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J-BIG VS. P-SMALL

NOVANEWS GILAD ATZMON By Gilad Atzmon A poorly-written but still revealing briefingwas published a few days ago by J-BIG. J-BIG may sound like an Israeli penis enlargement clinic but is in fact an acronym for Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods  -  a Jews Only political organisation set up to promote Jewish interests amongst Palestinian solidarity in general and the BDS movement in particular. The briefing was apparently published in order to “help BDS campaigners to defy the accusation of antisemitsm” and to explain “how the charge of antisemitism applies (actually) to Zionism itself.” It doesn’t take long for an intelligent person to grasp that Zionism is fuelled by anti-Semitsm. In fact, early Zionists were candid enough on occasions to admit that the enemies of the Jews may actuall...
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It proves beyond doubt that Ali Abunimah & Co. never read my work or understood any of my ideas.

NOVANEWS I guess that some of our Palestinian activists may have to self-reflect. Those who believe in one democratic state would be well advised to engage debate and endorse the notions of tolerance, pluralism and integrity. Let us all leave Talmudic Herem to Israel and its syanaim. To Shun or Bury the Hatchet? The Case of Gilad Atzmon by BLAKE ALCOTT Panel at Cooper Union NYC led by Anne-Marie Slaughter, 28 September 2006: Tony Judt:  I just… I’d just like to say one very quick thing about [the difficulty of getting anything critical of Israel into the mainstream media]. When I submitted an article about the Israeli Lobby debate — that Mearsheimer and Walt kicked off — to a very well known American, North American, newspaper [NY Times], I was asked by the editorial directors would I min...
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Anti-Semitism: what it is and is not

NOVANEWS By Alan Hart “An anti-Semite used to be a person who disliked Jews. Now it is a person who Jews dislike “ Those are the words of my dear Jewish friend, Nazi (Auschwitz) holocaust survivor Dr Hajo Myer. They are taken from page 179 of his magnificent book, An Ethical Tradition Betrayed: The End of Judaism (published in 2007). Hajo was making a point in passing which had been provoked in his mind by an incident that happened in the Netherlands where he lives. Gretta Duisenberg, the wife of the former European Central Bank president, Wim Duisenberg, hoisted a Palestinian flag at her home as a protest against Israel’s actions in the occupied territories. Her Jewish neighbours saw to it that their accusation that she was anti-Semitic went viral, and a Jewish lawyer not only sought to p...
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Holocaust Day Backfires

NOVANEWS By Gilad Atzmon The UK Jewish Lobby is in a state of panic - the Holocaust Memorial Day boomerangs. If anything it turns the floodlight on the deeply problematic  inclinations that are sadly inherent to Jewish political culture and collectivism. Last weekend it became clear that in the light of the crimes that are committed by the Jewish State in the name of the Jewish People, many Brits find it somehow difficult to genuinely empathise with Jewish suffering. If anything, it is the other way around, more and more people expect the Jews and their State to become more empathic. The day before Holocaust Memorial Day, MP David Ward expressed his dismay with the lack of Jewish empathy. He wrote on his blog: “I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persec...
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The Left Gate Getting Crowded

NOVANEWS by Ariadna Theokopoulos [Note: This is a slightly edited version of a post in BOLDFACE NEWS. Primarily some typos were corrected and new ones were inserted.]  “Mirror on the Lefty Wall,   Who’s the ‘anti’-est of them all?”  Many writers have exposed diverse aspects of the gatekeeping of the Left, of those who call themselves “progressives” and describe their position as anti-racism, anti-bigotry, anti-imperialism and anti-zionism and, need I even add, anti-semitism. Arguably no one has done a more comprehensive job of exposing the wide spectrum of manifestations of the progressive gatekeepers than Gilad Atzmon, with justifiable emphasis on the hypocrisy of their professed anti-zionism, for which he nicknamed them “anti-zionist zionists” (AZZs).  He has also shown how they operate ...
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ANTI-SLAVERY CAMPAIGN INTERVIEW SERIES. RICHARD FORER

NOVANEWS GILAD ATZMON   Richard Forer is a former AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) member with ultra-Orthodox relatives living in Israel. He is the author of Breakthrough: Transforming Fear Into Compassion - A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict, which is available at Amazon. Recently, he was a member of an Inter Faith Peace Builders delegation that visited the Gaza Strip from November 5 to November 11, 2012. To invite Richard for speaking engagements, book signings or interviews, please contact him at rich_forer@yahoo.com. His website is www.richardforer.com Yago: Recently you spoke at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) about your book, Breakthrough. Transforming Fear into Compassion – A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict. You shared your p...
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THANKS GOD FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY

NOVANEWS By Gilad Atzmon   So the Goyim can learn first hand about the vile impact of Jewish Power.  So the Goyim grasp once and for all that their democratically elected politicians better keep their thoughts to themselves. So the Goyim accept once and for all the primacy of Jewish suffering. So the Goyim can turn a blind eye to all those Shoa inflicted by the Jewish State,Stalin’s Jews and Ziocons. So we remember never to forget to ask the most crucial and appropriate questions: 1. why is Jewish history an endless chain of Holocausts? 2. Can the Jews liberate themselves and the rest of us of their past? 3. Can we transform the Holocaust into a universal message against racism, oppression  and discrimination? 4. Can the Jewish State follow such a universal message? Can the so-c...
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The Stakes

NOVANEWS China Mieville: Members of the SWP must understand what is at stake in the crisis rocking our organization. Not only is there already a steady outflow of members resigning in disgust at this farrago and its handling by the leadership, but now other organizations of the left are becoming hesitant about working with us, and in some cases are openly boycotting and censuring us. This is a call to members to stay and fight. It is also to urge that we do so without illusions about the nature of the fight that we face. Many of us have argued strongly that catastrophic errors of principle and process on the part of the leadership have taken us to this. But even those who – I firmly believe wrongly – disagree about this must recognise the situation we are in. This has rapidly also become a...