Gilad Atzmon is one of London’s finest Jazz saxophonists but he is also of the world’s most outspoken critics of Zionism. Born secular of Jewish identity within Israel, Gilad served as a paramedic in the Israeli Defense Forces during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. This experience caused him to come to the belief that he “was part of a colonial state, the result of plundering and ethnic cleansing.” He left Israel and devoted his life to jazz and politics.

His views like those of all ArgusFest speakers are controversial but more importantly they dig at the root of injustice.