{"id":37990,"date":"2011-11-18T16:08:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T16:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=37990"},"modified":"2011-11-22T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T09:00:07","slug":"united-against-cultural-fascism-%e2%80%93-a-letter-to-every-cultured-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=37990","title":{"rendered":"United Against Cultural Fascism \u2013 A Letter to Every Cultured in the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk November 18, 2011<\/h2>\n

There was a time when Jewish politics and culture were associated with liberalism, human rights, pluralism and freedom of expression. Those days are clearly over. Nowadays, it is pretty much the opposite.<\/h5>\n
Here in Britain, Jewish nationalist lobbies are engaged in several kinds of repressive behaviour. Their practices include:\u00a0bullying<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and harassment,\u00a0disinformation<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0smear campaigns<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0<\/h5>\n
This kind of activity does not serve the Jewish community or its interests. In fact, it gives the Jewish community, as a whole, a thoroughly bad name.<\/h5>\n
Last week, American academic Norman Finkelstein and I were on the front of\u00a0the Jewish Chronicle<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(JC). We were presented as Public Jewish Enemies Number One. We were branded together with BNP leader and a racist Nick Griffin. This was obviously a clear outburst of Zionist hysteria.<\/h5>\n
This week, in an embarrassingly crude attempt to stop my new book\u00a0The Wandering Who<\/span><\/a>, the JC now appear to be launching an attack on music. Together with the Board of Deputies of British Jews and other\u00a0Jewish groups\u00a0they attempted to\u00a0pressure<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the British Arts Council to withdraw its funding from a music festival\u00a0I am playing at<\/span><\/a>.<\/h5>\n
To read the JC, click\u00a0here<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
\u00a0\"\"<\/a>What we see here is scarily similar to the experience of \u00a0<\/span>Jazz musicians<\/span><\/a>in Germany during the Nazi era. Astonishingly enough, it is Jewish representative bodies such as the Board of Deputies \u00a0that are actively engaging \u00a0in trying to restrict artistic expression. Apparently, some people out there, really drew the wrong lesson from that disturbing era.<\/h5>\n
Needless to say, they didn\u2019t get far. The Arts Council, stood by its principles of freedom of expression and in a\u00a0<\/span>statement<\/span><\/a>\u00a0responding to the JC’s demands, they suggested that The Arts Council\u00a0shouldn\u2019t “restrict an artist from expressing their views.” They stated that the council believes in funding events and artists that show\u00a0“a diverse view of world society\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Once again, their campaign had backfired.\u00a0<\/h5>\n
Of course, the JC wasn\u2019t at all happy. It appears to want to transform the British music scene, cultural gatherings and festivals into Stalinist enterprises and demands the right to dictate its own political agenda to the British public. The JC even went as far as to openly call for its subservient lobby-funded politicians to impose an \u201cimmediate sanction\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Reading the JC today, I wonder how long it will take before Ava Nagila becomes a compulsory part of our national musical curriculum.<\/h5>\n
This is the reality: The most radical exponents of the most vile form of Jewish racist and supremacist ideology are accusing me, an anti-racist campaigner, of being an anti-Semite.\u00a0Considering that I lead one of the most ethnically varied musical ensembles on this planet – this accusation is absurd, amusing or sad and probably all three.\u00a0\u00a0But here\u2019s the good news. On every possible front they are failing. No matter how much these Zionist supremacists convince themselves that I am the ultimate Jew-hater, they have failed to convince anyone else.<\/h5>\n
By bullying British cultural institutions and harassing artists in the name of the Jewish community, Jewish organizations are achieving nothing but the defamation of the whole of British Jewry.<\/h5>\n
So, to the Jewish Chronicle and the Board of Deputies of British Jews:\u00a0You are acting against openness, pluralism, freedom of expression and artistic freedom \u2013 probably the most precious values this country has. Perhaps it is worth bearing\u00a0this in mind.<\/h5>\n
All the best<\/h5>\n
Gilad Atzmon<\/h5>\n

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