http://blog.adlermusic.com/2010/07/no-place-for-racists.html thoughts on music, politics, and the world Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:20:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.adlermusic.com/2010/07/no-place-for-racists.html#comment-3796 admin Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:19:45 +0000 http://blog.adlermusic.com/?p=1531#comment-3796 My account is in fact accurate - I noted SW's effort to disavow Atzmon and did not claim there is an institutional link between the two. However, SW's laziness and sloppiness in the matter revealed a failure to take antisemitism seriously. The tendency is to grant credibility to any foe of Israel, no matter how extreme the views. Atzmon's record is entirely clear and unambiguous, as the most cursory Google search would have revealed. My account is in fact accurate – I noted SW’s effort to disavow Atzmon and did not claim there is an institutional link between the two. However, SW’s laziness and sloppiness in the matter revealed a failure to take antisemitism seriously. The tendency is to grant credibility to any foe of Israel, no matter how extreme the views. Atzmon’s record is entirely clear and unambiguous, as the most cursory Google search would have revealed.

]]> http://blog.adlermusic.com/2010/07/no-place-for-racists.html#comment-3795 paul Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:10:58 +0000 http://blog.adlermusic.com/?p=1531#comment-3795 Your representation of Atzmon's relation to SW is not at all accurate. SW had no association with Atzmon - rather, someone heard he was an pro-Palestinian artist, and decided to interview him, but did not realize who Atzmon was. While he is notorious on the British Left, in the US he is not well known. Once I and others made the editors aware of Atzmon's anti-Semitism, SW took down the interview and condemned him. This seems to me to be a sterling example of how this sort of thing should be handled. It really stretches credulity to portray it as evidence of anti-Semitism in the movement. Your representation of Atzmon’s relation to SW is not at all accurate. SW had no association with Atzmon – rather, someone heard he was an pro-Palestinian artist, and decided to interview him, but did not realize who Atzmon was. While he is notorious on the British Left, in the US he is not well known. Once I and others made the editors aware of Atzmon’s anti-Semitism, SW took down the interview and condemned him. This seems to me to be a sterling example of how this sort of thing should be handled. It really stretches credulity to portray it as evidence of anti-Semitism in the movement.

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