitted from the article, which represents stone-throwing as a sort of Palestinian pathology).

The village of Beit Ommar and its people – especially children – are under constant violent assault from the Israeli army and settlers, as Mousa Abu Maria of the Palestine Solidarity Project told The Electronic Intifada in April.

Yet, Brian of London, who also uses the alias Brian John Thomas, added, “This kind of writing, humanising these damn savages with their rock throwing as if its some kind of noble endeavour, sickens me. The only reason they do this with rocks is they know we’d shoot them if they had guns.”

Brian of London had also posted similar incitement on Rudoren’s Facebook page, prompting Rudoren to comment publicly: “I asked Brian John Thomas to refrain from violent, threatening messages.”

Ties to Israeli army and “security” establishment

Brian of London wrote his demand that indigenous children living under occupation be killed in cold blood for the benefit of illegal colonial settlers on the blog Israellycool, whose publisher David Lange is invited to special briefings with Israeli “security sources.”

Lange, a settler from Australia, goes by the pen name “Aussie Dave.”

Among the propaganda services the Israellycool blog has provided to the occupation is advancing the baseless theory, fed to Lange by the army, that the 2010 death of Jawaher Abu Rahmeh, in the West Bank village of Bilin was due to a so-called “honor killing.” Abu Rahmeh, 36, died, according to witnesses, as a result of exposure to teargas that occupation forces fired at villagers protesting land confiscations.

Brian of London can be seen in the photo above, posted on Twitter by Israeli army spokesperson Barak Raz on 31 July, standing between Raz, who is on the right, and the Jewish Agency’s social media propagandist Avi Mayer. Thomas also tweeted a photo of himself with Raz and Mayer on the same day.

This appears to be more than just a fleeting meeting, as Mayer, himself a former Israeli army spokesperson, had tweeted about meeting with Brian of London in February as well.

Brian of London/Brian Thomas also writes for the Times of Israel website and has helped to promote the Israeli electric car company Better Place, an occupation profiteer which is illegally building infrastructure in the occupied West Bank.

According to his Times of Israel profile, Brian of London became a settler from the UK in 2009, and as recently as today, according to a check-in, traveled to the colony of Alon Shvut in the occupied West Bank.

With thanks to Benjamin Doherty and Andrew Kadi for additional research.

An anti-Semite (Atzmon) and a leading Zionist (Avi Mayer) Join Hands

Atzmon helps the Jewish Agency frame Ali Abunimah as a ‘racist’.

Gilad Atzmon, who nowadays has little or no influence in the Palestine solidarity movement, after the expulsion of a holocaust denier friend of his, Frances Clark-Lowes, from PSC in 2011, has taken to providing false or manipulated information to the people like Avi Mayer of the Zionist Jewish Agency suggesting that Ali is a racist.

Mayer is a paid propagandist of the Jewish Agency.  This is his profile:

Mayer Social Media Activist

With a new battle front opening up online, especially on Twitter, Mayer has become a vocal and tech savvy supporter of Jewry and the Jewish state. Whether it’s demolishing an anti-Israel advocate in 140 characters or less, or disseminating stories that shed light on the positive aspects emerging from Israel, Mayer is a leader of the new breed of internet cheerleaders and has become the bane of many an anti-Semitic tweeter.

Mayer’s use of ‘anti-Semitism’ is wholly cynical. Zionism came into being on the basis that anti-Semitism was a natural phenomenon.  As its founder, Theodor Herzl wrote:  In Paris I began to understand and to pardon anti-Semitism - Herzl Diaries p.6).   The only reason for the Jewish Agency existing today (it used to be the quasi-government of the Yishuv, the pre-1948 Jewish population in Palestine ) is to provide a means for the state to discriminate against Arabs whilst denying it is doing any such thing.

Instead of the State refusing the right of Arabs to lease land it subcontracts this out to the Jewish Agency. It uses the Jewish Agency and Jewish National Fund (another para-state organisation) to ‘Judaify’ areas such as the Galilee and Negev. One would have though that Meyer might first deal with the mote in his own eyes before searching for the beam in others!

The article itself is below, but I have a few comments of my own.

The key phrase that Ali Abunimah uses, that Avi Mayer exploits, is ‘What you describe as "Jewish" might perhaps be more accurately described as "Zionist," - and then we might find grounds for a lot of agreement.’ It is clear that the word ‘might’ qualifies both the description of Jewish behaviour as Zionism and any future agreement between the two. In retrospect, I am sure that Ali wishes that he had never even engaged with Atzmon or tried to give him the benefit of a doubt.   However many of us have tried to wean Atzmon off the equivalent of his mother's milk without success. 

To suggest that Ali’s comment above was ‘coaching’ or advising Atzmon to ‘conceal’ his anti-Semitism is a deliberate lie by someone to whom lying comes second nature. This suggestion by Mayer is a good example of someone well versed in the Goebbel’s technique – the bigger the lie the more likely it is to be believed.

In fact Atzmon demonstrates during the conversation both his Zionism and anti-Semitism. In the sentence ‘It is important for me to mention that I referred to Jewish identity and Jewish Ideology rather than to Jewish people. In my entire career I have never referred to Jewish people, Jewish ethnicity or race!!’ one has to remind him that there isn’t and never has been one Jewish identity, certainly not in the past century and a half. The suggestion that there is a ‘Jewish ideology’ is clearly anti-Semitic. Just as it would be nonsense to suggest there was a Catholic or Protestant ideology. Of course all religions change their ideas and identiy but Atzmon's essentialism fixes a Jewish identity for all time.  It is therefore either biologically determinist or cultural racism.  If Atzmon were simply referring to Orthodox Judaism there might be a grain of truth in it, but to suggest there is one common ideology that connects me and Netanyahu is racist. Pure and simple.
Atzmon also lies when he says he has never referred to Jewish people ethnicity or race. Perhaps he has a poor memory as smoking the weed can result in memory lapses. But in my Guide to Atzmon  the great man says, for example that ‘When a so-called ‘better’ Jew refers to himself as a ‘Jew’, what is it that he refers to? Is it his racial belonging? Is it biological determinism in play? Is it the ethnic identity…’ ‘Zionism is inherently a racially oriented "homecoming" project’ ‘‘Ostrovsky refers to racial solidarity, I call it 3rd category brotherhood and Weizmann calls it Zionism.’ No doubt there are more examples of how Atzmon never refers to Jewish ethnicity or race!

Atzmon goes on to say that ‘since Israel presents itself as ‘the Jewish state’, we must be entitled to elaborate on Jewish identity, Jewish ideology and Jewish politics.’ I am sure students of logic can see the flawed nature of this argument which is why Atzmon is both a Zionist and an anti-Semite. Do we accept Israel’s or Zionism’s claims to be a ‘Jewish’ state? What is inherently Jewish about it other than that it uses being 'Jewish' as a mark of privilege? Did White South Africans demonstrate that all white people are inherently racist?  Atzmon is happy to accept Israel’s self-definition of itself.

The other obvious nonsense is to suggest that Zionism is to do with the diaspora not Israel: ‘Zionism is not a living discourse in Israel. Zionism is a diaspora discourse. Both Ilan myself and a few other millions were not educated as Zionists ( Jews awaiting transformation) but as Sabras (the ‘success fruits’ of Zionism). We were the post revolutionary entities. Hence the attack on ‘Zionism’ can hardly touch Israelis (and in fact it doesn’t).'

This is a clear statement that the structures of apartheid are a product of Jewish racism, not the settler-colonial and Zionist nature of Israel. The fact that most Israelis consider Zionism irrelevant doesn’t mean that that is true. It means that they consider occupation, repression and discrimination are normative behaviour. Unfortunately Atzmon is at one with them.

Tony Greenstein

A response to recent efforts to cast me as a racist

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 10/16/2013 - 10:08

I do not usually write in response to nonsensical online allegations by bigots. If I did I would have little time for anything else.

However, I thought it was important to do so in this case.

The allegation

Over recent weeks, MJ Rosenberg, a well-known pro-Israel commentator, published six blog posts smearing me as "anti-Semitic." His posts are not my concern here but are mentioned as context.
On 13 October, Gilad Atzmon made this post on Facebook:

M.J. Rosenberg is wrong this time; Ali Abunimah is not an antisemite, he is just dishonest/stupid. Abunimah calls Israelis Zionists because he needs the so called Jewish ‘anti’ Zionists to support his operation. The last time i communicated with Ali Abunimah he wrote to me, ‘Just refer to Zionism instead of Jewish identity and everything would be fine’. He basically asked me to lie.. I obviously refused…

Atzmon has even paid to promote this message on Facebook as a "sponsored" post. But the words that Atzmon attributes to me in his Facebook post are fabricated. I never wrote those words.
However, Avi Mayer, the social media director of Israel’s Jewish Agency, among others, has been gleefully disseminating Atzmon’s Facebook posting embellishing it with the allegation that I "coached" Atzmon on how to "hide his anti-Semitism."

Some examples of Mayer’s tweets:

Today, Atzmon repeated his allegations in a rambling blog post which includes a small snippet of a brief exchange of Facebook messages I had with him in 2010, where I wrote:

What you describe as ‘Jewish’ might perhaps be more accurately described as ‘Zionist,’ - and then we might find grounds for a lot of agreement.

 Atzmon claims that this is "a juicy bit of information Abunimah would probably prefer to keep hidden from the public eye."

Far from it. Atzmon did not publish our entire correspondence because that would undermine his nonsensical claims. So I will do so.

The facts

In November 2010, I was invited to speak at a conference in Stuttgart, Germany on the one-state solution.
Atzmon apparently invited himself to this conference and somehow parlayed his way onto the stage to give what was called a "greeting."
Atzmon was not an invited speaker and never appeared on the published conference program or the list of speakers (Videos of the conference were made and published by an independent organization, publicsolidarity.de).

At that point, I had not paid much attention to his work.

When he spoke, I (and many others at the conference) found Atzmon’s comments disturbing because he appeared to be blaming Jews as Jews for the conflict in Palestine, rather than the settler-colonial practice and political ideology of Zionism.

The first thing I did the next day, when it was my turn to speak, was to object publicly to Atzmon’s statements. My comments are in this video:

Stuttgart - Palästinakonferenz - Ali Abunimah (6/8)

Two days after the conference, Atzmon contacted me via Facebook and we had a brief, polite exchange of private messages, but one in which I reiterated the objections I made in Stuttgart. Atzmon initiated the exchange. I responded to him once. He followed up with two more messages.

It is, as far as I recall, the only occasion I have ever written to Atzmon.

Although the exchange was cordial, I never did meet with Atzmon, and never again responded to any of the numerous private messages he has sent me, including in the last few weeks, pleading with me to revise my views of him. The "Ilan" Atzmon refers to in his messages is Ilan Pappe, who was an invited speaker at the Stuttgart conference.

Here is the entire transcript of the exchange.

(Note: these messages appear in the chronological order in which they were sent. They are taken from the stored archive of a Facebook account I no longer use. A bug in the Facebook archive makes it appear as if the first message was sent on 1 December 2010. It was however sent before the other messages).

From: Gilad Atzmon
December 1, 2010 at 9:18 pm

Dear Ali,

I realised today that you were upset by my short talk in Stuttgart.

It is important for me to mention that I referred to Jewish identity and Jewish Ideology rather than to Jewish people. In my entire career I have never referred to Jewish people, Jewish ethnicity or race!!!

However, since Israel presents itself as ‘the Jewish state’, we must be entitled to elaborate on Jewish identity, Jewish ideology and Jewish politics.

I understand your concerns, I know exactly where you come from and I also appreciate your immense contribution to the discourse. However, as an artist and a writer i am somehow compelled to share my truth with others. I am sure that your realise that it is Jewish ideology and culture that stops Israelis from jumping on the OS [one state] wagon. Even the Jewish left stops short of doing so.

I somehow pretty sure that you know it yourself.

With great respect
Gilad

From: Ali Abunimah
November 30, 2010 at 5:16 pm

Dear Gilad, I appreciate your note. However I did not hear it quite like that and I am not sure that others did and my fear is that what you said can lead not to enlightenment, but to encouraging discrimination of deepening prejudices. I doubt that is your intent, but it is what could be the result. What you describe as "Jewish" might perhaps be more accurately described as "Zionist," - and then we might find grounds for a lot of agreement - but that is a longer discussion perhaps we’ll have a chance to have in person another time. Of course you have the right to speak your mind, and you always do!
Best
Ali

From: Gilad Atzmon
November 30, 2010 at 7:11 pm

Dear Ali thanks so much for taking the time… i will be very short. In my I writing differentiate between Jews (the people), Judaism (the religion) and Jewishness (the ideology). I ve never ever spoken about Jews (the people), I hardly speak about Judaism but restrict myself to a certain interpretation of it , yet, i am very critical of Jewish ideology, politics and identity.

In Germany, i spoke about Jewish Ideology and culture. Didn’t say a word about Jews, Jewish people, Jewish ethnicity or Jewish race. I just do not do it.

It is unfortunately a fact that Universalism and reconciliation are foreign to Jewish ideology for Jewish Ideology is tribal and defined by negation.

I do not agree that Jewishness (ideology) is ‘Zionism’. Zionism is indeed one manifestation of ‘Jewishness’. I won’t exhaust you with it, I am about to publish a book about it.

However, as you know, Zionism is not a living discourse in Israel. Zionism is a diaspora discourse. Both Ilan myself and a few other millions were not educated as Zionists ( Jews awaiting transformation) but as Sabras (the ‘success fruits’ of Zionism). We were the post revolutionary entities. Hence the attack on ‘Zionism’ can hardly touch Israelis (and in fact it doesn’t).

I believe that this understanding is crucial for the success of our project. I believe that we must understand what we are up against.

I was very excited to hear both you and Ilan. You are both incredible in what you are doing. However, I understand now that you probably do not approve my approach tactically.

You may be right about it, but as you know, i operate totally alone. I am not part of any movement. I am totally independent. I perform every night, I make each of my concerts into a rally for Palestine and the right of return. I take full responsibility for everything I say. And i also pay the price when there is a price to pay :)

I hope to meet once, not before too long, and elaborate on these issues. I believe that they are crucial

Peace and tx for your attention
Gilad

From: Gilad Atzmon
December 1, 2010 at 9:18 pm

do not have any plans to bother you with it… however, here is a new article by Uri Avneri… it elaborates on the issue you raised yesterday ..Jewish identity/ zionism..you may want to check the last 3 para’..

Peace G
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16445

The conclusion

Firstly, the transcript shows that the quote Atzmon first attributed to me on Facebook is fabricated. I never wrote those words.

Secondly, the claim that I "coached" Atzmon on how to "hide his anti-Semitism" is a pure fabrication by the Jewish Agency’s Avi Mayer.

Thirdly, the actual words I wrote that Atzmon selectively quotes in his blog were a response to his statement: "I am sure that your realise that it is Jewish ideology and culture that stops Israelis from jumping on the OS [one state] wagon. Even the Jewish left stops short of doing so."

It is in direct response to his assertion that I wrote: "What you describe as ‘Jewish’ might perhaps be more accurately described as "Zionist," - and then we might find grounds for a lot of agreement."

That’s a position I obviously stand by: it is Zionism, not Judaism or Jewishness, that is incompatible with the possibility of a single, democratic unified state.

While I gave Atzmon the benefit of the doubt at the time when I said it might not be his intent to foster prejudice, closer attention to his work convinced me that, indeed, his goal is to do precisely that. That is why I was pleased to sign, along with many other people I respect, the March 2012 statement on the racism and anti-Semitism in Atzmon’s work.

By fabricating words to attribute to me and selectively quoting my words, Atzmon hopes to implicate me in his racism.
 By latching on to his baseless allegations, anti-Palestinian propagandists hope to smear me as "anti-Semitic." They hope to claim that my well-known, crystal clear public stance against all forms of racism, including Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and Zionism, shared by many colleagues in this movement, is contradicted in private.

But as the the full exchange of messages shows, I repeated in private what I said to the Stuttgart audience in public: that Atzmon’s targeting of Jews fosters prejudice.
This was consistent with the public stance I took as far back as 2001 regarding Israel Shamir, emphasizing the importance of making no space for racism in the Palestinian rights movement. It is a position I will always defend.

For the record: It has been claimed – apparently because my name appears first in an alphabetical list – that I was the initiator of the March 2012 statement regarding Atzmon’s work.

Although I would have been proud to claim that credit, unfortunately I cannot. Nonetheless, when asked to sign, I did so without hesitation.