The State of Israel was founded on racism, discrimination and Jewish exclusivism
INTERNATIONAL JEWISH ANTI-ZIONIST NETWORK
– IJAN
September 2020
1.- The International Jewish
Anti-Zionist Network hereby expresses its repudiation and rejection of the new
definition of “antisemitism” that is being promoted by the International
Holocaust Remembrance Alliance as we consider it to be a subsidiary instrument
of the zionist movement and the State of Israel, with its objectives being:
a. to reinforce the mythology and the whole set of
ideological operations constructed to justify their exclusivist project
b. to silence any criticism towards zionism and the
State of Israel.
2.- The primary goal of the
definition proposed by the IHRA is to establish an equivalence between
antisemitism and antizionism.
a. It is a political and semiological operation
designed to confuse the public and
b. muddy the political foundations of criticism
towards zionism and the State of Israel
3.-We in IJAN hold that zionism is not representative of
the whole of world Jewry and that in no
way, shape or form can criticism of this ideology or of the State of Israel be
considered equivalent to “antisemitism”.
4.- What is zionism then and what
are the criticisms that can be levelled at it?
a. It is a movement, an ideology and a project born
at the end of the nineteenth century amidst the rise and under the influence of
European Judeophobia. It is therefore, not a constitutive part of Judaism.
b. It represents a settler-colonial project, which
has slowly conquered and colonized Palestine, bringing about a process of
ethnic cleansing of its native population which goes on to this very day.
c. It is an exclusivist and racist project, tied to
imperialism and anchored in the orientalist prejudice towards Palestinians and
Arabs in general. It practices and promotes islamophobia. It relies as well on
the support of millions of followers of Christian zionism, in politically right
wing and far right organizations.
d. It set itself up as a form of tribal and
ethno-religious nationalism, which aims: to turn the Jewish people, a cultural
collective which has always been historically and linguistically diverse, into
a national and homogenous entity standing behind a process of conquest and
colonization
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gather the entirety of the world Jewry with the objective of creating a new
community (a nation) in a new State in the Middle East, in the lands of native
Palestinians, claiming therein supposed “historical rights”.
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mobilize the Jewish communities in order to support its project and the State
of Israel’s policies.
e.
It denies and repudiates the existence of other Jewish identities: non-nationalist
identities, Yiddish cultural identities, and most of all, non-European Jewish
identities (Arab Jews, Persian Jews, etc.)
f. It builds an apartheid regime which denies
(with differing degree) the civil and political rights of the Palestinian
people that live today in the State of Israel and of those living in occupied
Gaza and the West Bank. And it denies, furthermore, the right of return of
millions of diasporic Palestinian refugees around the world.
g.
It stands in violation of basic human
rights.
h.
It has been in the past, and is currently allied to and a collaborator with
authoritarian and anti-popular regimes (especially in matters of security and
the military).
5.- What is antizionism?
a. Antizionism is a broad movement, containing within
it a variety of standpoints: religious, secular, Marxist, anticolonial and
liberal.
b. The secular and progressive political
orientation taken by IJAN follows the logic of human rights and
internationalism. It repudiates Judeophobia and any other form of discrimination
(Islamophobia, racism against the Roma people, anti-Black racism, etc.). It
questions the ideological basis of the Zionist movement and the State of Israel
as a colonialist, exclusivist project of conquest and colonization in
Palestine, which illegitimately claims to be carried out in the name of the
entirety of the world Jewry.
6.-
What are the points and arguments IHRA deploys to silence criticisms of
Zionism, and why are
we in disagreement with them?
According
to the definition of IHRA,
A)
To
accuse Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged
priorities of the Jews of the world, than to the interests of the countries of
their citizenship
B)
To
consider Jews responsible for the acts of the State of Israel
Are
acts of antisemitism.
IJAN:
The elevation of Jewish identity, considered as a national identity above any
other form of social or collective grouping, is a central element of Zionist
ideology. Its creature, the State of Israel, arrogates to itself the
representation of all Jews in the world, seeing them as belonging to the
state’s actual or potential population.
C) Denying Jews the right to self-determination, for example, by claiming
that the existence of the State of Israel is a racist enterprise.
IJAN:
We do not consider the Zionist movement as a movement of emancipation, nor of
national liberation. We do not recognize the Jews of the world as a national
collective. The right to self-determination arises and applies to peoples oppressed
by colonialism, which is not the case with Judaism. Even if the Jews of the
world were thus oppressed, their right to self-determination could in no way be
exercised at the expense of another people and in violation of international
law.
We
maintain that the Zionist movement and the State of Israel are founded on
racism, discrimination and Jewish exclusivity. We maintain that a state, as an
institution, can never be the object of discrimination, but merely of
repudiation and criticism.
7.-
Finally, the IHRA's statement undermines the freedom of expression of those who
question the State of Israel and Zionism.
FOR
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