SHLOMO SAND was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a “secular Jew.” With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity.

Sand studied history at the University of Tel Aviv and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, in Paris. He currently is Emeritus Professor History at the University of Tel Aviv. His books include The Invention of the Jewish People, On the Nation and the Jewish People, L’Illusion du politique: Georges Sorel et le débat intellectuel 1900, Georges Sorel en son temps, Le XXe siècle à l'écran and Les Mots et la terre: les intellectuels en Israël. His current book is How I Stopped Being a Jew.

ABOUT 'How I Stopped Being A Jew' by Professor Shlomo Sand

How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the “chosen people” myth and its “holocaust industry.” Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what “Jewish” means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism.

Extract from 'How I Stopped Being a Jew':

During the first half of the 20th century, my father abandoned Talmudic school, permanently stopped going to synagogue, and regularly expressed his aversion to rabbis. At this point in my own life, in the early 21st century, I feel in turn a moral obligation to break definitively with tribal Judeocentrism. I am today fully conscious of having never been a genuinely secular Jew, understanding that such an imaginary characteristic lacks any specific basis or cultural perspective, and that its existence is based on a hollow and ethnocentric view of the world. Earlier I mistakenly believed that the Yiddish culture of the family I grew up in was the embodiment of Jewish culture. A little later, inspired by Bernard Lazare, Mordechai Anielewicz, Marcel Rayman and Marek Edelman – who all fought antisemitism, nazism and Stalinism without adopting an ethnocentric view – I identified as part of an oppressed and rejected minority. In the company, so to speak, of the socialist leader Léon Blum, the poet Julian Tuwim and many others, I stubbornly remained a Jew who had accepted this identity on account of persecutions and murderers, crimes and their victims.

Now, having painfully become aware that I have undergone an adherence to Israel, been assimilated by law into a fictitious ethnos of persecutors and their supporters, and have appeared in the world as one of the exclusive club of the elect and their acolytes, I wish to resign and cease considering myself a Jew.

Although the state of Israel is not disposed to transform my official nationality from “Jew” to “Israeli”, I dare to hope that kindly philosemites, committed Zionists and exalted anti-Zionists, all of them so often nourished on essentialist conceptions, will respect my desire and cease to catalogue me as a Jew. As a matter of fact, what they think matters little to me, and still less what the remaining antisemitic idiots think. In the light of the historic tragedies of the 20th century, I am determined no longer to be a small minority in an exclusive club that others have neither the possibility nor the qualifications to join.

By my refusal to be a Jew, I represent a species in the course of disappearing. I know that by insisting that only my historical past was Jewish, while my everyday present (for better or worse) is Israeli, and finally that my future and that of my children (at least the future I wish for) must be guided by universal, open and generous principles, I run counter to the dominant fashion, which is oriented towards ethnocentrism.

As a historian of the modern age, I put forward the hypothesis that the cultural distance between my great-grandson and me will be as great or greater than that separating me from my own great-grandfather. All the better! I have the misfortune of living now among too many people who believe their descendants will resemble them in all respects, because for them peoples are eternal – a fortiori a race-people such as the Jews.

I am aware of living in one of the most racist societies in the western world. Racism is present to some degree everywhere, but in Israel it exists deep within the spirit of the laws. It is taught in schools and colleges, spread in the media, and above all and most dreadful, in Israel the racists do not know what they are doing and, because of this, feel in no way obliged to apologise. This absence of a need for self-justification has made Israel a particularly prized reference point for many movements of the far right throughout the world, movements whose past history of antisemitism is only too well known.

To live in such a society has become increasingly intolerable to me, but I must also admit that it is no less difficult to make my home elsewhere. I am myself a part of the cultural, linguistic and even conceptual production of the Zionist enterprise, and I cannot undo this. By my everyday life and my basic culture I am an Israeli. I am not especially proud of this, just as I have no reason to take pride in being a man with brown eyes and of average height. I am often even ashamed of Israel, particularly when I witness evidence of its cruel military colonisation, with its weak and defenceless victims who are not part of the “chosen people”.

Earlier in my life I had a fleeting utopian dream that a Palestinian Israeli should feel as much at home in Tel Aviv as a Jewish American does in New York. I struggled and sought for the civil life of a Muslim Israeli in Jerusalem to be similar to that of the Jewish French person whose home is in Paris. I wanted Israeli children of Christian African immigrants to be treated as the British children of immigrants from the Indian subcontinent are in London. I hoped with all my heart that all Israeli children would be educated together in the same schools. Today I know that my dream is outrageously demanding, that my demands are exaggerated and impertinent, that the very fact of formulating them is viewed by Zionists and their supporters as an attack on the Jewish character of the state of Israel, and thus as antisemitism.

However, strange as it may seem, and in contrast to the locked-in character of secular Jewish identity, treating Israeli identity as politico-cultural rather than “ethnic” does appear to offer the potential for achieving an open and inclusive identity. According to the law, in fact, it is possible to be an Israeli citizen without being a secular “ethnic” Jew, to participate in its “supra-culture” while preserving one’s “infra-culture”, to speak the hegemonic language and cultivate in parallel another language, to maintain varied ways of life and fuse different ones together. To consolidate this republican political potential, it would be necessary, of course, to have long abandoned tribal hermeticism, to learn to respect the Other and welcome him or her as an equal, and to change the constitutional laws of Israel to make them compatible with democratic principles.

Most important, if it has been momentarily forgotten: before we put forward ideas on changing Israel’s identity policy, we must first free ourselves from the accursed and interminable occupation that is leading us on the road to hell. In fact, our relation to those who are second-class citizens of Israel is inextricably bound up with our relation to those who live in immense distress at the bottom of the chain of the Zionist rescue operation. That oppressed population, which has lived under the occupation for close to 50 years, deprived of political and civil rights, on land that the “state of the Jews” considers its own, remains abandoned and ignored by international politics. I recognise today that my dream of an end to the occupation and the creation of a confederation between two republics, Israeli and Palestinian, was a chimera that underestimated the balance of forces between the two parties.

Increasingly it appears to be already too late; all seems already lost, and any serious approach to a political solution is deadlocked. Israel has grown used to this, and is unable to rid itself of its colonial domination over another people. The world outside, unfortunately, does not do what is needed either. Its remorse and bad conscience prevent it from convincing Israel to withdraw to the 1948 frontiers. Nor is Israel ready to annex the occupied territories officially, as it would then have to grant equal citizenship to the occupied population and, by that fact alone, transform itself into a binational state. It’s rather like the mythological serpent that swallowed too big a victim, but prefers to choke rather than to abandon it.

Does this mean I, too, must abandon hope? I inhabit a deep contradiction. I feel like an exile in the face of the growing Jewish ethnicisation that surrounds me, while at the same time the language in which I speak, write and dream is overwhelmingly Hebrew. When I find myself abroad, I feel nostalgia for this language, the vehicle of my emotions and thoughts. When I am far from Israel, I see my street corner in Tel Aviv and look forward to the moment I can return to it. I do not go to synagogues to dissipate this nostalgia, because they pray there in a language that is not mine, and the people I meet there have absolutely no interest in understanding what being Israeli means for me.

In London it is the universities and their students of both sexes, not the Talmudic schools (where there are no female students), that remind me of the campus where I work. In New York it is the Manhattan cafes, not the Brooklyn enclaves, that invite and attract me, like those of Tel Aviv. And when I visit the teeming Paris bookstores, what comes to my mind is the Hebrew book week organised each year in Israel, not the sacred literature of my ancestors.

My deep attachment to the place serves only to fuel the pessimism I feel towards it. And so I often plunge into despondency about the present and fear for the future. I am tired, and feel that the last leaves of reason are falling from our tree of political action, leaving us barren in the face of the caprices of the sleepwalking sorcerers of the tribe. But I cannot allow myself to be completely fatalistic. I dare to believe that if humanity succeeded in emerging from the 20th century without a nuclear war, everything is possible, even in the Middle East. We should remember the words of Theodor Herzl, the dreamer responsible for the fact that I am an Israeli: “If you will it, it is no legend.”

As a scion of the persecuted who emerged from the European hell of the 1940s without having abandoned the hope of a better life, I did not receive permission from the frightened archangel of history to abdicate and despair. Which is why, in order to hasten a different tomorrow, and whatever my detractors say, I shall continue to write.

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TIM TAKARO MD is a physician-scientist trained in occupational and environmental medicine, public health and toxicology, at Yale, the University of North Carolina and University of Washington. His research is primarily directed toward the links between human exposures and disease, and determining public health based preventive solutions to such risks. His work includes use of biological and other markers for medical surveillance, exposure assessment, and disease susceptibility with a focus on immunologic lung disease, human health and war, clinical occupational and environmental health and population resiliency in the health effects of climate change. Current research on human health and climate change focus on water quality in BC communities and building and mapping watershed resilience in Nicaragua. Current research collaborations include projects in India, Iraq, Mongolia, Nicaragua, the U.S. and Canada.

In March 2015, Dr. Takaro was awarded with the President’s Award for Leadership in Sustainability at Simon Fraser University.

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GUEST:  JOSHUA TREE SUNDBERG

Joshua grew up in a magical little town called Oakley, Utah. He grew up as 20th century Huckleberry Finn in the mountains, rivers, and farms of the majestic Uinta Mountains. His youth was founded in harvesting the bounty from local farms, growing food in gardens, and the spirit of a community that deeply values independence. This left a ever-lasting love for nature, profound respect for the environment, and strong sense of independence.

The eldest son of woodworking artists, his parents instilled a thirst for knowledge, a strong work ethic, and the courage of life long artists to follow his passions and dreams.

Upon graduating from high school he traveled the world serving in the U.S. Navy as a Gunners Mate Guns. He entered the military as a boy full of pride and blind patriotism. He left as a man with a more true understood what it means to be a patriot and deep respect for being a Citizen of the Republic of the United States of America

In early 2,000’s, Joshua served as the Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for a Nutracuetical company Kleos Laboratories in Salt Lake City Utah.

He graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Biology from the University of Utah in 2003 and began his adventure in real estate within the mortgage industry. The majority of his professional career has been in Advanced Mortgage Planning & Real Estate Portfolio management. He specialized integrating mortgages and real estate investments in a similar manner as traditional financial portfolios. The focus of these strategies was to optimize both the assets and liabilities within the portfolio for maximum risk protection, increased liquidity, and sustainable prosperity. for generations to come.

He has practiced portfolio management at many levels within the finance spectrum. Creating individual portfolios, consulting to Mortgage Banking institutions, and managing mortgage portfolios.

His main focus is the development and creation of Prosperity Homes. Prosperity Homes homes are high quality homes that create 3E (Energy Economic, Environmental) Independence. Achieved through synergistic integration of energy production (solar), electric vehicles, sustainable food/water systems non-toxic materials combined with energy efficient designs. The result is beautiful homes which produce power, grow food, harvest water, save money, add wellbeing to our lives and with the environment.
Prosperity Homes are the culmination of everything he has learned real finance and from years deeply studying the systems Energy, Environment, & Economic systems. Analyzing the core problems from the top or Global perspective, down to the most fundamental levels, the level of us as individuals citizens, families, and communities. Applying the principles developed in financial portfolio management, to create holistic solutions in the 3E’s Energy, Economics, Environmental

He views the significant problems of today as grand opportunities to fundamentally restructure our energy systems from the bottom up and rebuild our economies from the inside out.
Transforming our lives of over-consumption of debt, excessive leverage, & dependence on distant dark energy which is keeping us locked in a ever cycle of struggle, suffering, and pollution into super-production into a driving force of sustainable wealth, locally produced energy, ever more pristine environment, and prosperity that echoes for generations.

Joshua Tree is a powerful public speaker who has spoken to thousands of citizens, mortgage, real estate, and financial professionals about the power and strategies of Advanced Mortgage Planning.  He currently resides in Los Angeles CA with the love of his life, working in his dreams, and living his life’s purpose with passion

Because of her love of nature, the great outdoors, Earth’s bountiful gifts of natural resources, clean air and water, animals, marine life, wild life and all plant life “Lexie” Alexandra May Hunter has been an environmental activist for 40 years. She began doing volunteer service in her hometown community of Barrington, Illinois when her children were young where she acted as The Environmental Awareness Director for her children’s school district. Ms. Hunter is also a published photographer and writer & master equestrienne who now resides in Phoenix, Arizona.

During the course of her 24+ year business law career she has become an environmental law expert and has practiced as a Contract Manager concisely drafting, analyzing, advising, negotiating and successfully closing very complex technical high revenue deals for American based corporations. She has a sub specialty in environmental law, intellectual property, media law, commercial real estate,  the UCC,  labor law, corporate governance, railroad law, health care and IT, estates and trusts as well as training employees on best practices, corporate policies, labor law and complex legal issue matters.  She is highly adept at handling extremely complex issues often in very contentious adversarial settings where she navigates easily and brings the parties to a meeting of the minds that is a win-win for all involved.  She is an expert at analyzing complex verbiage, issues and concepts and boiling down the ambiguous complexity to the root cause principal issues at hand making it easy for understanding and communicating. She is an expert researcher and draftsperson.

Alexandra became aware of the currently in effect geoengineering program approximately 3 years ago and she set to devoting all of her time and energy to conducting an in depth thorough fact based analysis and research of the entire scope of the history, chronology, laws, science and technology, engineering, congressional oversight and removal of such oversight, the United Nations and countries participation, the military industrial complex, the banking system, the past & current day political system, non-governmental organizations (“NGO”),  private foundations, entities, trusts and individuals funding the many facets of the program as well as all of the principal persons involved with regards to the global implementation, operation and cover up of the covert program. On June 25, 2014, in a precedent setting action at the State level, Alexandra delivered actual legal notice of the currently in effect program & non-consent at a public meeting in Kingman, Arizona to State Senator Dr. Kelli Ward and 2 lawyers, Sherri Zendri & Beth Hager of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”).  During her speech she recited the precise Arizona laws which govern the scope of the issue, the historical & scientific facts, fact based background and present day on-going activities thereto and the affirmative truth that the state of Arizona does have legal jurisdiction over the currently in effect program.

After attending the first anti-geoengineering conference on Los Angeles, California in August of 2012 where she initiated, built and has maintained relationships with all the content experts on this matter, she has devoted her entire life, attention and abilities to this dire global survival matter. She has been a guest on many radio interview programs and has been interviewed by Robert Phoenix of Austin Texas, Sonny Thomas of Ohio, Larry Becraft, Esq. of Alabama, Dr. Dan Koontz of Phoenix, Tony Palleresco of Canada and Dave Kelman of Nevada to name just a few.

Alexandra has been helping the anti-geoengineering community by drafting a 70+ page state specific Resolution document that is intended to be presented to all state level elected representatives. For serious minded activists who are interested in Ms. Hunter’s expert services they can contact her at her email address which is; alexandrahunter@att.net.  She can also be found on Facebook, TSU, Seen.is and Twitter.

Over the years, Elana Freeland has been a Waldorf school pioneer, teacher, lecturer, storyteller, and writer. She has written for alternative publications, edited the stories of survivors of MK-ULTRA and ritual abuse, and ghostwritten books on diverse topics. Her second major in college was biology. In 1996, she was awarded a Master of Arts in Great Books and honors for her thesis on historiography at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Freeland has self-published a fictional American history series called Sub Rosa America about the “deep politics” behind the downfall of the United States since John F. Kennedy's assassination.

In June 2014, Feral House Books released Chemtrails, HAARP, and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planet Earth, the book that connects how the chemical aerosols whiting out our skies and ionospheric heaters around the world work together to assure seven major military operations of global control.

In October 2014, the Australian magazine Nexus published her article on invasive electromagnetic weapons, and now she has begun the sequel to Chemtrails, HAARP, and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planet Earth about the next operation to be served by global chemtrails-ionospheric heater technology: the Space Fence, a world Smart Grid enabled by the ionized atmosphere we now breathe. Inside the electromagnetic lockdown of the Space Fence, humanity is to be neurologically herded toward a Transhumanist future. . She now lives in Olympia, Washington.--

Robert M. Gould, MD graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and from 1981 until 2012 worked as a Pathologist at Kaiser Hospital in San Jose. In 2012 Bob was appointed as an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the UCSF School of Medicine, to serve as Director of Health Professional Outreach and Education for the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE). 

Since 1989, he has been President of the San Francisco-Bay Area Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), and in 2003 was President of National PSR, to serve again in this capacity in 2014. Since 1986, Bob has been an active in the Peace Caucus of the American Public Health Association, for which he has been Chairperson for numerous years, and in 2009 APHA awarded Bob the prestigious Sidel-Levy Peace Award.

In addition to speaking and publishing extensively on the clinician’s role in environmental and public health advocacy, Bob is an expert on the environmental and public health impacts of nuclear weapons; he is a contributing author to chapters on health impacts of nuclear weapons and nuclear terrorism in “War and Public Health” (2008) and “Terrorism and Public Health” (2011) published by Oxford University Press. Since 1992 Bob has been a leading member of the Environmental Committee of the Santa Clara County chapter of the California Medical Association (CMA), and through this work has authored and submitted numerous environmental health resolutions adopted by CMA as policy.

For his work within CMA, he received the Santa Clara County Medical Association’s "Outstanding Contribution in Community Service" award in 2001, and “Outstanding Contribution to the Medical Society award in 2012. Dr. Gould was also listed as one of Santa Clara County's "Top 400 Physicians" in peer-review surveys published in San Jose Magazine in 2001 through 2007.
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"As a human being and physician I am deeply drawn to PSR's mission to "protect human life from the greatest threats to health and survival." Being active in PSR greatly strengthens my determination to help preserve the web of life that sustains us all, and which is severely threatened by nuclear weapons and rampant militarism, toxic pollution and global warming."  --Robert Gould MD