{"id":37892,"date":"2011-11-16T17:04:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T17:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=37892"},"modified":"2011-11-18T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T16:05:31","slug":"zionist-bad-press-is-all-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=37892","title":{"rendered":"Zionist Bad Press is All You Need"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk November 16, 2011<\/h1>\n

It looks like the Zionists and their AZZ (anti-Zionist Zionists) allies are losing the battle. The more desperate they are to stop \u2018The Wandering Who\u2019 and myself, the more they manage to do the complete opposite. The book is now a best seller and its message has gone viral.<\/h5>\n
So far every attempt to smear the book and myself has backfired. It started in mid-September with veteran\u00a0Israeli concentration camp-guard Geoffrey Goldberg insisting that professor John Mearsheimer should admit that he was\u00a0endorsing\u00a0a \u2018Hitler apologist\u2019 and an \u2018anti-Semitic\u2019\u00a0book.\u00a0 But Mearsheimer refused to bow. On the contrary, not only did he reinforce his praise for the book(1), in\u00a0a masterpiece of superb writing<\/span><\/a>, he also exposed\u00a0Goldberg\u2019s clumsy and deceitful hasbara\u00a0tactics.<\/h5>\n
On the very same day that Goldberg launched his attack in the USA, here in the UK the notorious Zionist mouthpiece the Jewish Chronicle (JC) together with pro-war, Neocon, and thoroughly Islamophobic Harry\u2019s Place (HP)\u00a0 joined forces with Britain\u2019s once-progressive Guardian. The\u00a0Guardian<\/span><\/a>\u00a0has already grovelled before the\u00a0Zionists and labelled me as an \u2018anti Semite\u2019. Why? Because I dared to discuss the \u2018Jewish Lobby\u2019 and criticise \u2018Jewish Marxism\u2019.\u00a0 It\u2019s clear that, for the Guardian, Jewish politics whether it be\u00a0Israeli lobbying<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0tribal Marxism<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is quite simply\u00a0 beyond examination, discussion and criticism.\u00a0But still, it was\u00a0a rather foolish move by the Guardian because within less than 48\u00a0hours the\u00a0<\/span>\u2018Guardian\u2019s new dangerous cult\u2019<\/span><\/a>\u00a0had been exposed\u00a0by one of the most admired reporters on Israel-Palestine – Jonathan Cook. Cook\u2019s article spread like wildfire and, within hours, it had appeared on every dissident outlet around the world.<\/h5>\n
The Guardian has lost a lot of support recently. Its betrayal\u00a0of Wikileaks and Assange was a clear sign that something was\u00a0deeply\u00a0rotten with the UK\u2018s once \u2018progressive\u2019 paper.\u00a0I guess that The Guardian\u2019s outrageous attack on myself (as well as on Counterpunch Magazine and Alison Weir) was just one more nail in its coffin. But fortunately for us all, The JC \u2018s \/Guardian\u2019s\u00a0 assault, translated into immediate and massive\u00a0book sales\u00a0that took even my publisher and myself by surprise. Mind you, it had already begun to dawn on us that bad Zionist press was worth its weight in gold.<\/h5>\n
I suppose it was around this time that the tribal cheerleaders began to realise that they might have a bit of a problem. All their attempts to stop the book had failed but this did not lead them to draw the necessary conclusion. Instead of making any attempt to critically and intellectually engage with the text, they decided to bring out the big guns. Two leading Zionist \u2018celebrities\u2019 were schlepped out to do battle –\u00a0the infamous Abe Foxman and\u00a0Alan Dershowitz.\u00a0These two caricatures were quick to take off the gloves. However,\u00a0they too failed to realise that, this time around, they were taking on someone who has earned a reputation\u00a0for not pulling his punches.<\/h5>\n
Notoriously deficient intellectually (as well as being a\u00a0<\/span>plagiarist<\/span><\/a>), Dershowitz fell\u00a0into the same trap as Goldberg, The Guardian and The JC. Instead of trying to dismantle the book and its message by means of deconstruction, he decided to try to bully two of America\u2019s most distinguished intellectuals\u00a0 –\u00a0 Richard Falk and John Mearsheimer, both of whom were amongst the first to endorse \u2018The Wandering Who\u2019.\u00a0<\/h5>\n
But soon it became clear that the tide has changed.\u00a0 No one took any notice of the Zionist bully. Mearsheimer didn\u2019t even bother to respond to Dershowitz\u2019 drivel and Falk dismissed the Zionist \u2018celebrity\u2019\u00a0smear\u00a0as\u00a0defamatory polemic<\/span><\/a>. If Dershowitz had one drop of dignity in him, which I doubt, he would have done the decent thing and just faded away. But as it happens neither Dersohwitz nor his allies have an ounce of self-respect in their systems. Interestingly, this lack of self-respect and dignity, which stops any form of critical self-reflection, is symptomatic of the whole Jewish identity political discourse.\u00a0It is precisely this failure to learn from past mistakes that makes Jewish politics so dangerous \u2013 particularly for Jews.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/h5>\n
If Dershowitz and his ilk\u00a0were\u00a0half as clever as they think they are, they would have paused awhile to reflect on their failures.\u00a0 But instead, they just go on with their endlessly futile power games \u2013 only to find out that their influence is steadily withering away.\u00a0<\/h5>\n
Driven by biblical, vengeful enthusiasm, my detractors thought that they could\u00a0instead\u00a0bring my international jazz career to an end. But destroying my music career was never going to be easy. To\u00a0start with,\u00a0I\u2019m good at what I do and I have a strong fan base which, totally familiar with my thoughts, supports both me and my\u00a0convictions. So it\u2019s obvious that Jewish lobbies mounting pressure on music festivals is not going to much serve the Jewish cause. If anything, it will prove once again that Jewish identity politics is not only dangerous to our foreign policy, it is also dangerous to our cultural life.<\/h5>\n
In spite of the fact that not a single performance of mine has ever been cancelled due to pressure, my detractors still will not give up. Ahead of my concert in Goettingen Jazz Festival last Saturday, the local Jewish community, together with the Anti Deutsche, an Israeli hasbara mouthpiece, tried to pressure the Festival organisers.\u00a0 But the Festival didn\u2019t surrender- its Art Director insisted that no one would interfere with his artistic decisions – not even the Goettingen Jewish community. The Festival looked into all the cherry-picked, out-of-context and sometimes forged quotes provided to them by the Jewish community, and concluded that \u2018Gilad was not an anti Semite\u2019.\u00a0 But the Jewish community still didn\u2019t give up and within a day or two, the news had spread out of Goettingen, generating some very bad publicity for the Jewish community all over Germany. This clear, Israeli-inspired and crude attempt to intervene with German cultural life has, in fact, bought me many more fans in Germany. The concert sold out and many more people in Germany are now aware of the fact that one ex-Israeli jazzman openly equates Israeli ethno-centric, racist, expansionist ideology with Nazi politics. Should I thank the Goettingen Jewish community for their intensive PR campaign? Yes, I should and yes do. Yet again, it became clear that Jewish bad press is all I needed.<\/h5>\n
In the last few days the Zionist Lobby here is putting pressure on\u00a0<\/span>\u2018Raise Your Banners<\/span><\/a>\u2019, a legendary UK Folk festival. They want Gilad Atzmon to be dropped from the program. Just like Goettingen\u2019s Jewish community, the Zionists here insist on interfering with British cultural life and unfortunately, not in a good way.\u00a0<\/h5>\n
I wonder how cultured people in Britain will react once they learn that an Neo-Con, and Award Winning Islamophobic Harry\u2019s Place is poking it\u2019s ‘collective’ nose into their folk culture by campaigning against one of Britain most popular\u00a0 Jazz artist and a humanist who is endorsed by some of the greatest intellects of our time. Let me tell you, this will not make our \u2018Zionist friends\u2019 very popular.\u00a0<\/h5>\n
But I suppose that some Jews in Germany in general and Goettingen in particular were\u00a0also\u00a0not too happy with these developments imposed on them by their Zionist brothers and sisters. Five days before the Goettingen concert, I learned that some representatives of the local Liberal Jewish community asked to meet me ahead of my concert in an attempt to reach\u00a0a peaceful and harmonious solution to this saga.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0\u00a0liberal Jews\u00a0basically wanted to express their disgust at the actions taken by their fellow Jews against the Festival and myself. Always believing n dialogue, I welcomed the approach.\u00a0By the time I was in a packed hall and on stage in front of the most\u00a0<\/span>supportive audience ever<\/span><\/a>, it was clear that some elements within Goettingen Jewish community had made the grave mistake of acting against me and against their local community.<\/h5>\n
Jewish Diaspora organisations futile dedication to my destruction is both revealing and symptomatic. Like the Jewish State itself, they\u00a0 cannot see the consequences of their actions.<\/h5>\n
The Israelis, the Dershowitzes, the JC, J-BIG, IJAN and\u00a0HP, all are blind to their\u00a0growing estrangement from the rest of humanity. As they bully and smear, they end up shouting in the echo chamber of their own cyber\u00a0shtettles. It doesn\u2019t look good, but,\u00a0this is the harsh reality\u00a0of that same Zionist collective psychosis which I scrutinize in The Wandering Who.<\/h5>\n
So, it looks like my detractors are doing very well indeed in exposing every possible negative aspect of Jewish Identity Politics. At each and every step, they demonstrate aggression, hysteria and\u00a0 Pre-Traumatic Stress symptoms and yet, there is one thing they will never manage to do. They will never stop me. Because Zionist Bad Press Is All I Need.<\/h5>\n
How do I know this? Well by now and for a decade, I have won every battle and, to be honest and I even learned to enjoy it.<\/h5>\n

The Wandering Who-A Study on Zionist Hysteria , available on\u00a0\u00a0Amazon.com\u00a0<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Amazon.co.uk<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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