Will IJAN become a household word? Here's hoping. It's the newly-launched International Jewish Anti-Zionist network. Not a lot of names on the website, (here's Jason Kunin in Toronto) but some inspiring leftish statements about Palestinian human rights and Israeli apartheid. Wonder who's behind this deal. These Jews say they want to kick up the conversation at synagogues and dinner tables over the High Holidays, and "stickering of stores selling Israeli products."
Just goes to show: Anti-Zionism is the new Zionism. It draws on the same dreamy, idealistic, deliverance energy as Zionism. And the old Zionist consensus really is beginning to fragment at the edges. Roll over Ben-Gurion, tell Jabotinsky the news! Excerpts:
Cracks
are appearing in the edifice of Zionism as in that of US world dominance
itself…. Around the world, the
movement in solidarity with the Palestine people
and in confrontation with the U.S.
and Israeli policy is gaining momentum…
We unequivocally support the Palestinian Right of Return. We call for a dismantling of the racist
Israeli law of return that privileges the rights of any person that the State
of Israel deems as Jewish to settle in Palestine
while excluding Palestinians and making them refugees…
We commit to support justice so that healing may take root. There is
much to heal: the wounds inflicted by the imposition and operation of colonial
rule in Palestine and the broader region; the traumas of the European
oppression of Jews that the Zionist project is exploiting; the fears and
deprivations suffered through years of bloodshed; the manipulations of culture
and resources used to exploit Mizrahi Jews and divide them from Palestinians;
and the continuing massacre, rape and dispossession of Palestinian people.
Thanks to Jack Ross.
