Washington JCRC Launches Legal Fund to Help 'Wrongfully Imprisoned' Jews

Funds also will be used to cover costs associated with advocating for the prisoners.

Learn more about Gilad by visiting his Website

(LONDON) - JTA (The Global News Service of the Jewish People) reported yesterday on a "new legal defense fund for Jews seen as being held wrongfully because of their Jewishness"

The fund will help cover the defense of Jews in the United States and throughout the world who the Jewish Community Relations council believes have been wrongfully charged or imprisoned.

Funds also will be used to cover costs associated with advocating for the prisoners.

And I think that time is ripe for the Jewish Community Relations council to launch a fund that will help cover the legal defense of millions of Palestinians who have been wrongfully imprisoned by the Jewish State in the name of the Jewish people.

Gilad Atzmon was born in Israel in 1963 and had his musical training at the Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem (Composition and Jazz). As a multi-instrumentalist he plays Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone Saxes, Clarinet and Flutes. His album Exile was the BBC jazz album of the year in 2003. He has been described by John Lewis on the Guardian as the “hardest-gigging man in British jazz".

Gilad Atzmon's essays are widely published. His novels 'Guide to the perplexed' and 'My One And Only Love' have been translated into 24 languages.

As a member of the Blockheads, Gilad has also recorded and performed with Ian Dury, Robbie Williams, Sinead O'Connor and Paul McCartney. Gilad has also recorded with Robert Wyatt, the Water Boys and many others. Learn more about Gilad by visiting his Website