“Zionism is not Judaism – it is a European colonial project rooted in racism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and settler colonialism.”
— Vienna Declaration at the First Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress, 13 June 2025.
“Neither Herzl nor Hitler”
— Chanted in unison by all delegates at the opening of the first Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Vienna (13-15 June 2025). The location of the event was chosen for significant for historical reasons – being where Theodore Herzl formed the ideology that became modern Zionism, as well as Adolf Hitler’s birthplace – and for modern reasons – Austria, alongside Germany, provides unconditional support for Israel, a symptom of its guilt over the Holocaust.
“Zionism is based on the fallacy that there exists a single nation encompassing all the world’s Jews. How can Zionism claim that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, since the only attribute shared by all Jews is Judaism, a religion and not an attribute of nationhood in any modern sense of the word? Jews can belong to various nations – a Jew may be French, American, Indian, Argentinian, and so forth – but being Jewish excludes other religious affiliations. Thus, this essay argues, the Zionist claim that all the world’s Jews constitute a single distinct national entity is an ideological myth, invented as a misconceived way of dealing with the persecution and discrimination suffered by European Jews, in particular. Indeed, from its earliest iterations and up to the present day, Zionism – a colonising project – has been fuelled by an inverted form of anti-Semitism: if, as it claims, Israel acts on behalf of all Jews everywhere, then all Jews must be collectively held responsible for the actions of that state – clearly an anti-Semitic position.”
— Moshe Machover in ‘An Immoral Dilemma: The Trap of Zionist Propaganda’, Journal of Palestine Studies. 2018; 47(4): 69–78.
“Judaism, as most people know, is a religious and cultural tradition that dates back over 5,000 years. Zionism is a political ideology dating from the emergence of ethno-nationalism in mid-1800s Europe. Originally an Evangelical Christian idea to rid European society of Jews and hasten the Apocalypse, it was weaponised by Britain to install a proxy in the Middle East as the Ottoman – and British – Empires crumbled. Given the fact that Israel appears to be engineering its own spectacular demise, there is room for hope that Zionism won’t survive its 200th birthday. We Jews would do well to reflect on which historical, theological, and moral current we wish to follow.”
— Michelle Berkon in her submission to the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities (published in August 2024 and titled ‘Inquiry into Anti-semitism: A Trojan Horse for the Israel Lobby’).
“Zionism is based on lies and propaganda – beginning with its ideological slogan: “A land without a people for a people without a land.”
— Unknown
“The greatest myth about Zionism and the State of Israel is that the point of the enterprise is to protect Jews.”
False.
“The goal of Zionism was to create a Jewish State in a land that was 95% non-Jewish. To do that, many, many, many Jews needed to (and still need to) sacrifice their lives to that end.
That’s why 1% of the Jews in Palestine died in 1948. 6,000 Jews had to die to make a Jewish state possible in a land that was at that time two-thirds non-Jewish.
That’s why, in the 1950s, Israel built 108 civilian centres in border areas to serve as a first line of military defence, including towns like Nahal Oz, short for Nahlayim Mul Aza, “Nahal soldiers across from Gaza,” which tragically ended up serving the purpose for which it was built, to put Israeli civilians on the frontlines as human shields.
That’s why military service is required for most Jews in Israel – the state needs more and more Jewish bodies to sacrifice their own lives to ensure acquiescence to the project of Jewish domination in Palestine.
That’s also why Israel invoked Hannibal directive on October 7th, killing dozens if not hundreds of Israelis on that day. Jewish bodies were the sacrificial lambs necessary to ensure the Jewish State could maintain its strategic domination over the Palestinians.
And that is also why the Israeli hostages and prisoners of war have been left to die, too. The State of Israel cares about its own preservation and domination, not about saving Jews.
For 76 years, the State of Israel has proven itself to be a total menace to the Jewish people. I call on all people who care about the wellbeing of the Jewish people to stop arming Israel and stop supporting this genocidal state. The very survival of the Jewish people depends on it.”
— Zachary Foster (2024).
“Israel is sustained by lies. The lie that Israel wants a just and equitable peace and will support a Palestinian state. The lie that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. The lie that Israel is an “outpost of Western civilisation in a sea of barbarism”. The lie that Israel respects the rule of law and human rights. ”
— Chris Hedges in ‘Israel’s Culture of Deceit’ (2023).
“Zionists are indignant because for decades Israel – and the racist political ideology that drives it – has enjoyed “almost unchallenged hegemony in liberal ‘establishment’ discourse”, as Edward Said wrote. Zionism is now finally being interrogated from the “standpoint of its victims.”
“And naturally, Zionists are distressed. It is impossible to continue to monopolise victimhood when the state they support is so brazenly committing crimes against humanity, and the world is finally taking notice. Zionists genuinely do not care about anti-semitism because of the cheap, patently false conflation between anti-Zionism and anti-semitism. As the silenced anti-Zionist Jews around the argue, Zionism is the agent of anti-semitism.”
— Anonymous
