Email sent by Greenstein to his buddies to join the campaign to dissociate MAP from Gilad Atzmon

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:59:18 +0000
From: tonygreenstein@yahoo.com
Subject: Letter to MAP re Atzmon jazz concert
To: tonygreenstein@yahoo.com

A number of us have agreed to send a letter to Medical Aid for Palestinians concerning a benefit concert which Gilad Atzmon is playing tonight for them.
It is not intended that this letter will be publicised but that it should show the depth of feeling of people concerning someone who is clearly anti-Semitic.
The phrase 'opponents of Zionism' rather than 'anti-Zionists' has been used so that those who are non-Zionists can feel able to sign, as some have.
If you are happy to have your signature added, can you please just reply back saying that you agree.
I should add that the feedback we have got from MAP already is that they are very sympathetic to this and this is really intended to show them the depth of peoples' feeling. Atzmon is now openly consorting with people like Michel Renouf, an open holocaust denier and co-ordinator of a support campaign for fellow hd'ers like Irving and Ernst Zundel who come into conflict with the law.

best
Tony Greenstein

Actual letter sent to MAP

>>Dear MAP,

Re: Gilad Atzmon Gig - Thursday April 30th

We write as both supporters of the Palestinians and opponents of Zionism. We all admire and respect the work Medical Aid for Palestine which has done so much to ease the suffering of the Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli state.

We therefore understand your need to put on fundraising and benefit concerts. However it is with regret that we have to write to you about the Gilad Atzmon gig at the Concert 606 Club this Thursday 30th April in support of MAP.

Accusations of anti-Semitism, or in the case of Jewish opponents of Zionism 'self-hatred' are the standard fare of supporters of the Israeli state. We therefore do not use the term lightly when we say that Gilad Atzmon is without doubt anti-Semitic. We don't doubt that Atzmon supports the Palestinians, but he blames their plight not on Zionism but on Jews per se.

If we were to document each and every anti-Semitic comment by Atzmon it would fill a large book. But the following comments should stand as an example of what we say. In his essay 'on anti-Semitism' he wrote that:

'we must begin to take the accusation that the Jewish people are trying to control the world very seriously…. I would suggest that perhaps we should face it once and for all: the Jews were responsible for the killing of Jesus who, by the way, was himself a Palestinian Jew.'
http://www.gilad.co.uk/html%20files/onanti.html

In another essay, 'the Jew-spot' he writes that:
'The J's are the ultimate chameleons, they can be whatever they like as long as it serves as some expedient. As soon as you criticise their expansionist militant national beliefs (Zionism) you hurt them as a race (Semites).' http://www.gilad.co.uk/html%20files/jspot.html

In one of a number of articles on the economic crisis Atzmon spoke, in relation to an article in the Observer by John Reynolds, of the need for 'spiritual dejudification' of the City of London.http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2008/10/atzmon-eats-humble-pie-for-suggesting.html After the threat of a libel action, Atzmon apologised.

The dispossession of the Palestinians and the theft of their land can be directly traced back to the rise of anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th Century. Throughout its history Zionism and anti-Semitism have been like Siamese twins. The idea that anti-Semitism offers any benefits or advantages to Palestinians today is absurd.

The association between Medical Aid for Palestine and Gilad Atzmon, whilst it may bring some short-term financial advantages can only damage you in the long-term. We are not asking that you cancel the gig on Thursday as clearly that is impracticable. However we would seriously ask you to consider not having Gilad Atzmon to play in fundraisers for MAP again. We are sure there must be anti-racist musicians of greater renown who would be willing to host a concern in aid of MAP.

With best wishes,