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Petition: for two activists... that you know well

Edna Spennato | 11.02.2008 00:10 | Anti-racism | Palestine

To all the friends of the freedom of speech and opponents of racism:
This is a petition in support of Gilad Atzmon and Mary Rizzo, who have been the targets of an ongoing vicious smear campaign by those claiming to be "anti-zionists", yet utilising zionist intimidation tactics against those who do not agree with their views.

We are a group of Palestinians and other activists for the Palestinian cause of various nationalities and affiliations, and believe that unity and persistence is important to confront the injustice our people had suffered in the past and still at present, probably in the unforeseeable future by Zionist and colonialist powers.

Zionism has damaged us from the first day when they started implementing their colonialist project to colonize all of Palestine, and when the opportunity comes, extend it beyond the borders of historic Palestine, damaging other Arabs. From the first day, they had been resorting to physical, psychological, moral and propaganda terror against all sorts of resistance whether it is in armed self-defense, and even against the power of the word by Palestinians and their supporters. They had been resorting to personal and communal targeted assassination, terrorizing Palestinians and their supporters all round the world in order to shut up all sorts of resistance. They try to break us apart, because they know our unity is dangerous to their colonialist and racist plans. They had been trying to control and shut the free and honest media, and political activism by financial bribery and blackmailing when running for any sort of political offices at all levels, especially against those who call for the liberation of Palestine and the Right of Return of Palestinians to their homes and land and want them to live under a democratic, sovereign and free state under the rule of law.

Among those free fighters against Zionism are two non-Arab supporters of the Palestinian cause, two outstanding personalities who are also great fighters for the implementation of freedom and liberty to all the subjugated peoples of the world, Gilad Atzmon, the ex-Zionist London-based musician and writer, and Mary Rizzo, the Italy-based blogger of Peacepalestine  http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/. They have been attacked by Zionists for a long time, but they are also being attacked by certain other people who are in the movement for Palestine.

Almost no day goes past when Tony Greenstein is not waging a war against Gilad Atzmon and Mary Rizzo, and we believe his actions have overstepped all limits. We have watched as he tries to smear them as racists, and we are saddened that his attempts increase as our own situation becomes more and more dramatic. These useless and pointless defamation campaigns are intolerable, as he circulates falsity against these activists. His attempts to do this only hurt our cause and waste our energy, not the least, they distract from the important issues, and go against the very idea of unity that we value.

We, Palestinians and activists for Palestine, express our solidarity with Gilad Atzmon and Mary Rizzo, who when they realized the tragedies Palestinians and other Arabs suffered, especially ethnically cleansed from their ancestral homeland, at the hands racist colonialist Zionism decided to fight for the rightful Palestinian cause. Atzmon willingly liberated himself from this inhuman and destructive project, by choosing the road of self-imposed exile and public exposure of what the Zionist project is all about. Tony Greenstein created among his usual lies that some Palestinians attack and defame the two dedicated supporters of the Palestinian cause, Atzmon and Rizzo. We declare that he does not speak for us or in our names when he attacks these and other activists.

We also take the opportunity to condemn the strangling siege that is being imposed over the Gaza Strip in particular and the West Bank and the rest of the Palestinian Arab people in general to complete their ethnic cleansing from their historic homeland. We urge all peace loving supporters of the freedom of thought, against all racism and Zionism and dedicated to the just Palestinian Arab cause as well as Iraq and all occupied Arab lands, to sign the petition calling for an end to the defamation campaign and a focus on the issues that are important to our people. Add you name, location and organization or group you are part of if you wish. Send it to  palestinesomoud@yahoo.fr. A list will be made public.

Initial Signatories: other names will be added and comments that have been sent will be compiled and published.
Adib S. Kawar, Nazareth, Palestine - Beirut, Lebanon
Walid Halabi, France-Italy
Arab Abdel-Hadi PMWATCH, Ansar Al-Quds. LEBANONVIEW, Free Palestine and others
Malak Abdel-Hadi, Palestinian living in Dubai
Shahira Mehrez, Egyptian living in Cairo, Egypt
Paola Pisi, Italy, URUKNET
Ismail Zayid, Canada
Nizar Issa, London, UK
Nadia Hasan, Chile
Dr Sadek Pharaon MD, Syria
Oren Ben Dor, UK
Manuel Talens, Spain
Dima Hamdan, London, UK
Iqbal Tamimi, Exiled Journalist Network – UK, A Palestinian journalist and poet
Samir Daoud - Akka Palestine - residence: Beirut – Lebanon
Nadia Daoud - Akka Palestine - Residence: Beirut – Lebanon
Hala Kawar – Nazareth, Palestine - Residence - Beirut – Lebanon
Wajih Freij – Jerusalem, Palestine - Residence: Beirut – Lebanon
Lamia Kawar – Nazareth, Palestine - Residence - Beirut - Lebanon
Ibrahim Kawar – Nazareth, Palestine - Residence - Beirut - Lebanon
Fausto Giudice, Secretary, France, Zapatist Alliance for Social Liberation
Ginette Hess Skandrani, France, Chairwoman, Zapatist Alliance for Social Liberation
Wael AlSaad, Düsseldorf-Germany. PYN Coordinator-Germany Palestinian Community Düsseldorf Board
Dr Hajo G. Meyer, Heiloo, the Netherlands, survivor of Auschwitz
The Radical Press, Canada
Mauro Manno, Italy
Manuela Vittorelli, Italy
Diego Traversa, Italy
Vicente Romano, Spain
Carlos Sanchis, Spain
Nancy Harb Almendras, United States, Germany
Zuhair Nafa, Palestine
Raja Chemayel, The Hague, Netherlands
Theodore D. Turner, Brooklyn, New York
Kristoffer Larsson, Sweden
Ellen Rohlfs, Germany, German-Palestinian Society and Gush Shalom
Hergen Matussik, Germany
Benedetta Scardovi-Mounier, USA/Italy
Cristina Santos, London, UK
Rocío Anguiano, Spain
Sigge Andersson, pre-med student, Sweden
Guenter Schenk, France/Germany, Aktionsbündnis für einen gerechten Frieden in Palästina
LanceThruster, LA, CA, USA
Mary Sparrowdancer, Tallahassee, FL
Birgit Jödahl, Sweden
Miguel Martinéz, Florence, Italy
Susanne Scheidt, Al-Awda Italia
Jean-Marie Flémal, writer and translator, WPB (Workers' Party of Belgium), Charleroi, Belgium.
Edna Spennato, South Africa-Brazil, Earth Heal Geoharmonic Research Project
Abdullah Husain, Palestine by birth, KSA, India by life accident
Wendy Campbell, California, USA, MarWen Media
Peter Brooke, UK, www.peterbrooke.org.uk
Daniel McGowan, Geneva, NY, Exec. Director, Deir Yassin Remembered
Debbie Brown, Hacienda Heights, California USA
Kenneth Rasmusson, Sweden
Redress Information & Analysis, London, UK
Schuyler Ebbets, USA, The People's Voice.org
Ragnar B. Johannessen, Norway, The People's Voice.org
Annie Selden Annab, Annie's Letters Blog
Jim Leven, UK, PSC member
Javier Fernández Retenaga, Spain
Shaukat Khawja, Toronto, Canada Profession: Engineer
Volker M., Canada
Lina Abu Baker, London, UK
Brenda Heard, UK, Friends of Lebanon,  http://www.friendsoflebanon.org/
Letizia Tessicini, Orte, Italy
Simon R-Levin, Manchester, UK
Paloma Valverde, Spain,member of CEOSI
Sarah Stevens, UK
Ralph Pinner, UK
Inge Soder, Germany
Sarah Gillespie, London, UK
Raja Ibrahim, Pistoia, Italy, ASSOCIAZIONE AMICIZIA ITALO - PALESTINESE
Adriano Mencarelli, Roma - Italy
Diego Ianiro - Caserta, Italy, of Khalas Napoli - khalasnews.splinder.com
Francesca Longhi- Bergamo, Italia
Antonio Corraine - Aosta, Italy
Stuart Cary Welch - N/A
Haitham Sabbah, Tulkarm, Palestine/Dubai, blogger of Sabbah's Blog
Latuff, Rio De Janiero, Brazil, Cartoonist
Nureddin Sabir, London, UK, Editor of Redress Information & Analysis
Steve Amsel, Jerusalem-Al Quds, blogger of Desert Peace
Lasse Wilhelmson, Sweden
Richard Jones, Swansea, Wales
Einar Schlereth, Sweden, Journalist
Karaiskos Kostas, Komotini, Greece, ANTIFONITIS director
Adeline Rec, N/A
Àlex Tarradellas, Catalonia
Nuria Álvarez, Spain
Guillermo F. Parodi, Paraguay, Universitary Professor
Dennis Zackrisson, Uppsala, Sweden
Mark Roland, Eugene Oregon, USA
Robert Wagner, Italy
Graham Derrick, West Yorkshire, UK
Gabriele Rèpaci, Milano, university student
Emmanuel St John, London, UK
Sami Joseph, UK
Ernesto Paramo, Mexico/UK
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, Glasgow, Scotland, blogger of The Fanonite
Jeffrey Blankfort, California, USA
David Baldinger, USA, Cartoonist, blogger
Olivia Zémor, Paris, France, cofounder CAPJPO (Coordination des Appels pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient)
Ana Cleja, France
John W. Blalock, N/A
Maryam Husain and Children, Displaced Palestinian/KSA/Italy/India currently
Emanuela Borrelli, Italy
Rachel Bridgeland, UK
Maria Ingrosso, Lecce, Italy
Riccardo Di Vito, Roma, Italia - Campo Antimperialista
Camilla Rahm, Gothenburg, Sweden

This Petition is also on: Redress, Uruknet, Arab News, Friends of Lebanon
Tlaxcala, Kelebek, The People's Voice, Sabbah's Blog and Desert Peace, Peacepalestine and others.

Edna Spennato

Comments

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11.02.2008 14:14

The people who this petition refers are have been deemed racist, anti-Semites and holocaust deniers by many respected activists.

A quick scan of the signatories reveals the kind of person who supports them:

Wendy Campbell, notorious holocaust denier
Deir Yassin Remembered plays host to another notorious holocaust denier
The Radical Press, Canada- a site which carries every mad anti-Semitic idea ever devised and then some that Goebbels would have rejected as "too extreme to be credible".

Well done. Keep it up! You true colours are getting hoisted ever higher.

What is less humourous and more sick is the fact they are coining in on an interpolation of the GAza situation.

I guess they didn't feel confident that their good reputations were enough draw support.

Dieter Thomas Heck


Also

11.02.2008 14:19

The article and petition are misleading as it gives the impression that the people in question are victims of Zionist false charges of racism.

This is totally untrue. They are being targeted by a grassroots direct action campaign by left-wing/anarchist anti-racists and anti-fa.

On that basis one has to question how many of these people have signed the petition on that deceptive basis.

Now I wonder if this misleading and inaccurate material of the most manipulative nature will remain visible recruiting more dupes for a lie.

Dieter Thomas Heck


Related article by Paul de Rooij

11.02.2008 14:24

AMIN (ARAB MEDIA INFORMATION CENTRE) HAS PUBLISHED A MUST SEE ARTICLE BY PAUL DE ROOIJ ON THIS ISSUE: "BEWARE OF SNAKES IN THE GRASS"

 http://www.amin.org/look/amin/en.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=7&NrArticle=44553&NrIssue=1&NrSection=3

Edna Spennato


no deception

11.02.2008 15:18

We have to assume that people never sign anything they don't agree with.

There is no deception there. If someone thinks so, they should get more information or just not sign.

Judging by the comments that the guy who is compiling the signatories has, it seems that many have asked what took so long for someone to tell Greenstein that they are sick of his campaigns, harassment and lies.

So, go look up all the people who signed, they are all pretty easy to find, most of them are public figures, have blogs, sites and are in various activist groups, tell them that they were wrong, because YOU and Tony know who are anti-Semites and they must be corrected.

That at least is an honest approach.

The list of lies Tony says is as long as my arm, and De Rooij wrote an article about what Tony does after Tony had written a screed against him as well. Tony had never heard of him until 2 weeks ago (!!!!) and all the same, decided to attack him just as violently.

A lot of people are just sick of it.

Want to know what the beauty is? Some of the people who signed are activist friends who know me well. When I talked with a few of them, I warned them that since Tony had decided now to attack Redress, since he OBVIOUSLY is more important than Redress... that they would probably find their sites and selves being attacked, yes, even the Palestinian people. They told me that they didn't care one bit, that if he did it was just a sign of his sick mind and his disinterest in Palestinians.

peacepalestine
- Homepage: http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com


Friends and foes

11.02.2008 15:57

Well are the holocaust deniers good friends or are you just honoured to enjoy their patronage?

And why would such a victimised non-racist have a rogues' gallery of foes on their blog with the word 'JEW' tagged onto them. Reminds a bit of the Baltic death squads hanging the "Jude" sign around necks of someone who has just been executed. But I suppose your friends dubt that happened either. Is 'JEW' tag merely a racist objection to their ethnicity or is meant to be a self-evident stereotypical insult?

You wouldn't know anti-racism if it moved into your front room with a megaphone.

Keep it coming.

Dieter Thomas Heck


Heck the Hypocrate

11.02.2008 17:11

And you, Heck, woudn't know hypocracy if it slapped you in the face with a dead fish. What a load of turd you write, when you know damn well that the satirical article which appeared on PeacePalestine with pics showing various faces with the JEW tag came directly from and was a response to the use of the JEW - Human Being tag to promote the sickening Gilad Shalit campaign, which you no doubt are very familiar with, and also support.

Matthew
mail e-mail: matthew@gmail.com


No

11.02.2008 17:49

No I didn't know that. And it really doesn't matter who did it first. The mechanism is still racist: you are defining someone else purely by their ethnicity, and in a negative manner too.

If you were able to tell us those people were happy to be identified on the blog with 'JEW' next to the photograph you may have some claim to "irony". But as it stands your best pathetic excuse is that someone else did it first. I thought most of us left that one at the primary school gates.

And true to the paranoid racist stereotype you accuse me of being a Zionist. Don't I actually have to subscribe to something to be a supporter? Or is it some kind of witch dunking decree?

Anyway, what about those holocaust deniers Mathew. Do you consider them to be your friends and allies too? That not bother you at all. Because I notice you haven't commented let alone tried to distance yourself from them.

Keep it coming.

Dieter Thomas Heck


Atzmon & Rizzo first - Palestinians of Gaza an afterthought

12.02.2008 00:34

At a time when Gaza is under siege and people are dying we are told that the most important cause around Palestine is defence of 2 holocaust deniers and anti-Semites. True they do get around to mentioning, as an afterthought, the siege of Gaza, but that is it. For 2 days this has been the top blog on 'peacepalestine'.

Those who aren't anti-Semitic or racists who have signed this should be ashamed of themselves. The Zionists attack supporters of the Palestinians as anti-semitic and now this will be used to confirm that 'fact'.

This all started out when Jews Against Zionism criticised Israel Shamir, a Board Member and adviser of Deir Yassin Remembered. He is not mentioned these days as it is widely accepted he is an Israeli agent. In the years to come the same will be said of Gilad Atzmon. Whether he's working for nothing or receives an allowance is immaterial.

This petition is in support of mary rizzo, who assures us that she is not anti-semitic. Let us judge how much faith we should put in her judgment. On the Socialist Unity site she assured us concerning one of the signatories to the petition that:

'The Radical Press presents thought-provoking and intelligent information and analysis. It is absolutely NOT anti-Semitic, but many who might not agree with its harsh critique on Israel might try to label it as such, so that people will create confusion between the two, and things never change.

I hope you realise that it is a valuable resource, and any campaigning made to insinuate that it is a racist site is not at all accurate.
Mary Rizzo
 http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=1687#comment-42507

And what does its 'thought-provoking and intelligent information and analysis' consist of?

There are articles on the:
Jewish Banking Cartel (82) Jewish Holocaust Industry (77) Jewish Lobby (112) Jewish Media Monopoly (105) Jewish Porn Industry (50) Jews (148) Jews Behind Bolshevik Revolution
 http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=681#more-681

There is a delightful article from a Brother Daniel on the same site:
AMERICA IS RUN BY JEWS
By Brother Nathanael Kapner
Brother Nathanael  bronathanael@yahoo.com
AMERICA IS NOW A JEW-RUN NATION. Here is a list of the prominent Jews who run America: [I wont bore you with the list]

Elsewhere we learn that ‘Judaism is a "chameleon" culture/religion. It "becomes" whatever is necessary in order to deceive and trick non-Jews’
 http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=681#more-681

"The Jew also believes he is destined to own and rule the whole world as a ‘master race.’"
"The Jews are not going to stop what they are doing to us! We are going to have to stop them, even if that means separating them from our midst permanently!"
"Jewish supremacists thrive and thieve more successfully in a country without a strong majority that is well-organized for its own self-interest, as whites used to be before the Jewish Trojan Hebrew Horse rode into town"
"the whole concept of "multiculturalism", the kind offered up like a steady dietary staple on a majority of college campuses, was created by Jews. In fact, as political dissident author Curtis Maynard explains, a Jewish woman actually wrote a whole primer to encourage and spread this alien ideology."
"Abortion is a modern and grisly Jewish death trade. Jews run 50% of abortuaries in America (though only comprising 2% of the population) and they make up the leadership of nearly every pro-abortion activist group…. the main impetus or stimulus for the Jewish abortion cheerleaders is to dramatically lower the white birthrate, thereby killing off their chief competitors and decreasing the white surplus population."
"Most teens in America have a far more favorable view of homosexuals than their parents or grandparents ever did. But this is the Jewish way. Brainwash, propagandize and then recruit, recruit, recruit like hell! But as Jewish homosexual organizations try to indoctrinate sexually confused young people into the gay death style there seems to be more at work here than simple "tolerance" or "diversity" issues. This is an effort to tear asunder the notion of "traditional family" that has been the bedrock of Western survival….Though not all homosexual enthusiasts are Jewish, their leaders surely are."
"All of these facets of the Jewish blueprint have one central theme. They impose sickness and social disease and degeneracy and death by constant fiat." [4] January 31, 2008
[1] http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=681
[2]  http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=663#more-663 and
 http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=563#more-563
and  http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=436#more-436
[3]  http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=683#more-683
[4]  http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=674#more-674

There are also plenty of other anti-Semites and holocaust deniers on the list of signatures e.g. Paul Eisen see
 http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2008/01/gilad-atzmon-now-open-holocaust-denier.html

Tony Greenstein
mail e-mail: tonygreenstein@yahoo.com


De-Nazification

13.02.2008 22:59

Chris,

There is a site that is linked on Rizzo's Peace Palestine on the links down the left:

 http://www.nowarforisrael.com/

It's run by the KKK a.k.a David Duke

 http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=nowarforisrael.com

This has been known to her for over a month:

 http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2008/01/12/hilarity_at_peacepalestine.php

Kinder Keuche Kirche
- Homepage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(history)


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