tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post7317676011991199655..comments2024-03-01T08:19:54.547+00:00Comments on BobFromBrockley: Gilad Atzmon and the SWP: a brief chronologybobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-69129065345401856042022-12-26T01:41:37.409+00:002022-12-26T01:41:37.409+00:00Unknown's comment was not anti-Semitic in the ...Unknown's comment was not anti-Semitic in the least. Norman Finkelstein and Gilad Atzmon are indeed highly critical of Jews and their methods despite being Jewish themselves. An earlier "self-hating Jew" Jesus Christ did the same. And Jews themselves congratulate themselves on their prominence this centuryLisa Brewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07545357596235440665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-66587175196921399962022-11-24T09:13:15.599+00:002022-11-24T09:13:15.599+00:00Gilad Atzmon is a great humanist.Gilad Atzmon is a great humanist.Lisa Brewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07545357596235440665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-45704259600369774712018-12-22T16:08:47.947+00:002018-12-22T16:08:47.947+00:00Very glad that Seymour's politics dramatically...Very glad that Seymour's politics dramatically improved once he left the SWP.WhiteDwarfStarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18429495994674889025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-8476447090547317702013-01-26T20:29:35.469+00:002013-01-26T20:29:35.469+00:00I'll leave Unknown's racist comment, so pe...I'll leave Unknown's racist comment, so people can see what kind of antisemitic scum defend Atzmon. <br /><br />Daggi, you're right. What I meant is the specific statements on Atzmon's antisemitism were removed from the website, while the puffery remained. I keep meaning to tidy up and hyperlink this post. I probably ought to before Socialist Worker's archives get pulled by some disgruntled expellee!bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-39322402634580732302013-01-19T15:45:03.399+00:002013-01-19T15:45:03.399+00:00All power to the likes of Gilad Atzmon and Norman ...All power to the likes of Gilad Atzmon and Norman Finkelstein who, their ethnicities notwithstanding, tell the world exactly how it is in this 'century of the Jew'Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15008119286185656504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-82697158813235669542013-01-18T22:41:40.365+00:002013-01-18T22:41:40.365+00:00It's disingenous - or wrong - to give the impr...It's disingenous - or wrong - to give the impression that the SWP have removed all mentions of Atzmon from their website.<br /><br />See http://www.google.com/cse?cx=004844233931487912402%3Abgler05m4zw&ie=UTF-8&q=atzmon&sa=Search+SWP+sites&siteurl=www.socialistworker.co.uk%2F&ref=&ss=3278j2436654j8#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=atzmon&gsc.page=1<br /><br />and find a load of links to raving articles about him in Socialist Worker, Socialist Review, etc.dagginoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-13466177495708508922011-10-07T17:56:58.059+01:002011-10-07T17:56:58.059+01:00Atzmon seems to have got more mainstream coverage ...Atzmon seems to have got more mainstream coverage in the USA than here.<br /><br />Atzmon's humour seems to me to be juvenile jeering. "Swindler's List" is one of his chapter titles - I'm cracking up.Rosiehttp://www.rosiebell.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-33407739348284574702011-10-06T18:29:25.935+01:002011-10-06T18:29:25.935+01:00The way to confirm or, er, defirm that is to read ...The way to confirm or, er, defirm that is to read through the stuff written about him by the establishment eg Guardian. I might not find the time...<br /><br />I always thought his most winning quality was his GSOH - I'm a sucker for that. I watched the screen animation he did of certain anti-Zionists with some guilty pleasure. But Rosie, your piece made me see it with different eyes. His sense of humour is actually a bit lame.Fleshhttp://fleshisgrass.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-57163817954560177902011-10-05T18:57:23.782+01:002011-10-05T18:57:23.782+01:00I would guess his rise is due to his being a forme...I would guess his rise is due to his being a former Israeli soldier, so giving him the same credibility as a Vietnam vet. That's only a guess though.Rosiehttp://www.rosiebell.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-132860854669539162011-10-05T13:51:10.709+01:002011-10-05T13:51:10.709+01:00This is great - anything similar for the *mainstre...This is great - anything similar for the *mainstreaming* of Atzmon? Where were his breaks, and who helped him along? Clearly Zero books is the most recent. There's also the Guardian and the Scotsman.<br /><br />I tend to think that anti-Zionists (Jewish or otherwise) helped Atzmon types along by repetitively talking of Zionists in the same ways as Nazis used to refer to Jews e.g. mystical powers, malevolence, leeches, murderers etc. I'd say they softened things up for him, eroded our collective defences against antisemitism. But is there something more to his rise?Fleshnoreply@blogger.com