I’m surprised that I even have to write to you about this. From memory you once wrote to me saying that you had no time for Atzmon yet here you are on a bill with him.
In case this is all strange to you, I am posting a link to my ‘Guide to Atzmon’
It is interesting that in Germany of all places Atzmon titles his talk History, Truth and Integrity because in his essay Truth, History and Integrity he writes that
‘If, for instance, the Nazis wanted the Jews out of their Reich (Judenrein – free of Jews), or even dead, as the Zionist narrative insists, how come they marched hundreds of thousands of them back into the Reich at the end of the war?’ [my emphasis – TG] ‘If the Nazis ran a death factory in Auschwitz-Birkenau, why would the Jewish prisoners join them at the end of the war? [my emphasis – TG] ‘We should ask for some conclusive historical evidence and arguments rather than follow a religious narrative…’ ‘Why were the Jews hated? Why did European people stand up against their next-door neighbours? Why are the Jews hated in the Middle East.’
When Atzmon talks about ‘freedom of speech’ he is not talking about the silencing of Palestinian voices vs Zionism, which as you will be aware, I tried to combat with the petition about the BBC coverage last year, but about holocaust denial. The above quote ‘if the Nazis ran a death factory in Auschwitz-Birkenau’ says everything about his real agenda.
I would urge you to think very carefully about this as it will only legitimise someone who actually is anti-Semitic. The fact that 99% of the times the Zionists label someone anti-Zionist as anti-Semitic doesn’t mean there aren’t some anti-Semites of the traditional variety around (albeit most of them, like the Norwegian bomber are mainly pro-Israel these days).
best
Tony Greenstein
On 27 Jul 2011, at 19:23,
Dr. Gabi Weber wrote:
Dear Mr. Greenstein
my name is Dr. Gabi Weber. I am the head of Cafe Palestine Freiburg and the main organizer of Freiburg Conference on September 11th.
Today I found out that the dirty war you are fighting in vain against Gilad Atzmon for years now, is spilling over to Germany.
One day after the conference was announced, your bad games started again. You try to bother my speakers and you even do not hesitate to spread your lies to our young Palestinian musician, Moamen Khatib. Probably you didn´t realise that you didn´t only send the text adressed to Moamen but also the correspondence you had concerning Moamen being “young and gullible”. It is really disgusting!
I know that it is not the first time that you try to jeopardize an event with Gilad Atzmon – whether it is supposed to happen in Germany, Switzerland or other countries. To reach your obvious “aim in life” you don´t hesitate to lie, to commit forgery, to take “quotes” out of their context and put them together in a wrong order and so on. I am also in posession of interesting documents that testify Mr. Greenstein´s criminal past.
Recently I learned that xxx tried to stop singer and musician Amal Murkus and the Palestinian delegation in London who organised the Palestinian event “From Al Tahrir to Jerusalem”. She tried to do a “counter-event” under the similar name as the “Al Tahrir”- event.
Having a lot of information about your sick “movement” I could respond to each of the false sentences xxx is writing to Moamen.
But I prefer to let you know that from now on, I will record and spread every single attempt from your side to destroy the conference.
Perhaps you didn´t realise by now. I am distributing all kinds of news about Palestine to thousands of adresses I have in my internet list. My newsletters are spread by others and this not only in Germany. What you should also know is, that I have hundreds of politicians and press adresses in my list. This means that – if I start to publish what is happening around the conference – many people and organisations will finally understand how the so-called “Palestinian solidarity movement” works. And I must admit that I detest the way of action that you dare to call “solidarity for Palestinians”.
I copied all my conference participants as well as other important people as addressee into this email. And I am asking each of them to inform me about any attempt to put pressure on them and to prevent them from joining the conference.
Below you find the email from Mrs. X to Moamen, the correspondence foregoing this mail and also Tony Greenstein´s mail to Ken O´Keefe.
The conference wants to disclose the elements that destroy open discourse. You couldn´t have done better to show everybody how necessary this conference is!
Dr. Gabi Weber
From: tony greenstein
To: ken_okeefe ; Kenneth O’Keefe ken.okeefe@alohapalestine.com>
27th July 19:38
Ken
I e-mailed you early this morning. I hope you got it.
Meanwhile I’ve been sent this message. What is going on? I understand that Atzmon’s ex-friend Mary Rizzo is involved but I know no more than that
Tony
From: Tony Greenstein
27th July 20:05
To: Gaby Weber
Dear Dr Weber,
It would seem that we have touched a raw nerve.
I know nothing of Moamen Khatib. I have no desire to destroy any conference, least of all that on Palestine. However I also do not wish the Palestine solidarity and anti-Zionist movements to be sullied by someone who is an out and out anti-Semite and now a holocaust denier. Atzmon’s primary contribution to the cause is to attack, not Zionists but Jewish anti-Zionists who he defines, by virtue of being Jewish, as Zionists. I think you are very aware of what I am talking about. If not then my Guide to Atzmon will help your understanding, important with someone who is a Doctor.
I think the extract below from ‘Truth History and Integrity’ by Atzmon speaks for itself whatever interpretation you put on it.
The open discourse that you say you don’t want to destroy has nothing to do with Palestine and everything to do with rehabilitation of those who presided over 12 years of fascism in Germany and who exterminated not only Jews, but Gypsies, Gays, Russians and the Disabled. Perhaps free speech for Nazis should be the title of your conference? The real issue is the silencing of Palestinian voices not neo-Nazis.
My past has nothing to do with any of this but all previous, minor convictions, a quarter of a century ago, are all spent. And defrauding bankers doesn’t seem to me much like a crime given they have defrauded everyone else but no doubt ‘justice for bankers’ and wankers is also one of your causes.
In Solidarity
Tony Greenstein
Truth, History, and Integrity
‘If, for instance, the Nazis wanted the Jews out of their Reich (Judenrein – free of Jews), or even dead, as the Zionist narrative insists, how come they marched hundreds of thousands of them back into the Reich at the end of the war?’ [my emphasis – TG] ‘If the Nazis ran a death factory in Auschwitz-Birkenau, why would the Jewish prisoners join them at the end of the war? [my emphasis – TG] ‘We should ask for some conclusive historical evidence and arguments rather than follow a religious narrative…’ ‘Why were the Jews hated? Why did European people stand up against their next-door neighbours? Why are the Jews hated in the Middle East.’
From: tony greenstein
To: ken_okeefe Sent: Wed, 27 July, 2011 20:07:49
Subject: Gabi Weber
It seems I was wrong and that you did indeed respond to my e-mail, but not to me!
I have just had a hysterical e-mail from Gabi Weber which tends to suggest that you are indeed aligned to Atzmon
tony greenstein
From: Gilad Atzmon
To: Dr. Gabi Weber
To tony greenstein
Sent: Thu, 28 July, 2011 11:03:52
Subject: Re: Stop bothering!!!!
Hello
I really thought that after so many years you would realise spreading all those lies about me, won’t get you anywhere. If anything, it really harms your career and this is indeed a great shame.
Being consumed in envy you clearly missed a great chance to become a world star.
As you may notice, people who are involved professionally in the music business are really careful not to badmouth each other.
It is time for you to become a pro. You certainly posses the musical talent. We are getting older, and as far as I am aware, you live once.
All the best
Gilad
On 28 Jul 2011, at 14:49, tony greenstein wrote:
Gilad Atzmon
The arrogance and malevolence of your post below amply demonstrates why you are a threat to the Palestine solidarity movement. You are worth your weight in gold to Mossad for your divisive effect.
Despite calling for debate on every aspect of the holocaust and WWII, when I challenged you on Unity FM in Birmingham recently you panicked and threatened to walk off the set if Sami Ibrahim allowed me to challenge you once more. http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2011/06/funny-thing-happened-today-as-unity-fm.html Your agenda is quite clear
Tony Greenstein
From: Gilad Atzmon
To: tony greenstein
Cc: Dr. Gabi Weber
Sent: Thu, 28 July, 2011 17:10:37
Subject: Re: Stop bothering!!!!
Greenstein, I hope that you yourself don’t believe the crap you write, because if you do, you certainly need a professional help.
Interestingly enough, with my academic qualification and my deep understanding of tribal psychosis, I may be the only person who could help you, and believe me, I do my best.
All you have to do, is to keep reading me as you do, and to look in the mirror (as you never do)
ATB
Gilad
On 28 Jul 2011, at 17:59,
tony greenstein wrote:
Atzmon
I certainly don’t need professional help to understgand what you write. A child of five could decipher the ‘deep meanings’.
Your ‘academic qualification’ and deep understanding of ‘tribal psychosis’ (is it a recognised WHO medical impairment?) cannot get you out of the fix you are in.
At least I am able to look in the mirror and see my reflection
Tony Greenstein
From: Gilad Atzmon
To: tony greenstein
Cc: Dr. Gabi Weber Sent: Thu, 28 July, 2011 18:43:33
Subject: Re: Stop bothering!!!!
You failed the test again,,, You do not need professional help to understand me (everybody does), it is yourself whom you don’t understand.
But as i said, i can help you.
Tell me when you are ready .. it will hurt but its worth it.
On 28 Jul 2011, at 21:25, tony greenstein wrote:
Gilad Atzmon
Thank you for your most recent e-mail. I can understand your concern regarding the Palestine festival in Germany. I have a suggestion for you. Given that you are widely believed to be a holocaust denier and that you politically associate with people like Israel Shamir and Paul Eisen, why don’t you pull out of the Conference in order that there can be no controversy over your appearance?
Surely you know that someone with your reputation, appearing in Germany of all places, on a platform which is apparently designed to oppose the silencing of Palestinian voices in the media, though it looks suspiciously like your real concern is the silencing of neo-Nazis like Ernst Zundel and others who wish to rewrite history, cannot possibly be of any assistance or support to the Palestinians or anti-Zionism?
Why don’t you prove that your purported concern and make a small sacrifice? As for the rest of your e-mail. It’s a sign of your overweening ego and arrogance that you really think you’re the one who sets others with tests. This is not the era of McCarthy.
I agree that most people, not everyone (unless your omnipresent) understand you for what you are, which is a gifted musician, albeit one who is not too careful about attributing the music he uses to those who wrote it, combined with a superficial bigot. It’s called the Bobby Fischer syndrome. Hence why you hide what you are saying beneath a dense undergrowth of pseudo academic prose. You actually don’t want people to understand the implications of what you write.
No one of course fully understands themselves but you demonstrate that you haven’t even begun that process with yourself. Hence why you try to impress people with your second hand observations, masquerading as important insights. The fact that a number of people flatter you whilst understanding barely a word of what you say, only increases your problems.
Accept your help? To what end? Helping you to come to terms with your massive ego and second-rate mind? I’m sorry but even the Good Samaritan would have walked away from that one.
But since you’ve come back for another dose of enlightenment, perhaps you could answer a simple question? Why, on 16th June, when I confronted you in a radio phone-in programme on Unity FM, http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-with-sammi-ibrahem-unity-fm.html with a few pertinent questions, did you throw a tantrum and issue an ultimatum that you would walk out if Sammi Ibrahem allowed me to put you on the spot again? You, the all-knowing brilliant intellect nearly had a heart attack when you were forced to respond to what were quite simple questions such as how does holocaust denial help the Palestinians? Or why you queried in ‘Truth, History & Integrity’ the existence of Auschwitz as a death camp?
Your outburst was recorded on the tape you so conveniently supplied, but I’d already worked it out on my blog and Sami Ibrahim has since confirmed it, saying he was stunned by your reaction but didn’t know what to do faced with your threatened walk-out. Result that as I was waiting for a second bite of the cherry I listened to Sami was saying there were no callers!
I also found it amusing, but not surprising, when you were asked a straight question on Unity FM, ‘do you accept the holocaust as a fact?’, that you responded you didn’t know if it occurred because you are not a historian. Do you really need to be a historian to know whether something as cataclysmic as the holocaust occurred? Do you need to be a historian to know if the Nakba occurred? Or whether there was a triangular slave trade between Africa, Britain and the Americas? Or the American War of Independence or the Armenian genocide? Your answer, or rather failure to answer, speaks volumes.
Your problem is very simple. You can’t come to terms with either your own stupidity or malevolence.
Tony Greenstein
From: Tony Greenstein
To: Ken O’Keefe
28th July 2011 23:57
Ken,
I have still not had a response from you as to why you will be speaking in Germany alongside someone who is a holocaust denier.
I also mentioned that I had been passed certain rumours regarding yourself. My initial reaction was to ignore them but then I recalled a strange e-mail I received from you at a time when an advert attacking the BBC for its coverage of the Mavi Marmara was being discussed. I ignored it because clearly the money had been raised for different purposes but it nonetheless struck me at the time as very strange.
But if you are prepared to give legitimacy to Gilad Atzmon, despite all he has written, then who knows what you are really thinking.
Tony Greenstein
From: Kenneth O’Keefe
To: tony greenstein <
Sent: Wed, 8 September, 2010 19:34:22
Subject: Re: Update BBC Ad
Aloha Tony,
Please consider the possibility of asking people if they would object to investing this money in www.BPC-World.co.uk. With that money we could pay people to produce an awesome critique of the program and market it so that it would reach a much bigger audience. I only say this because I believe in turning negatives into positives, this is a great chance to seriously blast the BBC and if this idea is of any interest I will spend the time to give more specifics.
Do you really take yourself seriously,,, do you really think that people who are “widely believed to be a holocaust denier” perform in Germany on regular basis?
Apperntly writing is just another gift you lack… can you try and say it in a single short paragraph? Unlike you, i don’t live on income support.. I am a busy man
On 29 Jul 2011, at 04:14,
tony greenstein wrote:
No need to shout. When I’m writing for the benefit of others then it is important to make one’s point.
I note that you fail to answer any questions but hey, who is surprised?
Being on income support and being busy are not incompatible.
And to develop your ‘mirror’ analogy even further, it would appear that like Caliban, you don’t seem to like what you see.
Give my love to Mary Rizzo
Tony Greenstein
From: Gilad Atzmon
To: tony greenstein
Cc: Dr. Gabi Weber
Sent: Fri, 29 July, 2011 8:25:25
Subject: Re: Stop bothering!!!!
I like it when you are short ..
If you want my attention, keep it short..good exercise for you..
you say,
Being on income support and being busy are not incompatible.
they actually are..
it is the all about the difference between being a failure and being a success story.
it also explains the lack of mirroring, the criminal record, the hate crimes against Jews and then your relentless hasbara tricks ..all documentd
Mr Greenstein, you are an exemplary case of tribal ugliness..
In fact We need you, you exhibit everything I say about tribalism and Zionist activism.
You ll read my book soon
I am also happy to send you a review copy in September
From: Dr. Gabi Weber
To: tony greenstein
Cc: Gilad Atzmon
Sent: Fri, 29 July, 2011 14:12:59
Subject: Re: Stop bothering!!!!
Hello Mr. Greenstein,
as physician, working with all kinds of patients for years now, I am used to many different symptoms, diseases, psychological disorders and so on. Fortunately until now I never before was involved in dirty games and tricks as I am experiencing in the emails you are sending for days now. Even the mentally sickest of my patients I ever had, was not as sick as you are!
And to say it clear – KEEP ME OUT OF YOUR MAD INTRIGUES!
My time is too precious to deal with people who are obviously full of hatred, only aiming at destroying other people´s lifes.
Really, I have pity for you. What kind of life must this be, to spend years over years by trying to demolish the career of a person and to see that all the efforts are leading to nothing? On the contrary, the person you try to destroy is getting more and more popular and successful. What a shame for you!
Your behaviour proves exactly, what is happening in the so-called Palestinian Solidarity Movement. We are infiltrated with dirty Hasbara, this is very clear.
Perhaps you should try to find something beautiful for your life? You could try to use your talents, which you certainly have but that you bury under tons of hate and negative energy. Imagine if you simply tried to take all this energy you need for the attempts to destroy Gilad Atzmon and did something positive with it. Perhaps we already would have a Palestinian State?????
As I told you in my last email, I am very attentive in what is happening around my Freiburg conference. In case I get any information of your ongoing attempt to bother my speakers I will start publicizing everything.
Best wishes
Dr. Gabi Weber
Am 29.07.2011 19:30,
schrieb tony greenstein:
Gabi Weber
I am not interested in your role as a doctor. Many people unfortunately get treated by quacks and other charlatans. Clearly your patients fit into that category.
For someone whose time is so precious you seem to do a lot of e-mailing but I’m trying to save your time by having Gilad Atzmon gracefully withdraw from the conference. To save face he could say that he has a conflict of interest being a patient of yours.
And then maybe you could consult a real doctor regarding your symptoms of paranoia
People like you, Mr. Greenstein, should be put in preventive custody! For your attempt to infamize Gilad Atzmon, who is one of the panelists of Freiburg Conference as well as the attempt to discredit the conference I will take you to court whenever you enter Germany, although being aware that I would not get a penny from you loosing the trial. You are the last person on this planet to tell me, who I am allowed to invite to any event I am planning. Sorry, Mr. Greenstein, you are not the one who I will ever ask for advice.
Dr. Gabi Weber On 29 Jul 2011, at 21:06,
tony greenstein wrote: How interesting ‘Dr’ Weber. I should be put in preventive custody. What an unfortunate phrase but there’s many a slip betwixt cup and lip . ‘Preventive Custody’ was of course the euphemism used for placing Gypsies and other ‘anti-socials’ in concentration camps by the Nazis. (C Browning – Origin of the Final Solution amongst others). Very few of course survived, though according to Atzmon they were probably holiday camps.
I guess it makes sense though. When I first heard of your conference I assumed that you were innocent and naive and didn’t know anything of Atzmon’s racist background. Now it would seem that not only were you aware but you share his opinion, indeed are in advance of them. Do you have any other gems to share with us? tony greenstein On 29 Jul 2011, at 21:16, tony greenstein wrote: Yes u send me a review copy of your book. I doubt any review will be favourable though. Ah yes, being on income support is a sign of criminality is it. Any more reactionary thoughts of the day? I seem to have succeeded very well in spreading the message about you! tony greenstein
From: Gilad Atzmon
To: tony greenstein Cc: Dr. Gabi Weber
Sent: Fri, 29 July, 2011 22:20:52
Subject: Re: Stop bothering!!!! Being on income support is a symptom of yourself being failure , the criminality is just another symptom.. And The failure of your relentless campaign against me is probably the ultimate symptom.And get guess what, you Don’t get because you are a failure .
From: Gilad Atzmon To: tony greenstein Sent: Fri, 29 July, 2011 22:55:25
Subject: Re: Atzmon’s Conference Organiser Comes Out in Her True Colours (Re: Stop bothering!!!!)
You do it again, projecting your fantasies on others.. However you are an anti social,, you are a shop lifter, credit card fraudster, vandal, a liar, a stalker ,, did I miss anything? On 29 Jul 2011 at 22:56, tony greenstein wrote: Gilad Atzmon Being judged by you a failure is a sign of success. It depends on your values, of which u would appear to have none. You talk of criminality but you are the biggest fraud of them all, and that is because you are dishonest politically. Robin Hood was no criminal but the Sheriff of Nottingham was. But the Sheriff made the law so it was Robin Hood who was the criminal legally, because the powerful make the law. But for u it is the Bund who were criminals for It is not going to work to Tony’le, you have managed to burn all bridges…
The only man who loves you is me because you prove everything I say… 29th July 23:10 Re: Atzmon’s Conference Organiser Comes Out in Her True Colours (Re: Stop bothering!!!!) …
From: tony greenstein [Chat now]
To: Gilad Atzmon just mad and getting madder
From: Gilad Atzmon To: tony greenstein
Sent: Fri, 29 July, 2011 23:20:00
Subject: Re: Stop bothering!!!!
Too long again remember, I am a busy man,,give it another go… A week with me ll make u into a mench From: tony greenstein [Chat now] Sent: 29th July 23:49 To: Gilad Atzmon not trying to eliminate inconvenient posts are we? learnt your trade well I see
From: Gilad Atzmon
To: tony greenstein Cc: Dr. Gabi Gabi Weber
Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 0:38:32
Subject: here is an offer I imagine anything is too long 4 you. Your brain is addled. Hence y u cannot answer a simple question re being a historian G: You are wrong, you simply get carried away, and i am not as sympathetic as you like me to be,,I really prefer to write a good paper then reading your endless ranting… However, here is an offer for you.. submit 10 questions. in a respectable format..
Short questions, in an orderly manner.. you can ask anything you like, Holocaust, Nakba , Shamir, my IDF history, all the things that concern you I will do the same, I will a From: Gilad Atzmon On 30 Jul 2011, at 00:56, tony greenstein wrote: there you go again. You assume that I am curious or concerned about your past. G: you are a coward, you blame me for not answering your ‘simple questions ‘ and then … run away.. this is why you are a failure… Tony,, this is why no one publishes you, not even your old friends… I know more than enough about you to know that you don’t give straight answers as you demonstrated with the response to a simple question on radio – did the holocaust occur. You could have said yes or no rather than hiding behind the ‘I’m not a historian’ excuse. Just because u r obsessed by yourself it doesn’t mean that others are. G: being my leading stalker, this is the best joke you have ever produced yes you’re more popular than the Palestinians. Who knows. Maybe that’s the way to victory! Quite what they’ve done to deserve your ‘support’ is another question.
G: It is indeed a matter of concern i agree,,, I have no idea whose site ranks highest and only someone with a monstrous ego would be at all concerned with whether he is more popular than Electronic Intifada. G: Again facts my dear,, i am sure that you know the ranking of your site and you also know that it jumps up when you write about me…and then it drops agin… ] you see , you have to learn to differentiate between ego and merits… What I do know is that EI is a site with quality articles on a consistent basis about Palestinian politics. Your site is full of rubbish. And if you don’t get it, well try this.
The Sun is Britain’s most popular paper and the News of the World was the most popular Sunday paper, but only a complete idiot would brandish those figures against the circulation of say the Guardian. Come to think of it you probably are a Sun reader. G: Popularity indeed doesn;t mean a lot, but as you and i know, all my articles are circulated on all and best dissident journals around the world in and in many languages… as you may know by now.. . You have a problem there, you will have to shape your narrative …. Going away for 3 weeks are we? Israel? No I guess that would be too obvious.
Just remember Harold Wilson’s dictum. Even a week can be a long time in politics. If I was u I’d keep internet contact.
Tony Greenstein
On 31 Jul 2011, at 02:42,
tony greenstein wrote: Not at all. If you have any relevant political question then I will be happy to answer it but I’m not going down into the sewer with you. The question is a simple one. Why did you refuse to give a simple answer to a question about the holocaust and instead dishonestly resort to saying you weren’t a historian? Actually it’s a rhetorical question since I know the answer. There is only one answer i.e. you didn’t want to say outright what you believe, i.e. there was no holocaust. So you were lying to the SWP in 2005 or you’ve changed your mind. Which is it? I’m published by plenty of quality publications and sites, from Electronic Intifada to Weekly Worker to the Journal of Holy Land Studies, Labour History Workshop etc.
They expect rigorous academic standards unlike the dross you pen which is motivated by conspiracy theories in which it’s always the the Jews wot done it. Sure there are hundreds of conspiracy sites and they are entitled to the benefit of your insights. You’re quite a simple fellow Gilad really. But I assume that when you go to Gabi’s conference you will be honest with those who wish to break the boundaries of political discourse and openly state what you think regarding WW2 and defy those who would want to silence the flat earthists, sorry holocaust deniers. Tony
Greenstein From: Gilad Atzmon
To: tony greenstein
Sent: Sun, 31 July, 2011 8:43:05
Subject: Re: here is an offer Tony the offer was simple. You question , I question… But you are a coward …
You can mention my idf past but wouldn’t like to talk about yourself being a dedicated shoplifter more or less the same year. You see, you are not capable of think historically. People who cannot live in peace with their past ve no prospect of future. This applies to israel and you. Anyway. Here is the answer to your idiotic question. In spite of being an English speaker you fail to see that holocaust and nakba are not facts but historical narattives-compounds of facts, beliefs, myths, body of fictional and cinematic narration and so on… Hence the question ‘did the holocaust happen’ is an idiotic question and Impossible to answer. Narattives are not facts!!! The same applies to the Nakba. Facts can be verified in isolation not as a bundle of events… I guess that you are too stupid to understand it and this may not be your fault.
I believe also that there is no much you could do about it.. However, in my new book and my writing I give a full account of my take on history and the holcaust. History = revision of the past . The enemies of such adventure are the enemies of humanity. You amongst other zionists are no doubt in the club. Re the publications you mention. Only one of them is respected , credible and popular (elec intifada) and as far as I am aware you are not exactly their regular columnist… You probably managed to filter through twice… I wish you luck. You mayeven make it again in a year time… I wonder how come no one reprinted your Atzmon’s guide? you clearly spent years on this piece.
Have a nice day g On 31 Jul 2011, at 15:07, tony greenstein wrote: I’m not interested in a dialogue with you, your personal past, your failure to oppose Zionism when in Israel or any other mythology about you personally. i just want to know why you lie politically, that’s all. My personal past has no relevance to the debate despite your lies.
I’m not even interested in the fact that you have stolen the music and work of Palestinians and not given them credit or royalties except when pressed, eg Mahmoud Darwish. People will make their own assessment of your morals but for my part I’m not interested in you except in so far as you damage the Palestinian cause to boost your career Tony Greenstein 31st July 17:43 Tony Greenstein It’s not a question of what I believe. Oh I think most people know that even if I was Jack the Ripper himself, it would have no relevance to the fact that you are a holocaust denier and a liar who can’t even admit to what he believes openly. Someone who consciously lies like you is naturally politically dishonest so yes, obviously you r happy to take Palestinians for a ride to bolster your career. The question is whether you are an Israeli asset or not. The jury is out on that one.
tony greenstein
From: Gilad Atzmon
To: tony greenstein Sent: Sun, 31 July, 2011 17:56:25 Subject: Re: here is an offer It is not down to u to decide about the relevance of your past and it seems that was relevant enough for you to take me to court… the story about MD is almost as funny as your past… Do u really believe in it? Do u really believe that I would be publishing and touring for pls organisations if it was true? Even your stupidity must ve limit. Re: here is an offer From: Gilad Atzmon Sent: Sun, 31 July, 2011 22:54 …
To: tony greenstein >
U r a total moron to think that pls could boost anyone’s career.. Don’t u know that show business is run by z&js… The fact that I ve a career while supporting pls is a miracle xxx and re h denial, there is no such a thing. It is a zionist invention ..
From Tony Greenstein >
To: Gilad Atzmon
Monday 1st August 01.29.
Conference on Historical Revisionism
Gilad,
I realise that I didn’t response to the second part of your lengthy post, about which I have no complaint, because I didn’t see it. Put it down to the joys of bringing up children who distract you.
I understand only too well what you are saying. Historical narratives are either composed of historical facts, or alleged facts, or they are not historical. I say that as a historian. The debate in history centres around which facts are chosen out of the many, how they are interpreted and whether they are indeed true as alleged. You confuse a narrative with culture and in any event, the term historical narrative in the sense you use it is contradictory, as if history is just a story which can be changed.
Hence when Haneen Zoabi says that the Nakba is not a narrative but a fact she is challenging those who deny the Nakba. When I challenge those who deny the holocaust I do it for exactly the same reasons. When children were murdered in Auschwitz or in Duweima, they were facts – facts etched in blood. No narrative in the world can change those facts.
You say that the question whether the holocaust or nakba occurred is an ‘idiotic question and Impossible to answer. Narattives are not facts!!! The same applies to the Nakba.’ Precisely. Whether the holocaust or nakba occurred are facts, part of an overall story or analysis, but in themselves are factually situated in history.
The narrative or analysis is how we make sense of them, why did they happen, what were the attitudes of those who committed these atrocities, were they part of a wider plan, who knew etc. etc. Facts can clearly be verified as a bundle of events. If massacres occurred all round then it is likely that one occurred in a village or town, even where there were no survivors or witnesses.
So it is not a question of my stupidity but your desire to rewrite the past. History involves a reinterpreation of the past not a revision of the past . You can’t revise that which has happened unless you possess a time capsule. You can reinterpret the past but that is an entirely different thing. Hence why David Irving accepted the holocaust when he asserted that Hitler never knew. When he joined the holocaust deniers he was quickly out of his depth. So the enemies of humanity are those who would deny facts that have long been proved in order to repeat them again. I don’t know whether you are a Zionist. However everything you do gives comfort to them.
I have never claimed respectability. I was in fact asked specifically to write an article by EI on Histadrut and the process was rigorous. It has laid the basis for Boycott actions against them, not something you would know much about having opposed the boycott previously.
Interesting that the Journal of Holy Land Studies, edited by Professor Nur Masalha is not respected. But I only threw out these two to demonstrate that you are wrong as usual.
Tony Greenstein
On 1 Aug 2011, at 01:41,
tony greenstein wrote:
I’ll leave to one side your equation of Jews and Zionists and the fact that show business is run by them.
If indeed it is blighting your career, then we are in a win-win situation. You don’t associate with the Palestine solidarity movement and the Palestinians benefit. Likewise your career benefits. A deal?
Or of course there is the other explanation for your behaviour. Namely that your career is protected as a good Israeli State asset.
Tony Greenstein
From: Gilad Atzmon giladatzmon@mac.com
To: tony greenstein
Sent: Mon, 1 August, 2011 7:54:04
Subject: Re: Conference on Historical Revisionism
I am sorry to disappoint you but history is a story.. It is an attempt to make the past into a story.. Sometime we encounter a battle between competing stories (stories , narratives, paradigms). I myself view it as the human experience.
And if a historical narrative is the ‘attempt to make sense’ if a chain of event’ as you yourself say than you cannot attribute truthfulness to it. You see, in order to attribute truth to a statement you need a correspondence rule. You can do it with facts but not with ‘sense’. about the attempt to make sense all you can say is that it is sensible…
You could do with a bit of thinking..this may help you to catch up …
Re: Conference on Historical Revisionism
From: Gilad Atzmon
To: tony greenstein <
Sent: Mon, 1 August, 2011 8:01:29
Subject: Re: here is an offer
Unlike you tony, I do not ve any interest in politics. I do what I do because I follow my own ethical call. I do not wake up in the morning and ask myself what I can do for ‘the movement’. I do what I do because I am intrigued intellectually and morally. I believe that the fact that each of my articles are reprinted an translated on hundreds of outlets means something. Everything is very simple in my world.
From: tony greenstein 14:03
To: Gilad Atzmon giladatzmon@mac.com
No history isn’t just a story. If when my children were younger I told them the story of the 3 Bears there was no truth in it. At best it was allegorical. But history is based on what actually happened, facts. Of course some history is invented, as Shlomo Sand has demonstrated. In which case it’s not history but myth.
Yes a historical narrative is an attempt to make sense of, sometimes conflicting facts.
What I really find strange is that you harp on about this absolute nonsense of whether or not the Holocaust occurred, when that is taken for granted, a given.
The real debates are not between historical revisionists and those who believe in the holocaust, because 99.99% of historians do, but within those who believe in it. That is why your attraction to the deniers is so churlish and childish. You never get beyond the first stage.
You therefore miss out on things like the devastating critique of Daniel Goldhagen’s attempt to portray all Germans as Hitler’s Willing Executioners. E.g. Finkelstein’s demolition job on him. What did Germans know, if anything? My own view is very little in fact, hence why no extermination camp was anywhere near Germany. It took the Germans 2 years to discover from 1939 to 1941 that even within Germany their own disabled children were being gassed and burnt in the ovens of Hartheim and Brandenburg.
Instead of having attached your kite to these non-historians who find a fact and then twist it into a general attack on the holocaust per se, as if e.g. one could ever be sure of numbers when it took the US 3 years to be confident it knew how many had died in 9/11, you could have written about the debates between intentionalists and functionalists, how Zionism via Yad vashem has sought to twist and manipulate holocaust historiography in their political direction erasing people like Rudolf Vrba.
Instead you wish to hold hands with Mark Weber of the IHR. That for me is what is most baffling.
Tony Greenstein
On 1 Aug 2011, at 14:54, tony greenstein < wrote:
whether you have any interest Gilad in politics the fact is that you are involved. Ethics are relative and yours are more relative than most.
The fact that your articles are reprinted means nothing. The question is who by. The News of the World was Britain’s biggest circulation newspaper, but its content was tripe.
Tony Greenstein
On 1 Aug 2011, at 15:03, tony greenstein wrote:
No history isn’t just a story. If when my children were younger I told them the story of the 3 Bears there was no truth in it. At best it was allegorical. But history is based on what actually happened, facts. Of course some history is invented, as Shlomo Sand has demonstrated. In which case it’s not history but myth.
Yes a historical narrative is an attempt to make sense of, sometimes conflicting facts.
What I really find strange is that you harp on about this absolute nonsense of whether or not the Holocaust occurred, when that is taken for granted, a given.
The real debates are not between historical revisionists and those who believe in the holocaust, because 99.99% of historians do, but within those who believe in it. That is why your attraction to the deniers is so churlish and childish. You never get beyond the first stage.
You therefore miss out on things like the devastating critique of Daniel Goldhagen’s attempt to portray all Germans as Hitler’s Willing Executioners. E.g. Finkelstein’s demolition job on him. What did Germans know, if anything? My own view is very little in fact, hence why no extermination camp was anywhere near Germany. It took the Germans 2 years to discover from 1939 to 1941 that even within Germany their own disabled children were being gassed and burnt in the ovens of Hartheim and Brandenburg.
Instead of having attached your kite to these non-historians who find a fact and then twist it into a general attack on the holocaust per se, as if e.g. one could ever be sure of numbers when it took the US 3 years to be confident it knew how many had died in 9/11, you could have written about the debates between intentionalists and functionalists, how Zionism via Yad vashem has sought to twist and manipulate holocaust historiography in their political direction erasing people like Rudolf Vrba.
Instead you wish to hold hands with Mark Weber. That for me is what is most baffling.
Tony Greenstein
From: Gilad Atzmon
To: tony greenstein
Date: Monday 1st August 15:31
We had been there before, you do not know how to integrate data into an argument. Indeed popularity is not necessarily an indication but my articles are circulated on most prestigious dissident Mags, they also do not promote any populist or popular views … if this doesn’t Mean a thing to you , I don’t know what does…, also ethics is not relative it Is actually universal… But this may be too complicated for you to grasp at this stage… It is one of the most complicated issues in continental philosophy .
From: Gilad Atzmon giladatzmon@mac.com
To: tony greenstein
Sent: Mon, 1 August, 2011 18:10:18
Subject: Re: Conference on Historical Revisionism
Tony did you ever hear about the distinction between fictional and non fictional..? If you really want to talk about sand , read sand about philosophy of history.. For him every history is an invention… I can send u a recording when he says it to me in an interview.. But he also says it in his book ..
Also you won’t fin in my writing any quote suggesting the H didn’t take place.. I insist that it is not conveyed as a historical narrative but as a religion .. The difference between leibovitch , offir and myself is that I try to understand the metaphysics of this precept ..
I am writing from phone and cannot enter a major discussion about DG or NF …but I clearly despise the former …I ll be happy to deal with it once I m on wifi
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