Gilad
Atzmon versus the London
Trots: background by Israel
Shamir
Background to Sex and
Politics by Gilad Atzmon
Absolutely brilliant and
challenging essay of Gilad
Atzmon on
www.gilad.co.uk . Gilad
takes up the tools of modern
philosophical discourse (he
is a Wittengensteinian
scholar) to explain our
position: why we are against
domination by Judaic spirit.
He resurrects Otto Weininger
and starts where ordinary
anti-zionists finish. Should
be read and enjoyed for
daring somersaults of
thought.
This is a
talk he gave in Bookmarks,
London’s Marxist bookshop;
while outside, a group of
Jews picketed and demanded
to shut him up. This was
absolutely expected - Jews,
that is people who consider
themselves as first of all
'Jews', should be as
horrified by Gilad as a male
chauvinist by a Loretta
Bobbitt. They can't argue
their case, they should shut
him up - or surrender to his
faultless logic. A funny
thing is that were
antizionist Jews who came
out to fight Atzmon and
petition the managers to
cancel. On the other hand,
it is also logical. If Gilad
were to speak in a Park Lane
club, some conservative
Jews, maybe even a lord
would demand its
cancellation. If he were to
speak to American
businessmen, they would sick
a Foxman on him, or rather
on a premises owner. As
Gilad was speaking in a
Marxist bookshop, they sent
antizionist Jews. Thus these
protesters revealed their
most important inner quality
- they felt they weren't
antizionists of Jewish
origin, but representatives
of Jewry within the
antizionist Left.
We
experienced it for a long
time that we have this fifth
column within our movement,
and now this column
materialised and made
visible: they signed their
names under the Web petition
against Gilad Atzmon and
Paul Eisen
http://www.sd-il.com/politics/statements/signLetter.php,
the whole lot from the US,
England, Israel etc; mainly
members of Jews For or Jews
Against separatist
organisations (why we never
had Whites Against
Apartheid?).
This list
should be studied, for such
an exposure is valuable. It
contains Abe Weizfeld, a
self-confessing Jewish
nationalist from Canada, who
describes himself as
‘second-generation survivor’
and runs a one-man Jewish
People Liberation
Organisation.
He mainly fights
Palestinians for ever
referring to their
tormentors as ‘Jews’. Ahmad
Abouali from Nablus wrote
about him: “The problem with
Abraham is not just him
being a Jewish nationalist,
rather he is a person with
lots of hatred & anger
towards the "others" for
mistreating the Jews who
allowed himself,
unknowingly, to become a
mouthpiece of Zionists.”
There is
a name of Deborah Maccoby,
who received fulsome
treatment in Gilad’s funny
essay The Protocols of the
Elders of London <
http://www.israelshamir.net/friends/Contributor6.htm
> She was fitfully described
by Joachim Martillo:
"She is the daughter of Hyam
Maccoby, the exact Zionist
counterpart of the
Hitler's Professors. Deborah
Maccoby is a victim of her
father's perverted ideas,
which are the Ashkenazi
counterpart of German
proto-Nazi and Nazi
scholarship. One could even
say that Deborah Maccoby
grew up in a completely
unrepentant Nazi household."
There is a liar
Ronald
Rance, read about him in Not
Cricket
http://www.israelshamir.net/english/No_Cricket.htm .
An
American Mitchell Plitnick,
who justified mass murder of
Palestinian Christians ,
read in Chicago Powwow,
http://home.mindspring.com/~fontenelles/shamir12.htm
There is
Tony Greenstein, a dumb
British Trot, read
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/togethernet/message/17344
and
http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2005/06/gilad-atzmon-tony-greenstein-debate.html
But full
description of other Leftist
Sons and Daughters of Abe
Foxman can wait.
Naturally, it is not an
ethnic or racial split, for
by these criteria Gilad is
as much a Jew as any one of
his opponents. I may quote a
good email by our friend
Miriam Reik, a very good
person of no nonsense in New
York, who refused to
sign the petition. On the
other hand, the list
contains some Gentile
followers, such as Sue
Blackwell who makes
decisions on the basis of
Jews-for-peace advice, as
she admits in her blog: "I
have now had a chance to
take a closer look at this
site and consult Jewish
friends on their views of
it." (http://www.sue.be/pal/) .
It is not strange that, with
such guidance, her
initiative to boycott Israel
in British universities
dismally failed.
It is
hardly a question of
religion as these picketers
are irreligious. Indeed, it
is a question of spirit, the
Judaic spirit we find at the
basis of Zionism.
Gilad and
Paul were attacked by the
leftie Jews ostensibly for
their non-orthodox attitude
to the holocaust narrative.
Ostensibly, for their
rejection of the Judaic
paradigm is much deeper than
this shibboleth of ADL
presupposes. Gilad correctly
stated that ‘holocaust
denier’ is but a Zionist
term. There is no need for
us to argue ‘facts’ as our
opponents are wont. I
forwarded recently a few
texts convincingly arguing
that this concentration of
attention on Jewish deaths
is racist, sick, damaging
for all including Jews.
Antizionists are aware of
words of the French Jewish
filmmaker Claude Lanzmann:
“whoever said 'shoah'
(holocaust), will say 'tsagal'
(Israeli Army)”. His words
“If Shoah is important,
Christ is not important”
should ring an alarm for
Christians and Muslims among
us.
Anyway,
their picket miserably
failed; and the British
socialists and antizionists
did not give in to the
blackmail. This is a very
good sign of weather change
and a visible proof that the
Left is not brain-dead.
Gilad and
Paul made a lot of good by
bringing out the woodworm
before it ate up the house.
Read more
about this background in
Mary Rizzo’s blog
peacepalestine.blogspot.com
