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{{Infobox Person
|name          = Gilad Atzmon<br />{{lang|he|גלעד עצמון}}
|image         = Gilad Atzmon.jpg
|image_size    = 180px
|caption       = Gilad Atzmon
|birth_name    = Gilad Atzmon
|birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1963|6|9}}
|birth_place   = [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]]
|residence     = London
|nationality   = [[Israel]]i and British<ref name="St. Clair"/>
|known_for     = Musician, Israel-related political activism{{POV-statement|date=March 2009}}
|education     = [[Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance|Rubin Academy of Music]]
|occupation    = Musician
|website       = [http://www.gilad.co.uk/ www.gilad.co.uk]
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'''Gilad Atzmon''' ({{lang-he|גלעד עצמון}}, born June 9, 1963, [[Israel]]) is an Israeli-born British [[jazz musician]], and is known as an author and activist who is critical of both [[Zionism]] and [[Judaism]].<ref name="gilchrist222">{{cite news|url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/39I-thought-music-could-heal.3804991.jp?CommentPage=1&CommentPageLength=1000|title='I thought music could heal the wounds of the past. I may have got that wrong&(contracted; show full)

===Allegations of antisemitism and responses===
Allegations of antisemitism due to Atzmon's views have come from a variety of quarters in the UK
 and elsewhere, ranging from commentators such as [[David Aaronovitch]] (in a June 2005 ''[[The Times]]'' opinion piece)<ref name="aaron628">{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article538076.ece|title=How did the far Left manage to slip into bed with the Jew-hating Right?|last=Aaronovitch|first=David|date=June 28, 2005|work=[[The Times]]|accessdate=2009-03-21}}</ref> and [[David Hirsh]] (in a November 2006 blog on ''The Guardian'''s [[Comment is Free]] website,<ref name=hirsh301106>David Hirsh, [http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/david_hirsh/2006/11/a_new_menacing_current_is_appe.html Openly embracing prejudice], ''[[The Guardian]]'', November 30, 2006.</ref> which allowed Atzmon a response<ref>''Gilad Atzmon'', ''The Guardian'' 12 December 2006, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/dec/12/giladatzmonrespondstodavid A response to David Hirsh]</ref>) to the [[Jews Against Zionism]], which asked for the [[Socialist Workers Party]] to withdraw an invitation to Atzmon to speak at the ''Marxism 2005'' conference.<ref name=Rizzo/>  Atzmon responded in a letter to ''[[The Observer]]'' that he did not "justify any form of violence against Jews, Jewish interests or any innocent people." He explained the context of his comment as "debating the question of rationality of anti-semitism. I claimed that since Israel presents itself as the 'state of the Jewish people', and bearing in mind the atrocities committed by the Jewish state against the Palestinians, any form of anti-Jewish activity may be seen as political retaliation. This does not make it right."<ref>[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1468961,00.html Observer Letters to the Editor], ''[[The Guardian]]'', April 24, 2005.</ref> The Socialist Workers Party has since distanced itself from Atzmon.<ref name=Lewis/> Atzmon has been described by Lebanese-American academic [[As'ad AbuKhalil]] as "a classical anti-Semite".<ref>[http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/01/friends-we-dont-need.html Friends we don't need], The Angry Arab News Service, 18 January 2009: ''"There are anti-Semites who intrude on the pro-Palestinian advocacy movement, and they attempt (wittingly or unwittingly) to contaminate it. One Gilad Atzmon is one of those classical anti-Semites. Anti-Semites are not friends of the Palestinian movement and they should be rejected from our midst. These are friends we can do without. The Palestinan people deserve better than those haters."''</ref>

In 2005 Atzmon distributed to his email list a paper called "The Holocaust Wars" written by [[Paul Eisen]] which [[Jews Against Zionism]]<ref name=Rizzo/> and columnist [[David Aaronovitch]] labeled [[Holocaust Revisionism|Holocaust revisionist]]/denialist paper.<ref name=aaron628/> This accusation has been picked up by others.<ref name="paul1112">{{cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1226404704925|title=Israe(contracted; show full){{Lifetime|1963|LIVING|Atzmon, Gilad}}
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