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In May 2005 the [[Board of Deputies of British Jews]] issued a dossier alleging widespread [[antisemitism]] at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS) in London, including this quote from a talk delivered by Atzmon: "I'm not going to say whether it is right or not to burn down a synagogue, I can see that it is a rational act."<ref name="ges2004">Polly Curtis, [http://education.guardian.co.uk/racism/story/0,,1481647,00.html Soas faces action over alleged anti-semitism], ''[[The Guardian]]'', May 12, 2004.</ref> Atzmon responded in a letter to ''[[The Observer]]'' that he did not "justify any form of violence against Jews, Jewish interests or any innocent people." He explained the context of his comment as "debating the question of rationality of anti-semitism. I claimed that since Israel presents itself as the 'state of the Jewish people', and bearing in mind the atrocities committed by the Jewish state against the Palestinians, any form of anti-Jewish activity may be seen as political retaliation. This does not make it right."<ref>[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1468961,00.html Observer Letters to the Editor], ''[[The Guardian]]'', April 24, 2005.</ref> Atzmon alleges that in 2006 the Board of Deputies exerted "enormous political pressure" to try to cancel his "London debut at the prestigious Pizza On The Park jazz club."<ref>[http://www.gilad.co.uk/html%20files/BOD.html Surviving the Board of Deputies], October 23, 2006 at Gilad Atzmon web site.</ref>
In May 2005 the [[Board of Deputies of British Jews]] issued a dossier alleging widespread [[antisemitism]] at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS) in London, including this quote from a talk delivered by Atzmon: "I'm not going to say whether it is right or not to burn down a synagogue, I can see that it is a rational act."<ref name="ges2004">Polly Curtis, [http://education.guardian.co.uk/racism/story/0,,1481647,00.html Soas faces action over alleged anti-semitism], ''[[The Guardian]]'', May 12, 2004.</ref> Atzmon responded in a letter to ''[[The Observer]]'' that he did not "justify any form of violence against Jews, Jewish interests or any innocent people." He explained the context of his comment as "debating the question of rationality of anti-semitism. I claimed that since Israel presents itself as the 'state of the Jewish people', and bearing in mind the atrocities committed by the Jewish state against the Palestinians, any form of anti-Jewish activity may be seen as political retaliation. This does not make it right."<ref>[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1468961,00.html Observer Letters to the Editor], ''[[The Guardian]]'', April 24, 2005.</ref> Atzmon alleges that in 2006 the Board of Deputies exerted "enormous political pressure" to try to cancel his "London debut at the prestigious Pizza On The Park jazz club."<ref>[http://www.gilad.co.uk/html%20files/BOD.html Surviving the Board of Deputies], October 23, 2006 at Gilad Atzmon web site.</ref>


In June 2005 [[David Aaronovitch]] in ''[[The Times]]'' criticized the [[Socialist Workers Party (Britain)|Socialist Workers Party]] (SWP) for inviting Atzmon to speak at their "Marxism 2005" annual event. He described Atzmon’s controversial statements accusing American Jews of trying to control the world and his support for the antisemitic writer [[Israel Shamir]]. He also questioned Atzmon's support for the [[Jewish]] director of Britain’s [[Deir Yassin Remembered]], [[Paul Eisen]], who questioned the existence of Nazi gas chambers and championed the perspective of [[Ernest Zundel]], author of "The Hitler we Loved and Why".<ref> David Aaronvitch, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article538076.ece How did the far Left manage to slip into bed with the Jew-hating Right?], [[The Times]], June 28, 2005.</ref> In defense of the invitation the SWP argued: “The SWP does not believe that Gilad Atzmon is a Holocaust denier or racist. However, while defending Gilad’s right to play and speak on public platforms, that in no way means we endorse all of Gilad’s views. We think that some of the formulations on his website might encourage his readers to feel that he is blurring the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti Zionism. In fact we have publicly challenged and argued against those of his ideas we disagree with.”<ref>[http://www.swp.org.uk/gilad.php Gilad Atzmon and Marxism 2005], [http://swp.org Socialist Workers Party web site], June 21, 2005.</ref>
In June 2005 [[David Aaronovitch]] in ''[[The Times]]'' criticized the [[Socialist Workers Party (Britain)|Socialist Workers Party]] (SWP) for inviting Atzmon to speak at their "Marxism 2005" annual event. He described Atzmon’s controversial statements accusing American Jews of trying to control the world and his support for the author and activist [[Israel Shamir]]. He also questioned Atzmon's support for the [[Jewish]] director of Britain’s [[Deir Yassin Remembered]], [[Paul Eisen]], who questioned the existence of Nazi gas chambers and championed the perspective of [[Ernest Zundel]], author of "The Hitler we Loved and Why".<ref> David Aaronvitch, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article538076.ece How did the far Left manage to slip into bed with the Jew-hating Right?], [[The Times]], June 28, 2005.</ref> In defense of the invitation the SWP argued: “The SWP does not believe that Gilad Atzmon is a Holocaust denier or racist. However, while defending Gilad’s right to play and speak on public platforms, that in no way means we endorse all of Gilad’s views. We think that some of the formulations on his website might encourage his readers to feel that he is blurring the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti Zionism. In fact we have publicly challenged and argued against those of his ideas we disagree with.”<ref>[http://www.swp.org.uk/gilad.php Gilad Atzmon and Marxism 2005], [http://swp.org Socialist Workers Party web site], June 21, 2005.</ref>


In June 2005 [[Jews Against Zionism]] accused Atzmon of antisemitism, in part because allegedly he "spends much of his time denouncing anti-Zionist Jews who do not, like him, dissociate entirely from their Jewish background,"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?AId=38147&ATypeId=1&search=true2&srchstr=atzmon%20&srchtxt=1&srchhead=1&srchauthor=1&srchsandp=1&scsrch=0
In June 2005 [[Jews Against Zionism]] accused Atzmon of antisemitism, in part because allegedly he "spends much of his time denouncing anti-Zionist Jews who do not, like him, dissociate entirely from their Jewish background,"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?AId=38147&ATypeId=1&search=true2&srchstr=atzmon%20&srchtxt=1&srchhead=1&srchauthor=1&srchsandp=1&scsrch=0

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Gilad Atzmon
גלעד עצמון
Gilad Atzmon
Born
Gilad Atzmon

(1963-06-09) June 9, 1963 (age 61)
NationalityIsraeli
EducationRubin Academy of Music
OccupationMusician
Known forMusician, political activist
Websitehttp://www.gilad.co.uk/

Gilad Atzmon (Hebrew: גלעד עצמון, born June 9, 1963) is a jazz musician, author and anti-Zionist activist who was born in Israel and currently lives in London.

He was born a secular Israeli Jew in Tel Aviv, and trained at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem.[1] His service in the Israeli military convinced him Israel had become a militarized state controlled by religious extremists.[2] In 1994,[3] Atzmon emigrated from Israel to London, where he studied philosophy.[1]

Music

Instruments and style

While Atzmon's main instrument is the alto saxophone, he also plays soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones and clarinet, sol, zurna and flute.[1] Atzmon's jazz style has been described as bebop/hard bop, with forays into free jazz and swing, and seemingly inspired by John Coltrane and Miles Davis.[3] Atzmon sometimes plays the alto and soprano sax simultaneously.[3]

Atzmon's works have also explored the music of the Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe.[4]

Atzmon has fused his roles as a political artist and musician by creating the character Artie Fishel, on the album Artie Fishel & the Promised Band.[5] With traditional klezmer music, dialogue, and jokes, the album features Atzmon on saxophone, John Turville on keys and electronics, Yaron Stavi on bass, and Asaf Sirkis on drums.[6][7] Other artists include vocalist Guillermo Rozenthuler, Koby Israelite on vocals and accordion, and Ovidiu Fratila on violin.[8]

Gary Keenan, of CanPalNet, a Palestinian support group, describes the album as "…much more than great music and cutting humour (reminiscent at times of the Marx Brothers and BBC Radio's “Goon Show.”) Ingeniously, by employing jazz as a metaphor, Gilad delivers a completely original and scathing indictment of Zionism and its creation, Israel."[9]

Collaborations and groups

Atzmon is a member of the veteran punk rock band The Blockheads, having joined when Ian Dury was still performing with them.[1] He has also recorded and performed with Shane McGowan, Robbie Williams, Sinéad O'Connor, Robert Wyatt and Paul McCartney.[1][4]

Atzmon has collaborated, recorded and performed with musicians from all around the world, including the Palestinian singer, Reem Kelani, Tunisian singer and oud player Dhafer Youssef, violinist Marcel Mamaliga, accordion player Romano Viazzani, bassist Yaron Stavi, violinist and trumpet-violin player, Dumitru Ovidiu Fratila, and Guillermo Rozenthuler on vocals.[3]

Atzmon founded the Orient House Ensemble band in London, and has toured all over the world with them. in the 1990s and is currently touring with them.[4] The band includes Asaf Sirkis on Drums, Yaron Stavi on Bass and Frank Harrison on keyboard.[4] It has produced five albums in eight years.[10]

Atzmon is on the creative panel of the Global Music Foundation,[1] a non-profit organization formed in December 2004 which runs residential educational and performance workshops and events in different countries around the world.[11], and also offers personal workshops to students.[12]

Reviews

Atzmon and his ensemble have received favorable reviews from Hi-Fi World, Financial Times, The Scotsman, The Guardian, Birmingham Post, The Sunday Times and The Independent.[13] Reviews of his 2007 album “Refuge” included:

Manchester Evening News: The individuality of the music is extraordinary. No one is more willing to serve his music with raw political passion, and that curious cantor-like tone on clarinet is immediately arresting, like Artie Shaw writhing in his death throes.[14]
EjazzNews: "For sheer improvisational fireworks, quirky humour and genre-defying invention, one will be hard-pressed to find a bandleader as unique as Gilad Atzmon." ("EjazzNews," September 2008)[15]
BBC: "...the OHE is finding its voice in an increasingly subtle blend of East and West, that’s brutal and beautiful."[10]

In November 2008 Chris Searle launched his book Forward Groove: Jazz and the Real World from Louis Armstrong to Gilad Atzmon at the London Jazz Festival. It "chronicles the development of jazz and its great exponents" alongside social developments and political protest movements. The reviewer noted that “the torch continues to be carried by contemporary musicians such as Israeli-born alto saxman Gilad Atzmon who dreams of a free and united Palestine.”[16]

Awards

Atzmon was the recipient of the HMV Top Dog Award at the Birmingham International Jazz Festival in 1996–1998.[3]

Novels

Atzmon is also a novelist whose books have been published in 22 languages. His first novel A Guide to the Perplexed, published in 2001, takes place in a near future where Israel has ceased to exist. Atzmon “excoriates the commercialization of the Holocaust" and “argues that the Holocaust is invoked as a kind of reflexive propaganda designed to shield the Zionist state from responsibility for any transgression against Palestinians.” His book has been described as a “vividly written satire, infused with a ribald sense of humor and an unsparing critique of the incendiary political cauldron of the Mideast.”[2] The original Hebrew version was a candidate for Israel's 2003 Geffen Award for science fiction.[17]

His second novel was My One and Only Love published in 2005.

Politics

Atzmon's views are controversial and have evoked much criticism, including allegations of antisemitism.

Views

Atzmon is an anti-Zionist who critiques Jewish identity issues and supports the Palestinian Right of Return as well as the establishment of a single state in Israel/Palestine.[18] He is a signatory to the "Palestinians are the Priority Petition" which states “full and unconditional support of the Palestinian people is a condition sine qua non for activists to adopt.”[19]

Publications in which Atzmon's political writings have appeared include CounterPunch, Al Jazeera, Uruknet, Middle East On Line, Dissident Voice. Many of his published papers are available on his personal website.[20]

He is a co-founder of and contributor to the web site Palestine Think Tank, established in May 2008. It publishes articles and offers videos promoting the belief that "Zionism is wrong. Zionism is racism. For Zionism to happen, it means the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of the land of Palestine." Other contributors include Khalid Amayreh and Carlos Latuff.[21]

In his 2003 CounterPunch piece "Collective Self-Deception: The Most Common Mistakes of Israelis" Atzmon details ten beliefs which he considers "grave, indeed fatal, mistakes." He differentiates Jews who have rejected these nationalist beliefs and "Israelis" who blindly accept "one of the most radically chauvinist worldviews" which he believes "turns the Israelis into an impossible candidate for any form of peaceful negotiation." He therefore proposes a gradual scheme of bans and boycotts. He recommends that states who "ban anti-Semitism, neo-Nazi propaganda and any other form of racist activity" should consider "adding Zionist activity to their list of prohibited activities."[22]

In 2005 some attendees of a German book reading Atzmon was hosting left in protest after he called the history of World War II and the Holocaust a "counterfiet" or "forgery" that was "initiated by Americans and Zionists.” He argued that there was "no forensic evidence" that the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust was the number 6,000,000.[23] Iranian PressTv reports that in 2008 an attorney for "Holocaust revisionist scholar" Ernst Zundel’s Holocaust Denial trial in Germany, herself was jailed for three and a half years for Holocaust denial, in part for quoting an article where Atzmon was quoted as making the same comments as at the 2005 book reading.[24]

In August 2006, Atzmon wrote that critics of Israel should stop equating Israel's acts to those of the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler because Israel's actions are worse. "To regard Hitler as the ultimate evil is nothing but surrendering to the Zio-centric discourse. To regard Hitler as the wickedest man and the Third Reich as the embodiment of evilness is to let Israel off the hook…" Citing Israel's summer 2006 bombing of Lebanon and 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict, Atzmon continued: "The Israelis demolish for the sake of demolishing. It is about time we internalize the fact that Israel and Zionism are the ultimate Evil with no comparison."[25] He further stated that in a comparison of ruthlessness between Nazi Germany and Israel, "…it is the Israelis who win the championship of ruthlessness and the reasons are obvious. Nazi Germany was a tyranny, Israel is a democracy led by a centre-left national unity government."[25]

Atzmon has accused "Israel, the Jewish state" of following the call of Moses in Deuteronomy 6:10 "to plunder, rob and steal," specifically from the "indigenous Palestinians of their land, cities, villages, fields, orchards and wells" for "over a century." Writing about the Jewish revolutionary Marxists of the "Bund" (the General Jewish Labor Union), he writes: "Bundists believe that instead of robbing Palestinians we should all get together and rob whoever is considered to be the rich, the wealthy and the strong in the name of working class revolution." Stating "Robbery and plunder doesn’t live in peace with a deep understanding of the notion of human equality" and citing his own youthful vengeance towards "wealthy goyim," Atzom further asserts: "The Jewish nationalist would rob Palestine in the name of the right of self-determination, the Jewish progressive is there to rob the ruling class and even international capital in the name of world working class revolution."[26]

In October 2008, Atzmon wrote an article intended to "disentangle the horrifying tribal plot that accidentally led towards the destruction of the American Empire and Western financial hegemony." He details various "Jewish tribal political operations" and concludes: "You may wonder at this stage whether I regard the credit crunch as a Zionist plot. In fact it is the opposite. It is actually a Zionist accident. The patient didn’t make it to the end. This Zionist accident is a glimpse into Political Zionism’s sinister agenda. This Zionist accident provides us with an opportunity to see that as far as misery is concerned, we are together with the Palestinians, the Iraqis and the Afghans. We share one enemy." He also writes: "It would be devastating to see innocent Jews being implicated collectively by the crimes committed by a very few tribal nationalist enthusiasts."[27]

Allegations of antisemitism

In May 2005 the Board of Deputies of British Jews issued a dossier alleging widespread antisemitism at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, including this quote from a talk delivered by Atzmon: "I'm not going to say whether it is right or not to burn down a synagogue, I can see that it is a rational act."[28] Atzmon responded in a letter to The Observer that he did not "justify any form of violence against Jews, Jewish interests or any innocent people." He explained the context of his comment as "debating the question of rationality of anti-semitism. I claimed that since Israel presents itself as the 'state of the Jewish people', and bearing in mind the atrocities committed by the Jewish state against the Palestinians, any form of anti-Jewish activity may be seen as political retaliation. This does not make it right."[29] Atzmon alleges that in 2006 the Board of Deputies exerted "enormous political pressure" to try to cancel his "London debut at the prestigious Pizza On The Park jazz club."[30]

In June 2005 David Aaronovitch in The Times criticized the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) for inviting Atzmon to speak at their "Marxism 2005" annual event. He described Atzmon’s controversial statements accusing American Jews of trying to control the world and his support for the author and activist Israel Shamir. He also questioned Atzmon's support for the Jewish director of Britain’s Deir Yassin Remembered, Paul Eisen, who questioned the existence of Nazi gas chambers and championed the perspective of Ernest Zundel, author of "The Hitler we Loved and Why".[31] In defense of the invitation the SWP argued: “The SWP does not believe that Gilad Atzmon is a Holocaust denier or racist. However, while defending Gilad’s right to play and speak on public platforms, that in no way means we endorse all of Gilad’s views. We think that some of the formulations on his website might encourage his readers to feel that he is blurring the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti Zionism. In fact we have publicly challenged and argued against those of his ideas we disagree with.”[32]

In June 2005 Jews Against Zionism accused Atzmon of antisemitism, in part because allegedly he "spends much of his time denouncing anti-Zionist Jews who do not, like him, dissociate entirely from their Jewish background,"[33] and of helping Israel because by "eliding the important distinction between Israel and Jews, is actually aiding the propaganda effort of the state he purports to oppose."[34] He has responded by describing his critics as being "crypto Zionist" and as "searching for essentiality," so that for them the "Holocaust is the new Jewish religion."[35]

In November 2006, academic David Hirsh, in an op-ed on The Guardian's Comment is Free website, listed some Atzmon quotes he characterized as antisemitic and accused Atzmon of "trying to lead an anti-semitic purge of the anti-Zionist movement and one that will ditch the formal anti-racism onto which some anti-Zionists still cling."[36] Atzmon, who was allowed to respond on the website, wrote that Hirsh's accusations were unproven or taken out of context. He continued: "Hirsh needs anti-semitism. The reason is simple, while Zionism, being an oppressive and expansionist ideology, is impossible to defend, anti-semitism is a racial crime and therefore easy to attack."[37]

The Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism (SCAA) has criticized the Swedish Social Democratic Party for inviting Atzmon to speak at a seminar on Iraq, the Palestinian territories and Afghanistan, which was held in Stockholm on March 18th, 2007. SCAA chairman Jesper Svartvik said Atzmon has worked to "legitimize the hatred of Jews" and urged the party to distance itself from the decision. However, Ulf Carmesund, international secretary of the Christian Social Democrats, rejected those allegations, saying: "Gilad Atzmon is himself a Jew, and when the Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism starts calling Jews anti-Semites there is a risk that they undermine the term anti-Semite and do the fight against anti-Semitism a disservice."[38]

Responses to allegations

Atzmon has explained his writing thus: "I write about things that I find while looking into myself. This is indeed very dangerous for people who try to promote some collective dogmatic and ethnic tribalism."[39]

Atzmon answers the various accusations against him at the “1001 Lies About Gilad Atzmon” page on his web site. There he responds to accusations of antisemitism by questioning the existence of antisemitism itself, writing: "Because Anti-Semite is an empty signifier, no one actually can be an Anti-Semite and this includes me of course. In short, you are either a racist which I am not or have an ideological disagreement with Zionism, which I have."[35] In an article entitled "Think Tribal, Speak Universal" Atzmon wrote: "Surely, the most effective way to confront a thinker is through open intellectual debate. But somehow, this is precisely what those who oppose me refuse to do. Instead, they employ various tactics aimed at silencing me."[40]

Oren Ben-Dor, who also grew up in Israel and now teaches at the School of Law, University of Southampton, UK, commented on a 2008 petition condemning what they labelled “the constant attempts to silence Gilad Atzmon.” In Ben-Dor's opinion: "All those who try to smother Gilad's endeavours, to distort his voice through vulgar associations and conventional clichés, and to utilize uncritically accepted conventional havens for thoughtlessness, do not really do justice to the intellectual game as far as Palestine is concerned."[41]

Discography

  • Refuge - Label: Enja - October 2007
  • Artie Fishel and the Promised Band - Label: WMD - September 2006
  • MusiK - Label: Enja - October 2004
  • Exile - Label: Enja - March 2004
  • Nostalgico - Label: Enja - January 2001
  • Gilad Atzmon &The Orient House Ensemble - Label: Enja - 2000
  • Juizz Muzic- Label: FruitBeard - 1999
  • Take it or Leave It - Label: Face Jazz - 1999
  • Spiel- Both Sides - Label: MCI - 1995
  • Spiel Acid Jazz Band- Label: MCI - 1995
  • Spiel- Label: In Acoustic&H.M. Acoustica - 1993

Books

  • A guide to the perplexed, English translation by Philip Simpson. London : Serpent's Tail, 2002. ISBN 1852428260
  • My one and only love. London : Saqi, 2005. ISBN 0863565077 (pbk.). ISBN 9780863565076 (pbk.)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Gilad Atzmon". People. Global Music Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
  2. ^ a b St. Clair, Jeffery (July 19, 2003). "You Must Leave Home, Again: Gilad Atzmon's "A Guide to the Perplexed"". CounterPunch. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Profile - Gilad Atzmon". Rainlore's World of Music. March 21, 2003. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
  4. ^ a b c d Atzmon, Gilad (2007). "GILAD ATZMON - MUSICIAN, COMPOSER, PRODUCER, EDUCATOR, WRITER". Gilad Atzmon. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
  5. ^ Shackleton, Kathryn (October 16, 2006). "Gilad Atzmon: Artie Fishel And The Promised Band". BBC. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
  6. ^ Atzmon, Gilad (2007). "ARTIE FISHEL & THE PROMISED BAND". Gilad Atzmon. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
  7. ^ Gilad Atzmon, Not Strictly Kosher, Jazzwise, January 17, 2007.
  8. ^ Mixing it feature, BBC Radio, October 6, 2006.
  9. ^ Keenan, Gary D. (November 28, 2006). "Gilad Atzmon a.k.a. Artie Fishel: Jazz as a Metaphor for Zionism". Ottowa, Canada: CanPalNet. Retrieved 2008-10-28. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  10. ^ a b Kathryn Shackleton, Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble, Refuge, BBC, October 1, 2007.
  11. ^ "About GMF". Global Music Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
  12. ^ Atzmon, Gilad (2007). "MUSIC EDUCATION". Gilad Atzmon. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
  13. ^ Gilad Atzmon web site.
  14. ^ Alan Brownlee, Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble - Refuge (Enja), Manchester Evening News, August 30, 2007.
  15. ^ John Stevenson, Gilad Atzmon liberates the Americans: Orient House Ensemble, Ronnie Scott’s London, August 30th 2008, EJazzNews.com], September 01, 2008.
  16. ^ Ian Soutar, Former head chronicles a passion for jazz and justice, Sheffield Telegraph, November 14, 2008.
  17. ^ "Locus online;The Geffen Awards". Retrieved 2007-01-24.
  18. ^ Mary Rizzo, The Gag Artists, Who's Afraid of Gilad Atzmon?, CounterPunch, June 17, 2005
  19. ^ Palestinians are the Priority, a petition at Gilad Atzmon’s web site.
  20. ^ Politiks at Gilad Atzmon web site.
  21. ^ About PalestineThinkTank.com page.
  22. ^ Gilad Atzmon, Collective Self-Deception, The Most Common Mistakes of Israelis, Counterpunch, August 28, 2003.
  23. ^ Evening full of dissonance, West-line, Source: Ruhr Nachrichten (Bochum), November 29, 2005. See German to English translation here
  24. ^ Holocaust revisionist's lawyer jailed, PressTv Iran, January 15, 2008.
  25. ^ a b Atzmon, Gilad (August 14, 2006). "Let's Admit It: It is Evilness for the Sake of Evilness". ArabNews. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
  26. ^ "Swindler's List — Zionist plunder and the Judaic Bible". www.redress.cc. 2008-04-05. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
  27. ^ "Gilad Atzmon - Credit Crunch or rather Zio Punch?". palestinethinktank.com. Retrieved 2008-10-14. {{cite web}}: Text "Palestine Think Tank" ignored (help)
  28. ^ Polly Curtis, Soas faces action over alleged anti-semitism, The Guardian, May 12, 2004.
  29. ^ Observer Letters to the Editor, The Guardian, April 24, 2005.
  30. ^ Surviving the Board of Deputies, October 23, 2006 at Gilad Atzmon web site.
  31. ^ David Aaronvitch, How did the far Left manage to slip into bed with the Jew-hating Right?, The Times, June 28, 2005.
  32. ^ Gilad Atzmon and Marxism 2005, Socialist Workers Party web site, June 21, 2005.
  33. ^ "The Jewish Chronicle". www.thejc.com. June 29, 2005. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
  34. ^ "Fri 17 June: No to Holocaust Denial at Bookmarks!". www.labournet.net. June 17, 2005. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
  35. ^ a b "Gilad Atzmon - 1001 Lies". www.gilad.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
  36. ^ David Hirsh, Openly embracing prejudice, The Guardian, November 30, 2006.
  37. ^ Gilad Atzmon, A Response to David Hirsh, The Guardian, December 12, 2006.
  38. ^ Social Democrats invited known anti-Semite to seminar, The Local, March 23, 2007.
  39. ^ "(DV) Atzmon: Think Tribal, Speak Universal". www.dissidentvoice.org. December 12, 2006. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
  40. ^ Think Tribal, Speak Universal December 12, 2006 at Gilad Atzmon web site.
  41. ^ Oren Ben-Dor, 'The Silencing of Gilad Atzmon', Counterpunch, March 15, 2008.

Official site

Interview with Atzmon

Reviews of Atzmon's music


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