Gilad Atzmon, Israeli ex-pat, is now better known for his obsession with his own Jewishness than his jazz playing. His attempts to cover this obsession with support for Palestinians has now been denounced by American Palestinians in the name of their principles of solidarity, self-determination, justice, human dignity, and equality.

An open letter signed by more than 100 prominent solidarity activists in protest at Gilad Atzmon’s writings and support for them from “a small section of the left”. They write of Atzmon’s statements: “[B]esides distorting the history of Jews and constituting a brazen justification for centuries of anti-Jewish behavior and beliefs, [they] also downgrade anti-Zionism to a mere front in the broader (anti-Jewish) struggle. Atzmon has specifically described Zionism not as a form of colonialism or settlerism, but as a uniquely evil ideology unlike anything else in human history…” Plus some critical reviews of the Atzmon book The Wandering Who?