The Broken Promise of a Promised Land

Zionism . . . promotes the narrative that the Nazi holocaust is exceptional in human history - despite it being one of many holocausts from Native Americans North and South to Armenia and Rwanda. It sets Jews apart from the victims and survivors of other genocides instead of uniting us with them . . .Billions of US dollars flow annually to Israel to sustain the occupation and Israels sophisticated and brutal army. The war machine they fund is a leader in the global arms industry which drains resources craved by a world in desperate need of water food health care housing and education.- International Jewish anti-Zionist NetworkCharter. . .Palestinian dispossession and occupation are by design. Zionism has meant profound trauma for generations systematically separating Palestinians from their homes land and each other. Zionism in practice has resulted in massacres of Palestinian people ancient villages and olive groves destroyed families who live just a mile away from each other separated by checkpoints and walls and children holding onto the keys of the homes from which their grandparents were forcibly exiled . . . - Jewish Voice for Peace in its Approach to ZionismWhat will be seared into the consciousness of the world will be the image of Israel as a blood-stained monster ready at any moment to commit war crimes and not prepared to abide by any moral restraints . . .- Uri Avnery former Zionist Irgun paramilitary member