Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Gilad Atzmon talks about his latest book “The Wandering Who?”

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Gilad Atzmon talks about his latest book “The Wandering Who?”

Click here to access article by Silvia Cattori from Voltaire.

In the interview Atzmon, as a former Israeli Jew who has gone through a long process of self-examination, examination of the Holocaust, Zionism, Jewishness, and Jewish anti-Zionists, offers some insights on important issues related to these concepts.

I think that when it comes to Israel and ‘Jewish power’ every humanist, including myself, has a conflict to handle. I would formulate it as such: ‘how can I tell the truth about Israel, the Lobby, and Zionism and still maintain my position as a humanist’. It took me very many years to learn to differentiate between the wheat and chaff. I learned to distinguish between Jews (the people), Judaism (the religion) and Jewishness (the ideology).