Gilad Atzmon

UC Berkeley students demonstrate after the student senate the student senate did not overturn a veto on a bill that would divest from American companies profiting off the occupation. (photo: Ramsey El-qarey)

How the Palestine movement taught me to confront anti-Semitism

On American university campuses, pro-Palestine activists are routinely smeared as anti-Semites seeking to destroy Israel. But contrary to what pro-Israel activists claim, the BDS movement has been instrumental in challenging anti-Semitism on the left. By Tom Pessah Anti-Semitism is unlike most other forms of hatred, in that it is both a form of bigotry and a false…

By +972 Magazine March 4, 2018

On bigotry and solidarity

Greta Berlin’s anti-Semitic tweet was but one in a series of comments she has made, enabling many of her critics to discredit the entire Free Gaza Movement. As activists, it is our job to make sure one bigotry can never be used to justify another. By Tom Pessah An Iranian American acquaintance once explained to…

By +972 Magazine October 7, 2012

Greta Berlin (second from the left, bottom) with a group of activists and parliamentarians at the Larnaca port (photo: Free Gaza Movement / CC BY-ND 2.0)

Head of Free Gaza Movement: Anti-Semitic video in question is ‘disgusting’

After being accused of promoting a video which places the blame for the Holocaust on the Zionists, Greta Berlin tells her side of the story. I just finished about a 20-minute phone interview with Free Gaza Movement spokeswoman Greta Berlin, who spoke from Los Angeles. I exchanged some e-mails with her, I asked…

By Larry Derfner October 6, 2012

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Palestinian activists disavow former Israeli Jew for anti-Semitism

The US Palestinian Community Network and Electronic Intifada are circulating this public letter, which is not only about Gilad Atzmon – the former Israeli turned conspiracy-theorist and anti-Semite – but more importantly, makes the distinction between criticism of Zionism and relations with Jews and the Jewish people. I am not endorsing everything in this text, but…

By Noam Sheizaf March 14, 2012