Comments on: John Lydon and PiL Defy Israel Boycott http://blog.z-word.com/2010/07/john-lydon-and-pil-defy-israel-boycott/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 24 May 2012 04:07:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Roger Waters: Comfortably Numbskull at Z-Word Blog http://blog.z-word.com/2010/07/john-lydon-and-pil-defy-israel-boycott/#comment-16667 Roger Waters: Comfortably Numbskull at Z-Word Blog Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:50:36 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1661#comment-16667 [...] sends. I will say that it is shameful. Perhaps John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon - a man who gloriously told the Israel boycotters to “f**k off” before playing Tel Aviv - was right after [...] […] sends. I will say that it is shameful. Perhaps John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon - a man who gloriously told the Israel boycotters to “f**k off” before playing Tel Aviv - was right after […]

]]> By: J6ON http://blog.z-word.com/2010/07/john-lydon-and-pil-defy-israel-boycott/#comment-15373 J6ON Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:07:01 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1661#comment-15373 John Lydon in Tel Aviv doing what he promised to do: http://junesixon.blogsport.de/2010/09/05/john-lydon-in-tel-aviv-august-31-2010/ John Lydon in Tel Aviv doing what he promised to do:
http://junesixon.blogsport.de/2010/09/05/john-lydon-in-tel-aviv-august-31-2010/

]]> By: Ehud http://blog.z-word.com/2010/07/john-lydon-and-pil-defy-israel-boycott/#comment-13531 Ehud Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:42:28 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1661#comment-13531 Looks like its takes time but at the end of the day Gilad Atzmon real motives are exposed, Its about time to stop promoting not only his mental views, but most his LOW musical skills, as he made a career from mixing them together. An article retracted SocialistWorker.org editor Alan Maass comments on a recent article. July 14, 2010 ON JULY 13, SocialistWorker.org published an interview with jazz musician and anti-Zionist writer Gilad Atzmon. The interview took up Atzmon's childhood in Israel and his growing awareness of the oppression of Palestinians, as well as his ideas on music and art. Since the interview's publication, we have learned of many allegations that Atzmon has made not just highly inflammatory, but anti-Semitic statements about Jews, be they supporters or opponents of the state of Israel--and that he has associations with deniers of the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews. The evidence for these serious charges is damning. We knew that Atzmon was a controversial figure among opponents of Israel when we ran our article, but not the full extent of these allegations. And needless to say, there is no trace of such ideas in his interview with SocialistWorker.org, or it never would have been published. Nevertheless, we believe that our Web site, which is committed to the liberation of the Palestinian people and to the struggle against anti-Semitism, should not have published the interview without any reference to the controversy over someone who could make the comments and advance the ideas that he has--whatever his motives or reasoning. We have therefore withdrawn the article from our site. We invite our readers to comment by e-mail to views@socialistworker.org. Looks like its takes time but at the end of the day Gilad Atzmon real motives are exposed, Its about time to stop promoting not only his mental views, but most his LOW musical skills, as he made a career from mixing them together.

An article retracted
SocialistWorker.org editor Alan Maass comments on a recent article.

July 14, 2010

ON JULY 13, SocialistWorker.org published an interview with jazz musician and anti-Zionist writer Gilad Atzmon. The interview took up Atzmon’s childhood in Israel and his growing awareness of the oppression of Palestinians, as well as his ideas on music and art.

Since the interview’s publication, we have learned of many allegations that Atzmon has made not just highly inflammatory, but anti-Semitic statements about Jews, be they supporters or opponents of the state of Israel–and that he has associations with deniers of the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews. The evidence for these serious charges is damning.

We knew that Atzmon was a controversial figure among opponents of Israel when we ran our article, but not the full extent of these allegations. And needless to say, there is no trace of such ideas in his interview with SocialistWorker.org, or it never would have been published.

Nevertheless, we believe that our Web site, which is committed to the liberation of the Palestinian people and to the struggle against anti-Semitism, should not have published the interview without any reference to the controversy over someone who could make the comments and advance the ideas that he has–whatever his motives or reasoning. We have therefore withdrawn the article from our site. We invite our readers to comment by e-mail to views@socialistworker.org.

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