Critiques of Zionism by Jews

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“You murder thousands of Palestinians“

Anti-Zionist Rabbis in New York are confronted by Zionists as they protest for Palestine and to draw attention to the situation in Jabalia, Gaza.

Zachary Foster has a Ph.D in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. He is a Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights. He runs a digital archive called Palestine Nexus and writes a newsletter called Palestine, in Your Inbox.

Zach Foster is a fascinating guest: he hails from a strongly Zionist background, but it was through his scholarly research of Palestine that his perspective changed. We discuss the long history of Palestinians being dehumanised, why he thinks Israel makes Jewish people less safe, the history of Gaza and Hamas that's airbrushed, Israel's history of using hunger as a weapon of war, genocidal sentiments in Israel - and so much more

Antony Lerman went from living on a kibbutz in Israel and serving with the IDF to becoming a formidable critic of the Zionist movement. He has unique insight into anti-Zionism, which he believes is often falsely conflated with anti-Semitism --- a move that allows Israel to suppress Palestinians and critics of Netanyahu's assault on Gaza.

Read Antony's latest article on our website: Weaponising antisemitism: The gift that keeps on giving: "Apologists for Israel’s brutality against Palestinians in Gaza are continuing to use the past persecution of Jews to neutralise criticism of Israel," 14 February 2024

You can buy his books from Pluto Press: Antony Lerman

Antony Lerman is Senior Fellow at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue in Vienna and Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at Southampton University. He is the author of The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist: A Personal and Political Journey (Pluto, 2012) and editor of Do I Belong? (Pluto, 2017).