{"id":34710,"date":"2011-09-25T09:48:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T09:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=34710"},"modified":"2011-09-29T06:59:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T06:59:02","slug":"goldberg-vs-mearsheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=34710","title":{"rendered":"Goldberg vs. Mearsheimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk September 25, 2011<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Professor John Mearsheimer is subject to a Zionist-trans-Atlantic-attack for supporting my latest book\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wandering-Who-Gilad-Atzmon\/dp\/1846948754\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1315251947&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The Wandering Who<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Earlier this year John Mearsheimer, the highly respected international relations theorist and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, wrote the\u00a0following preliminary front matter for my book:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u00a0<strong>\u2018Gilad Atzmon has written a fascinating and provocative book on Jewish identity in the modern world.\u00a0He shows how assimilation and liberalism are making it increasingly difficult for Jews in the Diaspora to maintain a powerful sense of their &#8216;Jewishness.&#8217; Panicked Jewish leaders, he argues, have turned to Zionism (blind loyalty to Israel) and scaremongering (the threat of another Holocaust) to keep the tribe united and distinct from the surrounding goyim. As Atzmon\u2019s own case demonstrates, this strategy is not working and is causing many Jews great anguish.\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>The Wandering Who?<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0should be widely read by Jews and non-Jews alike.\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It seems as if the Zio-cons on both sides of the pond are now in a state of panic &#8212; In an obviously orchestrated attack, the\u00a0 Zionist mouthpiece\u00a0 The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/world-news\/55168\/mearsheimer-backs-book-antisemite\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Jewish Chronicle<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span>of London, \u00a0the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hurryupharry.org\/2006\/10\/20\/weve-been-nominated\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Islamophobic Award<\/strong> <\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">winning\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0\u2018<\/span><\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/hurryupharry.org\/2011\/09\/19\/atzmons-literary-agents-john-mearsheimer-recommends-wandering-who\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Harry\u2019s Place\u2019<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>and the ex-Israeli concentration camp guard\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2011\/09\/john-mearsheimer-endorses-a-hitler-apologist-and-holocaust-revisionist\/245518\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Jeffrey Goldberg<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">* , all launched a typical Hasbara smear &amp; intimidation\u00a0 campaign, in which they labeled both Professor Mearsheimer and myself anti Semites. I was also called\u00a0a \u2018neo Nazi\u2019, a \u2018Hitler apologist,\u2019 a \u2018Holocaust denier\u2019 and a \u2018hatemonger\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/prison_guard-goldberg.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34713\" title=\"Prison guard Goldberg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/prison_guard-goldberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">To be honest, it is somewhat amusing that an ex concentration camp\u00a0guard\u00a0like Goldberg should label me a \u2018Hitler apologist\u2019 or a \u00a0\u2018Holocaust denier\u2019: after all, since Goldberg is an ardent pro-war Zionist who openly and enthusiastically supports a Jews-only, racist, expansionist state, it is clear that he is actually the one who is an advocate of a distinctly Nazi-like ideology and practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In addition, I learned from Goldberg\u00a0that<strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/adamholland.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/john-mearsheimer-supports-anti-semitic.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Adam Holland<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u00a0(yet another notorious Zionist zealot), also cannot quite believe that Professor\u2019 Mearsheimer would endorse my book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Adam Holland wrote:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI had trouble believing that a distinguished professor at one of the world&#8217;s greatest universities would link himself to a hatemonger like Atzmon. So I sent Professor Mearsheimer an email quoting the blurb and asking him to verify its accuracy.\u00a0 I also gave him an opportunity to amend it or add to it.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what he ( Mearsheimer)\u00a0wrote back:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;The blurb below is the one I wrote for \u2018The Wandering who\u2019 and I have no reason to amend it or embellish it, as it accurately reflects my view of the book.&#8221; John J. Mearsheimer<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What is clear to the rest of us is that our Zionist detractors are fighting a lost battle. I really wonder what they hope to achieve: after all, those who have taken the time to actually read my work know very well that there is no hatred, no anti Semitism, and no racism in my entire body of work. Instead, I believe that truth is a dynamic process &#8212;\u00a0I believe in the power of reason and in free debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If Jeffrey Goldberg has any dignity left at all, then he should start again &#8212; He should apologise to Professor Mearsheimer, myself, the Palestinians, and to humanity.\u00a0\u00a0He would do better to also try to present an argument, and if he actually has anything to say, he would be best advised to then learn how to argue and encounter in debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>You can now order\u00a0Gilad Atzmon&#8217;s New Book\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wandering-Who-Gilad-Atzmon\/dp\/1846948754\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1312891740&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Wandering-Who-Jewish-Identity-Politics\/dp\/1846948754\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1312891884&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">*\u00a0 In the light of Goldberg\u2019s smears on both myself and Professor Mearsheimer, it is worth bearing in mind that Jeffrey Goldberg\u00a0decided to make Aliya when he was eighteen: he left America for Israel, joined the IDF and served as a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffreygoldberg.net\/books\/prisoners\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">prison guard<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span>in an Israeli concentration camp during the First Intifada.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/goldberg-vs-mearsheimer-by-gilad-atzmon.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof John Mearsheimer has been attacked for supporting Gilad Atzmon\u2019s latest. However, the underlying hypocracy behind these attacks is revealed by one of those leading the smear campaign. Gilad Atzmon explains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34710"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34930,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34710\/revisions\/34930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}