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An Israeli Jewish activist speaks: ‘Today I don’t believe in the Zionist entity at all’
What’s it like to be an anti-Zionist Jew in Israel? Solidarity spoke to one such activist, Roni, about why a handful of dissenters continue against all the odds.
Tell us about growing up as a Jew in Israel
I grew up in a home that wasn’t ideologically Zionist—but was by default because it wasn’t anti-Zionist.
My Judaism wasn’t a strong feature of my life because being an Israeli and a Jew are seen as essentially the same thing. So there was not much Jewish education as the surrounding itself is inherently Jewish.
You learn nationalism from early on, in nursery school. In primary school you sing the national anthem every week. You learn the “victimisation narrative”—that Jews have a long history of being victims.
In secondary school you spend six months learning about the Holocaust. You learn about the rise of the Nazis throughout your school years but intensively as part of the VCE equivalent. Following that there are a few more generous months about why Israel has the right to exist—all from the victim perspective.
You’re told that the Nakba (it’s obviously not called that—we learn about it as the War of Independence) started because Arabs (they’re never called Palestinians) blew up a bus after refusing a peace agreement. Because of the war 750,000 people supposedly just “left”.
This is important because it’s the first history you learn in life and it shapes the way you see things later.
How does militarism shape people’s lives?
The education system is a factory for producing soldiers—and I went to a school that was regarded as “leftist”.
Holocaust Day is followed a week later by Memorial Day for victims of war. And the very next day is Independence Day. It’s a festival of ultranationalism.
Former soldiers come to your school in military uniform and you’re encouraged to look forward to becoming one, too. Then you can choose to go on a 10-month pre-military Zionist program to prepare you for becoming a soldier—this is something that I did.
It is sold as a leadership and social program: Zionism = patriotism = love of the land. At that time the Zionist part didn’t stand out to me as problematic.
Like all young Israeli Jews I joined the military and was with Intelligence. I extended my term in the army and became an officer.
I served in the north and in the south against Gaza. I took part in some things that, if I could take them back at any cost, I would.
What changed? How did you break from this system?
I had dinner with a Palestinian friend who asked me what a person like me was doing in the military. I didn’t have an answer. I’d been lying to myself. I’d been enjoying the responsibility and the good money and the feeling of doing something important. I wasn’t willing to face reality.
I had to make a conscious decision to look at a reality that was deeply harmful. I felt trauma and guilt over my role.
My last Intelligence role concerned Egypt and I saw how horrible the Israeli military was towards the young people it deploys, taking away their youth and wasting their time doing irrelevant and harmful things. It all just came together.
I asked to leave the military with a year of my contract to go. One of the things I wrote was that I didn’t believe in what the military was doing and how it was acting in Gaza and the West Bank.
At this point I still wasn’t anti-Zionist. I still separated the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza from the occupation of historic Palestine, the ’48 territories or so-called Israel. But my views got clearer. I started reading more and watching radical movies. Today I don’t believe in the Zionist entity at all.
Do you think others can go down your path and that Israel can change from within?
Can there be change from within? Absolutely not. Israelis are deeply nationalistic. If they talk about equality it’s only for themselves, not for Palestinians.
Israeli society is also very racist and segregated from within, so there are endless internal politics. Since the end of the 1990s Palestinians and the “Palestinian issue” have been completely taken out of the picture—from the public, political and social consciousness. If once, “progress towards peace” was an important factor in political affiliation, it’s not anymore.
A lot of the Israeli left are critical over what happens in the West Bank without being willing to acknowledge the bigger picture. So the Zionist left is against the occupation there but not elsewhere.
The Zionist left does not acknowledge Zionism as the root problem. It only talks continuously about the symptoms arising from it—the settlers in the West Bank, the “ultra-rightwing government” (as if all other governments were not rightwing, and as if the state wasn’t founded on fascism and nationalism), the increasing religiousness of the education system and the public space, the neglect of “Arab-Israelis” (aka Palestinians), etc.
The Zionist left is still very militaristic, nationalistic and unapologetically Jewish-supremacist—in any other society it would not be considered left at all.
Every move towards so-called peace is really about trying to find more subtle ways to oppress the Palestinians. The Oslo Accords in the early 1990s deepened the oppression while pretending to be beneficial.
Even back then change couldn’t have happened from within. Now it’s even worse.
Israelis don’t live in the same reality as Palestinians. In Israel there’s no access to anything anti-Zionist unless you actively search for independent media. Anti-Zionist parties are banned. Even those who support non-violent BDS are marginalised.
The colonial settler state has been ethnic cleansing for almost 80 years to weaken Palestinian resistance and ensure a Jewish demographic majority.
So the population thinks Israel is the saviour of the Jewish people and that they’re in a battle for existence. And everything is organised for Israelis to think this way.
And they hold the military in high regard—it’s idolised. A recent opinion poll showed 86 per cent wouldn’t question the military and have complete trust in it. It is the most trusted state entity, more than the government and the parliament.
Everyone was once in the military and always have plenty of either friends or family in it. In Hebrew they call it “the people’s army”. We anti-Zionists say—it’s not a state with an army, but an army with a state.
If Netanyahu is kicked out as prime minister it may stop the immediate genocide but essentially nothing would change. The system oppresses those who talk about peace, let alone about ending Zionism, justice to Palestinians or de-colonialism.
Israel is inherently genocidal. It needs to be abolished in its entirety.
You’re part of a small anti-Zionist collective, the Radical Bloc, in Yaffa and Tel Aviv. Tell us about it
From December 2022 to 7 October last year, there were big protests over Netanyahu’s government’s attacks on the legal system.
I joined the Anti-Occupation Bloc but I moved to the Radical Bloc because it was clearly anti-Zionist and identifies the colonial settler state as the root of the evil.
The Radical Bloc is a collective of anti-Zionist and anti-military activists. It’s very small—a few tens in Tel Aviv, which is seen as the most “liberal city”. There are other similar groups of activists in Jerusalem and Haifa.
We are predominantly Israeli/Jewish (identifying differently) but not exclusively. It is important to acknowledge that the way we are able to navigate our resistance is privileged in contrast to our Palestinian comrades. Most of us are also active in other groups/struggles.
In reality, the Radical Bloc can’t do much that makes a difference. It’s mostly symbolic. Some of us do something called protective presence, which means going into the West Bank in solidarity with the Palestinians and staying with their communities so that the soldiers and settler-terrorists are less aggressive. Some of us also used to join protests in the West Bank in past years but they haven’t happened since October.
We protest, do vigils and other things like project the number of dead in Gaza on to buildings.
Before 7 October we would take Palestinian flags to protests but we can’t now—it’s more dangerous than ever. They would just be taken down immediately or we would be arrested.
We get sworn at and sometimes people can get physically aggressive towards us. We’re almost always subject to heavy policing. Physical aggression comes from the police or the public.
We’ve had two actions where we put up photos from Gaza, showing the human and physical destruction. People tried to rip the photos down and when we leave they’re gone in seconds.
The Radical Bloc had a protest outside the US embassy, saying the US should stop arming Israel.
We get told that we should go and die in Gaza, and that we’re ungrateful to the soldiers, that we should be swapped for the hostages and that we’re traitors.
Given Israel won’t change and the Radical Bloc can have only a symbolic impact, why don’t activists like you leave the country?
For some people it’s simply that they have lives, homes, families.
For me it’s my home—even if I sometimes feel like an outsider. I constantly question if I should leave for good.
But even if it’s symbolic, there’s a value when it comes to resistance from within, to showing that there are people who stand with the Palestinians and their struggle for liberation and justice.
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Violence erupts as pro-genocide mob assaults peaceful pro-Gaza students
Reality of who is violent cuts across ‘mainstream’ and pro-Israel propaganda – but media ‘both-sides’ the one-sided racist attack
A victim of the mob receives treatment
The propaganda of pro-Israel groups and ‘mainstream’ media was again exposed last night after a pro-Israel mob of around one hundred mounted an assault on University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) students protesting peacefully against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Thugs attacked students with sticks, poles and chemical spray, pulled down barriers and tents and committed, according to a university administrator, ‘horrific acts of violence’ against young people demonstrating against war crimes. The assault began just before 6am today, UK time.
Police were reportedly slow to disperse the attackers.
Despite the one-sided violence, UK and US press have persisted in headlines that ‘both-sides’ the violence, presenting it as ‘clashes’ or ‘violence between groups’ in a sick echo of the language used by media to hide the reality of Israeli military and settler violence against Palestinians:
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Pinkwashing the Timeline
Just beneath the surface of pro-Zionist discourse lies a disdain for queerness.
Breaking: ICJ rules that Germany can continue Israel arms sales despite genocide
International Court of Justice reject Germany’s attempts to strike out case but refuses by 15 votes to 1 to issue emergency measures banning weapons sales
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has refused Nicaragua’s request for a provisional order banning Germany from exporting weapons to Israel, despite its earlier ruling that Israel is ‘plausibly’ committing genocide in Gaza. Nicaragua had argued that Germany is enabling genocide. The court rejected Germany’s request to strike out the application.
Germany is Israel’s second-largest arms supplier. The court expressed continued concern about the situation in Gaza but has allowed Germany to continue supplying the slaughter, despite Israel’s complete disregard of the court’s existing orders to protect Palestinian lives and Germany’s repression of pro-Gaza protest. The genocide case continues and is expected to take more than a year to conclude.
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Uni encampments for Gaza demand end to ties with Israel
Gaza solidarity encampments have spread to university campuses in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane, inspired by the movement on university campuses in the US and the camp at Columbia University.
At Sydney University the camp has already lasted a week. “The encampment was set up last Tuesday night,” Angus Dermody, a student activist, told Solidarity. “There was an organising meeting and from that, tents were set up on the Quad lawns.
“On the first night we had around 30 to 40 sleeping here.”
The students are demanding Sydney University cut ties with weapons manufacturers and cut ties with Israeli universities, as well as calling on NSW Premier Chris Minns to drop charges against pro-Palestine protesters and scrap the anti-protest laws.
Sydney Uni has partnerships with weapons companies including Safran, Thales and Lockheed Martin, which all produce weapons Israel is using in its genocide in Gaza.
It also continues to maintain exchange partnerships with the Israeli University of Technology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University, which all have deep links with the Israeli Defence Forces and Israeli weapons companies.
At Melbourne University students have occupied the South Lawn since last Thursday, demanding the university divest and cut ties with all weapons manufacturers, including Lockheed Martin, Boeing, BAE Systems and Rosebank Engineering.
They have also called on the university to implement a complete boycott of companies complicit in the genocide in Gaza, and to release a statement condemning the systematic destruction of every university in Gaza, as well as the targeted killing of academics and students.
Students at ANU in Canberra and University of Queensland (UQ) began encampments this week.
At ANU, “The action has generated much more support than we first expected,” one of the campers, Finnian Colwell, told Solidarity. “We saw around 40-50 people come to the first meeting where we decided to set up the camp.
“The demands of the camp are that the university cut ties with Israel and that Australia cut ties with Israel.
“We recently found out that the ANU invests around $500,000 in three weapons companies, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, that all provide parts to the F-35 fighter jets that are used to bomb Gaza.”
At UQ the camp began with a protest against Boeing’s research institute on campus, which works on weapons technologies including hypersonic missiles. Another camp is launching at Monash University in Melbourne tomorrow.
“There’s a lot of interest from students,” in the encampment at Sydney Uni, Angus said.
The university has decided to let the encampment stay for now after a massive police crackdown on campus in 2020 caused it severe embarrassment.
“The university sent out an all-student email that didn’t mention what the protest was about, it just said that there was a protest encampment. But it gave permission for us to be here, so long as we follow a set of rules the University has set out.
“Off that more students have felt confident to come and camp.”
Ruby Halliday told Solidarity how the Political Economy Society joined in, “The first night we were here until 11pm, but we didn’t have a tent. The next morning we came back and set up camp, we’ve been here since then. Now we’ve set up another tent.
“We’ve got in touch with [Professor Emeritus] Frank Stillwell, who was a big part of the struggle for the political economy department on the campus, against the university administration back in the 1970s primarily. He’s going to come and do a talk to show solidarity.
“We’ve posted on our social media every day, about how it’s growing. Today we did announcements in all the ECOP [Political Economy] Classes.”
As the encampment began its second week, the Sydney Uni Muslim Students Association joined in as well, setting up more tents across the lawns.
Spreading support
“Within the broader student body, there’s a lot of passive support,” Angus said.
“People have seen what’s happening at Columbia and they’re inspired that there’s something like that here. The reception has been particularly good from students who have classes in the Quadrangle, who walk through the encampment to go into class and explain to people what’s happening afterwards.”
Student activists are using the encampment as a base to go out and campaign among wider layers of students.
“It’s a really good way to gain support for Palestine and to make sure that more people are involved in an active way.
“One of the best things to do with the encampment is to talk to everyone who walks past.
“We try to ask students if they have classes that we can make announcements in to build support in the broader student body.”
There have been regular protests, with around 150 people repeatedly marching on the F23 admin building. Every day there have been teach-ins and other activities, with speakers including Palestinian academic Lana Tatour and talks on Anzac Day and Australian imperialism, alongside film screenings at night.
Students at Sydney University march from the encampment to the admin building
Last Friday Families for Palestine organised a kids excursion to the encampment with face painting and a Tantreez Palestinian embroidery workshop.
“We can combine the encampment with broader initiatives around the Palestine movement, such as bringing contingents from the encampment to the Sunday rallies. We’re going to bring a contingent meeting at the encampment to May Day, when unions are on strike at Belmore Park, and try and inject the politics of this into the action that workers are taking,” Angus said.
“There’s a vote in the next meeting of the NTEU, the staff union, on 9 May about implementing a full institutional boycott of Israeli universities, and students at the encampment can support that vote.
“Connecting what students are doing here with the broader campaign, and making sure that a much wider layer of students support the campaign will be essential for ensuring that this continues and that we come out of it with a better movement for Palestine.”
By James Supple
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US declares Israeli units guilty of war crimes – but whitewashes them as ‘individual’ acts
US laws ban sale of arms if they might be used in war crimes – but there will be no pause
The US government has declared five Israeli army units guilty ‘gross violations of human rights’, according to the State Department.
However, while going through the motions of attributing guilt, the US has simultaneously whitewashed the IDF’s systematic genocide and war crimes by describing the crimes as “individual incidents of gross violations of human rights” against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank before the current genocidal onslaught – and claiming that the units in question have taken ‘remedial’ corrective measures.
No findings have been made against the IDF for its slaughter of more than 40,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza, mostly women and children and including summary executions and deliberate bombing of families, schools and hospitals – despite the recent discovery of mass graves in Gaza and the advice of senior government officials to the State Department that Israel is committing war crimes with US-made weapons.
State Department spokespeople have told journalist that it has found no evidence that Israel is committing war crimes in its slaughter since 7 October. The US government is currently trying to stop the International Criminal Court issuing international arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli ministers.
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Breaking: Columbia University ‘will not divest from Israel’
University president continues capitulation to Israeli pressure
The student protest camp for Gaza at Columbia has been assaulted several times by police
Columbia University in New York will not divest its investments in Israeli firms and firms that supply weaponry to Israel, according to the university’s president Minouche Shafik, despite demands from thousands of its students who are protesting in solidarity with the Palestinian people and against Israel’s genocide. Shafik, echoing the narrative of Israel lobbyists, has even claimed that the protests have made the university unsafe for Jewish students, even though Jewish students and faculty members are playing a leading role in the protests, as if the feelings of some students, who don’t like to be confronted with the reality that a country they support is engaged in genocide, are more important than stopping mass murder of women and children.
The announcement continues Shafik’s shame after she failed to challenge a narrative spouted by pro-Israel lawmakers during her questioning by politicians – and claimed a pro-Palestine professor at the university had been sacked and would never teach at Columbia again, a claim denied by Professor Mohamed Abdou.
Columbia is one of a string of universities across the US that have shamed themselves by calling in armed police to arrest and disperse protests against the genocide in Gaza. Some, parroting the pro-Israel lobby, have even accused the students of ‘siding with terrorists’.
Meanwhile, Israel continues to slaughter hundreds of Palestinians daily, mostly women and children – and the US is trying to block a planned warrant by the International Criminal Court for the arrest of Israel’s war criminal prime minister and other ministers for Israel’s war crimes.
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US trying to stop ICC issuing Netanyahu arrest warrant despite war crimes advice
‘Non-stop’ diplomatic push to save far-right Israeli PM even though senior US officials have said he’s breaking international law
The Biden government is trying to stop the International Criminal Court (ICC) issuing a warrant for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, according to Israeli and international media.
Israeli news site Walla has described Netanyahu’s ‘non-stop’ phone calls to the White House to try to get the arrest warrant arrest warrant cancelled and Biden and his pro-Israel fundamentalist Secretary of State Antony Blinken are said to be in agreement – despite ‘senior US officials’, in documents exposed by news agency Reuters, advising Blinken that Israel’s claims not to be committing war crimes with US-made weapons are not ‘credible or reliable’.
The ICC has been criticised for the level of US influence on its actions, even though the US is not a signatory to its authority and has previously sanctioned ICC officials for trying to bring US citizens before the court for alleged crimes. Despite this, Netanyahu is said to be in a panic over the prospect of an ICC arrest warrant, which would oblige signatory countries to hold him if he appears on their territory.
Many of the airstrikes in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, including devastating attacks on hospitals that killed hundreds of civilians at a time, have been attributed to Israel’s use of US-made ‘Hellfire’ and other missiles. The news of the expected arrest warrant appears to have been ignored by many UK ‘mainstream’ media outlets.
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Israeli AI ‘using WhatsApp data’ to target Gaza families for bomb strikes
‘Lavender’ AI set to prioritise hitting targets at home with their families and is said to be using WhatsApp data for its process – but how is Israel getting hold of it?
Israel’s AI system for targeting people for murder in Gaza uses WhatsApp data among its targeting criteria, according to a report in the Israeli 972 magazine and analysis by Paul Biggar of Tech for Palestine.
The platform is marketed as encrypted ‘end to end’, supposedly offering complete security, and WhatsApp told Middle East Monitor that:
WhatsApp has no backdoors and we do not provide bulk information to any government. For over a decade, Meta has provided consistent transparency reports and those include the limited circumstances when WhatsApp information has been requested. Our principles are firm – we carefully review, validate and respond to law enforcement requests based on applicable law and consistent with internationally recognized standards, including human rights.
However, a 2021 Freedom of Information Request to the FBI revealed that WhatsApp’s owner provides ‘near real-time’ information to US authorities – not the content of messages in most cases, but of who is sending and receiving messages:
WhatsApp will produce certain user metadata, though not actual message content, every 15 minutes in response to a pen register [a special type of federal request], the FBI says. The FBI guide explains that most messaging services do not or cannot do this and instead provide data with a lag and not in anything close to real time: “Return data provided by the companies listed below, with the exception of WhatsApp, are actually logs of latent data that are provided to law enforcement in a non-real-time manner and may impact investigations due to delivery delays.”
This potentially fits with reports in Israeli media that Israel is using an artificial intelligence platform named ‘Lavender’ to identify thousands of human targets in Gaza and flag them for an airstrike, with WhatsApp data forming a key part of the AI’s decision process, based on the WhatsApp connections of supposed ‘militants’ – and that the system is designed to kill large numbers of civilians. One source told 972 that when Lavender identifies a target, Israeli forces:
bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.
But of course, people are in WhatsApp groups of all kinds of topics and for all kind of reasons – and merely being in a group which has a ‘militant’ member is no guarantee of any kind of ‘guilt’ – even if the right to resist occupation is disregarded, as Israel, the US and UK do.
This pattern raises the possibility that Israel is obtaining WhatsApp data, whether directly or from the US government. Another possibility is that Israel is accessing the data through the notorious ‘Pegasus’ hacking programme that has been shown to target WhatsApp users, hijacking their phones through WhatsApp even, in the later Pegasus versions, if they don’t open any suspicious links. Journalists, politicians, human rights activists and others are known to have been hacked by governments using the software, including its use by the Saudis against dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
So serious was the issue that in 2021 tech firm Apple sued NSO, the maker of Pegasus, for targeting Apple users. NSO claimed that the software is used only against ‘terrorists’ – as which Israel, the UK, US and some others have designated Palestinian resistance groups – but there is clearly no guarantee that the definition of ‘terrorist’ is not extended in practice to anyone targeted by Israel. Biggar has accused WhatsApp’s owners of breaking international law and violating human rights.
Facebook, which belongs to the same Meta parent group as WhatsApp, has been accused of shutting down the circulation of pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist posts and treating the term ‘Zionist’ as hate speech. In 2020, the company admitted changing its algorithms to filter out left-wing news and analysis from users’ feeds while allowing right-wing propaganda to flow unchecked.
However Israel is accessing the WhatsApp data it is said to be using to target Palestinians and their families, undoubtedly a war crime, the news that it is doing so is a warning for those who dissent from Establishment narratives and use ‘private’ messaging services to do so.
Meta continued its statement to Middle East Monitor:
Our principles are firm – we carefully review, validate and respond to law enforcement requests based on applicable law and consistent with internationally recognized standards, including human rights.
The US and UK governments, however, continue to insist that Israel is following international law and recognised human rights standards, even as it murders tens of thousands of civilians, mostly women and children.
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Video: far-right Israeli minister Ben Gvir ‘rushed to hospital’ from crash after hiding from protesters
National security head hid from protesters, now he’s in hospital after car crash after running red light
Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has been ‘rushed to hospital’ after a car crash in central Israel, reportedly having run a red light leading to the crash. Middle East Eye has posted Instagram video of the crash scene:
The crash was caught on a safety camera at the lights:
The crash comes just a day after extremist, who praised illegal settlers who murdered Palestinians as ‘heroes’ and has spoken publicly about ‘clearing’ Gaza for Israeli settlement, refused to leave a building without armed police, out of fear of Israeli demonstrators demanding Israel negotiate the return of captives held in Gaza. Israel has killed at least seventy of its own citizens there during its genocide of Palestinians. Ben-Gvir then tried to cover for his fear by waving as he was hustled into a vehicle for his getaway:
Israeli press are reporting that he is only ‘lightly hurt’, unlike the tens of thousands of Palestinian women and children maimed and murdered under Israel’s apartheid, genocidal regime.
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