How Zionists Harass People
Who Expose Them
As funny as it may sound, Harry's Place -- the infamous Israeli propaganda website and Neocon outlet that rushed to advocate Blair’s criminal wars -- is now desperately insisting on mounting pressure on venues to stop me from spreading the necessary message about Israel and its lobbies.
Harry’s Place -- The Zionist mouthpiece website that has managed to collate no less than 157 entries on anti racist watchdog Islamophobia Watch -- blames me for being a racist. It is almost amusing.
I have now managed to get my hands on the document the Harry’s Place Hasbara website is spreading about me.
The PDF document can be found here.
I do believe that no one can do a better job exposing Zionist morbidity than Zionists themselves. With a clear intention to mislead, the Zionist outlet puts words in my mouth. For instance, Harry’s Place attributes the following meanings to me:
“Jews were responsible for their persecution by the Nazis”
“Jews try to control the world, as predicted by the Protocols of the Elders of Zion”
“Jews are inhuman and they are destroying the planet “
“Jews caused the Credit Crunch”
Clearly, these are neither my words nor my thoughts. These words have never appeared in any of my texts.
In my entire body of work -- I have never criticised Jews as a people or as a race. When I do refer to Jews who are complicit in war crimes, atrocities or fraud -- I always specify their names, and I indicate their exact role within the Zionist Jewish ideological spectrum . I never blame Jews collectively.
I do however, criticise Jewish ideology and culture, and I contend that we are all entitled to do so.
Hence, I am left wondering: why do Zionist activists lie about me? Why do they put words in my mouth? Indeed, if I am as bad as they suggest I am, why don’t they just let my own words resonate? Shouldn’t they just let my true words and convictions ‘bring me down?’
I guess that by now, they know that my own words are there to convey the devastating truth about Jewish nationalism, culture and ideology.
Last week I was scheduled by the Birmingham University Palestine Society to give a talk at the Drum Art Centre, entitled ‘Temporality within Jewish Culture’. Twenty four hours before the event, a Zionist campaign against me was launched with an email signed from Harry’s Place, which I add here:
From: habibi [mailto:habibi.harryblog@XXX.com]
Sent: 23 February 2011 14:07
I see The Drum will be hosting Gilad Atzmon tomorrow evening.
The attached pdf provides a small sample of the man's utterly reprehensible anti-Semitic views.
Why are you hosting a racist meeting?
Harry's Place / http://www.hurryupharry.org
Regards
Mukhtar Dar
Director of Arts
I really think that Mr. Dar sums it up succinctly for all of us when he states that “we are committed to social justice, equality and freedom of expression.”
And Harry’s Place too, promotes itself as believing in freedom of expression –It states boldly, at the top of its webpage : “Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.” Harry’s Place also opposes the Boycott against Israel on the grounds of freedom of speech.
So, if Harry’s Place campaigners had a drop of integrity in them, they should enthusiastically support my right to express myself -- But it seems that integrity and sophistication are not Zionist features.
I would suggest to the Zionist advocates at Harry’s Place that the British law offers many means to tackle any form of racial incitement, and racism in general. Therefore, if Harry’s Place, Jewish anti Zionists, or anyone else for that matter, should find even a single racist idea in my writing or in my public appearances, I recommend that they had better visit their local police station, and issue a formal complaint against me, for in Britain, racists and anti Semites are locked behind bars.
If Zionists are convinced that they have a case against me, they had better just get on with the job.
I can assure them that if they succeeded, they could probably silence me forever.
I wish them luck -- being one of the busiest artists in Europe, I could do with some time off.
Gilad Atzmon writes on political matters, social issues, Jewish identity and culture. His papers are published on very many press outlets around the world. Here is just a short list of his recent publications: The Guardian, Rebelion, The Daily Telegraph, Uprooted Palestinians, Veterans Today, Palestine Telegraph, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Aljazeera Magazine, Information Clearing House, Middle-East-Online, Palestine Chronicle, The People Voice, Redress, Shoa (The Palestinian Holocaust) and many more.
His new book is called “The Wandering Who?”
By Gilad Atzmon
