March 05, 2005

Jews against Zionism

I just found this whilst looking for a book by Lenni Brenner. It's a web page with transcripts and downloads from a talk organised by Roland Rance and me back in 2003. We were launching a group around the idea, Jews against Zionism, for leaflet drops at demos and talks. For what was intended to be the first event, we hired a room for 40 people at the University of London Union. As it turned out we had to move to a room for 80 and still there were people standing.

The speakers that night were Alice Coy of the ISM, film maker Haim Bresheeth, and Lenni Brenner, author of exposés of zionist collaboration with the nazis including Zionism in the age of the Dictators. and 51 Documents.

Alice Coy

Life in Rafah

I went to Rafah, in the Gaza strip. Its a refugee camp of over 140,000 people piled in to a village of 300 people. Two thirds of the children there are anaemic, and that's not because they don't have enough food but that they are too terrified to eat or process the food that they are getting properly. Over half of them wet their beds, hundreds are shot. You meet children walking around that are so traumatized they can't communicate like normal people any more...


Haim Bresheeth

Understanding the Occupation

Most of my family was destroyed in the holocaust - in different concentration camps and in the Warsaw ghetto and I was born in a refugee camp in Italy immediately after the war... I'm not saying this in order to elicit some sympathy because this is nonsensical on this audience [mostly Jewish] obviously. I'm saying this in order to explain why its so easy for me to understand the Palestinians in Gaza and in the rest of Palestine. It is very easy for me to understand them because they live in a combination of a concentration camp and Warsaw ghetto for so many years that we have stopped counting...


Lenni Brenner

Israeli Navy Founded By Mussolini Fascists

Jabotinsky is the founder of the Zionist revisionist movement which is the ideological heart of the Likud party. He personally had lived in Italy for three years. He began to realize that the British were just using the Zionists - sort of like they use the Protestants in Northern Ireland so he began to look for another mandatory to take over - it had to be a rival to Britain. So sure enough he began to orient towards Mussolini and eventually Mussolini set up a squadron of Betar - the youth group of the Zionist revisionists at Mussolini's neighbourhood academy. From their [Zionist] publication in Italy at the time:

"...this year there are forty nine cadets - our human material is extremely intelligent, the majority are university students and thirty of them belong to fascist university youth..."

In other words they were members of the Italian fascist movement - they weren't just pro-Mussolini - they joined his movement. All of them became founders of the Israeli navy - it was founded by members of the Italian fascist party!


And here are the closing remarks by the meeting's Chairman, Roland Rance:
Zionism is Against Jews

For many of us the reason that we are adamantly opposed to Zionism is because, yes it's committing crimes against the Palestinian people, yes because it's condemning Jews in Israel to a life of insecurity and danger, and, yes because the Zionist movement ultimately said that Jewish life outside Palestine is not worth savings - the first president of the state of Israel, Chaim Weisman, referred to the Jews of Europe as human dust not worth saving. For many of us the reason for our adamant opposition to Zionism is not only though it is as well seeing what it is doing to the Palestinians and seeing that there cannot be any solution, any just solution, any lasting solution in the middle-east that doesn't undo the wrong that has been done by the Zionist movement to Palestinians, but also because we say that, if there is again an upsurge of hatred against Jews, the Zionists will not be the ones to protect us - they will be the ones to betray us. And for me certainly its an absolute fundamental for my whole political existence that Zionism is not just something I am opposed to - it is my enemy. This is part of the reason why we are taking steps to establish an organisation Jews Against Zionism


For further information on Jews against Zionism email: info@jewsagainstzionism.org

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