Thank you, dear Rima. The istory of Israeli anti-Zionism has been buried very deeply. It is a tragedy that sane voices were eradicated form Israeli society almost completely. Here is one article regarding the history of Anti-Zionism in Israel, from 2018: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e17-anti-zionism-in-israel-part-1/
I want to share the words by Daniel's father, Moshe Machover. "As we have seen, Zionism is a political ideology-cum-project. The State of Israel - a product of the Zionist project as well as an instrument for its continuation and extension - is, like any state, a political entity.
Israel has been in military occupation of the West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip for over 50 years and is exercising harsh oppression over millions of Palestinian Arabs, who have no civil or national rights. It has been avidly stealing their land and colonizing it with illegal, exclusively Jewish settlements. Israel may not be worse in this respect than other states that ruled over other nations and colonized their land - for example, Britain in its former colonies, such as Kenya.6 But Israel is also no better than other colonizing states, nor is there any reason to expect it to be any better: colonization has its own logic, and generally involves harsh, racist oppression and occasional atrocities, justified by the ‘need to keep order among the natives’. Israeli officially inspired and fomented racism is by now widely known and condemned.
Opposition to Zionism and to the colonizing regime and policies of Israel is therefore a legitimate political position. It only becomes illegitimate if it is motivated or accompanied by illegitimate aims or arguments: for example, such as stem from generalized hatred or prejudice against Jews as Jews. But such illegitimate motives or arguments need to be proven before accusing an opponent of Zionism and Israel’s regime of ‘anti-Semitism’; they cannot simply be assumed or taken for granted. In the absence of proof, accusation or insinuation that anti-Zionist discourse and opposition to the Israeli regime are per se ‘anti-Semitic’ is a despicable calumny." - Moshe Machover, Israeli anti-Zionist, written 25 years ago.
