Politics

NOVANEWS Council Summit Should Endorse Approach Based on Human Rights Obligations Faver Agyei (right), 32, comforts her friend Alima Mohamed, 22, at a camp in Tunisia near the Libyan border. Mohamed’s husband, also from Ghana, died along with 200 others after their ship capsized trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya on June 1, 2011. The EU talks a lot these days about promoting its values in the Middle East and North Africa. But when it comes to migrants and asylum seekers, those values are all too often thrown out the window. Judith Sunderland, senior Western Europe researcher (Brussels) - European Union (EU) heads of state meeting in Brussels later this week should put human rights at the heart of EU migration and asylum policy, Human Rights Wat...

NOVANEWS   by J. Bruce Campbell     Notice: This is an American home. 4th Amendment in effect. No warrant – no entry. No knock – no mercy. America is a violent country. It was founded in violence, in revolution against a violent England. It expanded to its present size in just over a century by violent conquest. During that period, eighteen northern states invaded and conquered eleven southern states in an aggression that killed over six hundred thousand Americans. Whole cities and towns in the South were burned down. Thirty-five years later, America invaded Cuba and the Philippine Islands and slaughtered a million and a half Filipinos, mostly civilians. Fifteen years later, America invaded Europe. Twenty-five years later, America invaded Europe again along with China, Nort...

NOVANEWS   FRIDAY, 17 JUNE 2011 and York Against War Invite Atzmon to Speak Despite Opposition Locally Atzmon Wants to Question Everything (especially the Holocaust) But Seeks Protection Through Censorship Unity FM is a Muslim radio station in Birmingham run by Sami Ibrahim. He’s phoned me for interviews on a number of occasions in the past, so it was no surprise when I got the following text message at just gone 1 pm: ‘Today on Unity FM GILAD ATZMON @ 5.00 PLEASE CALL AND ASK YOUR QUESTION Tel – 01217728892/07926843388 Or visit I therefore rang Sami up and let him know that I considered Atzmon an anti-Semite not an anti-Zionist. Sami was understanding and said he’d welcome my putting Atzmon on the spot. Indeed he even offered to give me first shot and to call me a...

NOVANEWS March 12, 2007 By Gilad Atzmon The short piece that follows has very little to do with Palestine, it is not about the starvation in Gaza, it tells nothing about Israeli road blocks, it is not about the right of return. It will have zero effect on Palestine or the enormous Palestinian suffering. It is about a tiny group of Jewish activists who made solidarity into an ongoing nightmare. This piece is written with some severe pangs of conscience. I wanted to believe that we would never have to get there. This small piece is dedicated in particular to Mr. Tony Greenstein, a Palestinian Solidarity activist who is engaged solely in smearing and throwing mud on other activists, especially intellectuals with some continental appetite. Two years ago, I had come a...

NOVANEWS The Rule of the Rulers Over the Resistance of the Ruled is Reality Politics never change. Domination is the name of the game. Government is not your friend, nor is it a benefit to your existence by Sartre Batr The enslavement of humanity is replete throughout history. The reason is simple. The nature of societies allows corrupt sociopaths and malicious methods of domination to rule. The chronicles of any era clearly documents that liberty is rare. Inherent Autonomy is the intrinsic nature of the human condition. However, in the eternal struggle to achieve individual freedom, governments operate as overseers in invented schemes to herd human beasts into inhuman subjugation. The rule of the rulers over the resistance of the ruled is reality. Nevertheless, not all people ar...

NOVANEWS An Open Letter to Secretary Shinseki General Eric K. Shinseki (US Army, Retired) Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Secretary: For two-and-a-half years, fellow Veterans in Los Angeles and around the country have repeatedly written you and respectfully requested that you make major changes at the Los Angeles National Veterans Home. You have completely ignored us and matters continue to get worse on your “watch.” Lest you’ve forgotten, President Obama was elected on a campaign pledge of “change.” It was presumed that he meant for the betterment and not the worst. We have consistently and respectfully requested that you make a regime change at the largest VA in the nation and terminate the following government employees under your supervision: D...

NOVANEWS Just a couple of things I noticed whilst browsing. Antony Lerman has a piece on Yale's decision to replace the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) with a more in-house Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA): When the axing of YIISA was announced, after Yale’s faculty review committee concluded that its research and publications were not of sufficiently high quality, the Yale authorities indicated at the time that they would find some other means to continue serious research on antisemitism at the university. In the stampede to condemn Yale, its critics either ignored this message or dismissed it. Now that it looks certain that a new venture, headed by a Yale faculty member with excellent scholarly credentials, is to be set up, I wo...

NOVANEWS Gilad Atzmon   On June 16 I was  guesting  with Palestinian activist, Sammi Ibrahem, on his radio show on  Unity FM, Birmingham. I was looking forward to meet Sammi, who is the man behind the invaluable   shoa.org.uk, a site dedicated to the Palestinian Holocaust. I believe that the radio program will be interesting to those of us involved in the cause, and the topics are, indeed serious : we spoke about Israel, Palestine, Zionism, Holocaust, Nakba, Kashmir, and more. The comical part of the talk however -- starring my stalker, Tony Greenstein -- starts around 19:51 and lasts  for about 7 minutes. Face The Nation - 16 June 2011 - Part 1 by Gilad Atzmon Face The Nation - 16 June 2011 - Part 2 by Gilad Atzmon ( Note : Also, I made a bit of a silly mistake in the  course...

NOVANEWS GILAD ATZMON   This is an old post of mine. I publish it again because I am about to delete my old site. Some of the Zionists and crypto Zionists caricatures mentioned in this piece  are still desperate to bring me down. But for some reason they are defeated time after time.  For more than ten years I have been writing about Israel, Zionism and Jewish identity. I am engaged in a process of deconstruction and critique of different Jewish texts, ideas, politics and practice. My intent is aiming towards some deeper realisation of what Zionism is. In my opinion, Zionism is one of the most dangerous political movements. It is a global operation that threatens world peace on a daily basis. I am delighted to say that my views are well distributed. My books are trans...

NOVANEWS   By:  GILAD ATZMON An old satirical post exposing the sayanim within our ranks. I re-publish it because I am about to delete my old website. However, it is pretty amusing to find out that most names listed below disappeared  from our discourse long time ago, Except my most dedicated internet stalker Tony Greenstein who is probably the most isolated human being on the 'Left' and beyond. The Protocols of the Elders Of London 9.11.2006 A document compiled by Gilad Atzmon   Introduction   In a very small segregated cyber shtetl somewhere in the north west side of yahoo(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/justpeaceuk/ ), a tiny cell of so-called ‘liberal’ Jews meets in the wee small hours. Night after night they are trying to save the Palestinian people from those who devo...