Jewish Voices
Jewish voices speaking out against Zionism and the genocide
B’Tselem
B’Tselem is an Israeli human rights organization whose stated goals are to document human rights violations in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.
This is Apartheid
“Israel’s regime of apartheid and occupation is inextricably bound up in human rights violations. B’Tselem strives to end this regime, as that is the only way forward to a future in which human rights, democracy, liberty and equality are ensured to all people, both Palestinian and Israeli, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.”
October 2022, B’Tselem
Violating Moral Principles
“There are rules and laws in war. Israel does not deny this, and even purports to be following them. Yet in this war, Israel has removed all restraints, committing war crimes and violating fundamental moral principles. In an attempt to absolve itself of responsibility, Israel says Hamas is responsible for the killing of civilians by using them as human shields and firing from within the civilian population. But the responsibility lies with those who do the killing. The fact that Hamas is committing crimes in no way relieves Israel of its obligations, which it is criminally breaching.”
08 November 2023, B’Tselem
Jewish Voice for Peace
Erasing of Jewish Identity
Throughout the Jewish diaspora, we envision our communities beginning to heal from the Zionist movement’s attempts to dilute and erase many of our diasporic histories, languages, and traditions. We envision replacing Jewish institutions that use fear to keep us in line, and the proliferation of thriving and vibrant Jewish communities building safety for ourselves and all our neighbors, grounded in a vision of dignity, power, and love for all people.
Edwin Montagu
Edwin Montagu was one of the leading Jewish members of the party to which Arthur Balfour belonged, only the third Jewish minister in British history
Balfour declaration is Anti-Semitic
Edwin Montagu commented on the draft of the Balfour’s declaration in his famous memo:
“I wish to place on record my view that the policy of His Majesty’s Government is anti-Semitic and in result will prove a rallying ground for Anti-Semites in every country in the world.”
August 23, 1917, Montagu Memo on the Anti-Semitism of the British Government
Albert Einstein
Fascist Massacres
”…Terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants (240 men, women, and children) and kept a few of them alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem. Most of the Jewish community was horrified at the deed, and the Jewish Agency sent a telegram of apology to King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan. But the terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of this massacre, publicized it widely, and invited all the foreign correspondents present in the country to view the heaped corpses and the general havoc at Deir Yassin…The Deir Yassin incident exemplifies the character and actions of the Freedom Party. Within the Jewish community they have preached an admixture of ultranationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority.”
(The Freedom Party became part of the Lukid, the current the ruling party in Israel).
December 4, 1948. Letter to the New York Times
Hannah Arddent
Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a Jewish American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century.
Zionists will not be trusted
It is a deadly blow to those Jewish parties in Palestine itself that have tirelessly preached the necessity of an understanding between the Arab and the Jewish peoples. On the other hand, it will considerably strengthen the majority under the leadership of Ben-Gurion, which, through the pressures of many injustices in Palestine and the terrible catastrophes in Europe, have turned more than ever nationalistic … [As a result] Zionists have forfeited for a long time to come any chance of pourparlers with Arabs; for whatever Zionists may offer, they will not be trusted …
October 1944, Zionism Reconsidered
Zionists a tool for foreign powers
“On the other hand, the Zionists, if they continue to ignore the Mediterranean peoples and watch out only for the big far-away powers, will appear only as their tools, the agents of foreign and hostile interests. Jews who know their own history should be aware that such a state of affairs will inevitably lead to a new wave of Jew-hatred; the antisemitism of tomorrow will assert that Jews not only profiteered from the presence of the foreign big powers in that region but had actually plotted it and hence are guilty of the consequences.”
October 1944, Zionism Reconsidered
Noam Chomsky
Major Crime of the Modern Period
“I’ve been in Gaza … in between some of the Israeli attacks. It’s a … disgraceful crime … Over two million people basically imprisoned. No potable water to drink, the energy system, sewage systems destroyed by Israeli violence. Fishermen can’t go more than a couple of kilometres out beyond the sewage-infected waters: Israeli gunboats keep them in. That’s one of the major crimes of the modern period.”
April 2023. Q&A: Noam Chomsky on Palestine, Israel
Ilan Pappe
Ilan Pappe is noted Israeli Historian and the Director of European Center of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter.
Zionist Ethnic Cleansing
“The Zionist settler colonial project led to the Nakba of 1948. This ethnic cleansing continues to this very day, and was originally enabled by a strong coalition in the West that provided the infrastructure for the dispossession of Palestinians.”
October 18, 2023, The Palestine Chronicle
Genocidal Policies In Gaza
“The dehistoricisation of what is happening helps Israel pursue genocidal policies in Gaza.”
5th Nov 2023, Al Jazeera
Moshe Menuhin
Moshe Menuhin (1893–1982) was an American Jewish writer and teacher of Hebrew, he also the father of the world famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
Depraved and Predatory Colonialism
“Jewish people they are today the victims of political nationalism that still preaches predatory and depraved nationalism conquest of territory of others…the original crime that the dangerous cult of Jewish political nationalism that grew out of the 19th century and early 20th century, depraved and predatory colonialism and imperialism and German Nazism and that resulted in a political Zionism that still is today the same as it was before and still wants what it wanted in 1897 a greater Eretz Israel Empire are the expense of the indigenous, innocent Arab population of the Middle East”
Interview with Moshe Menuhin, circa 1975. YouTube
Isaac Asimov
I am not a Zionist
When Israel was founded in 1948 and all my Jewish friends were jubilant, I was the skeleton at the feast. I said, “We are building ourselves a ghetto. We will be surrounded by tens of millions of Muslims who will never forgive, never forget and never go away.”… But don’t Jews deserve a homeland? Actually, I feel that no human group deserves a “homeland” in the usual sense of the word. … I am not a Zionist, then, because I don’t believe in nations, and Zionism merely sets up one more nation to trouble the world.
1994. I, Asimov: A Memoir. New York: Doubleday. p. 380.