The world watches in horror the unfolding genocide against the Palestinian people committed by Zionism in partnership with the West. It is our obligation as Jews to take action, as this is done in our name. We must join our Palestinian brothers and sisters in their darkest hour, and work for decolonising Palestine!

Jews and people of Jewish descent everywhere - those whom the Zionist state claims to speak for – are coming together and uniting to declare the unwavering opposition to Zionism.

Since the First Zionist Congress over a century ago, Zionist leaders have claimed to speak on behalf of the entire world Jewry, thus holding Jews and Judaism hostage to Zionism, while permanently attempting to silence our opposition and trampling on the spiritual integrity of the Jewish religion. Jewish tradition, history and culture is totally opposed to genocide.

An impressive history of Jewish resistance to Zionism is as long as Zionism – it included Jewish religious communities as well as secular movements of Jewish descent, and the vehement Jewish opposition to the creation of the Zionist state from within Palestine itself.

Zionism is a crime against Judaism and the indigenous people of Palestine, and we are committed to putting an end to it. Over the years, it has been proven that Zionism, instead of protecting Jews, turned into a great danger by committing atrocious acts in the name of Jews and Judaism. Zionism claims the supremacy of Jews and thereby fully adopts the racist assumption inherent to antisemitism that insists on the “otherness” of Jews.

The Zionist settler-colonial entity denies even the most basic rights to the Palestinians. Zionism is responsible for colonialism, apartheid, ethnic-cleansing and genocide in the West Bank and in Gaza for more than eight decades. Fourteen million Palestinians worldwide are its direct victims. To the atrocities it commits we firmly say “Not in Our Name!” We are devoted to ending Zionism and we are devoted to the decolonisation of Palestine with our Palestinian partners!

Above all, Zionism is a crime against humanity. Dedicated to the oath of the survivors of Mauthausen concentration camp, handed down to us as testimony of resistance against Nazi fascism, we follow their universal legacy and reiterate their message:

“The permanence in the camp, lasting years, has reinforced in our minds the knowledge of the value of brotherhood among the people of all nations. True to these ideals, we make a solemn oath to continue to fight, firm and united, against imperialism and against the instigation of hatred between peoples.”

Together we will join forces at the first Jewish Antizionist Congress and united we will join the Palestinians in liberating Palestine, and building a just and equal society!

Judaism is not Zionism!

People of all backgrounds are invited.

Join us at the First Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress
People of all backgrounds are invited to join and support this call

Vienna, June 13th-15th 2025 / Sivan 17th-19th 5785 (Hebrew Date)

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Ronnie Barkan is an Israeli dissident, co-founder of Boycott from Within, Anarchists Against the Wall and Palestine Action member. On Nakba Day 2022 he participated in a direct action against the UK headquarters of Israel-based Elbit Systems. Elbit is Israel's #1 arms manufacturer and currently has boots on the ground in Gaza who help to carry out the genocide. Most recently Barkan was harassed by the German secret police following his Munich talk at Professor-Huber-Platz, where he connected the legacy of the White Rose who opposed Nazism with direct action in opposition to Zionism.

Donny Gluckstein is the son of an anti-Zionist Jewish Palestinian refugee father and Jewish South African mother. He is the author of several works that touch on the subject of jewish opposition to Zionism, jewish working class organizing etc.

Wieland Hoban is a composer, author and academic translator in the fields of philosophy, art music and literature as well as the author of articles in the scientific and journalistic fields. He is chairman of the Jewish Voice for Just Peace, which he also represents in the umbrella organizations EJP (European Jews for Palestine) and GJP (Global Jews for Palestine). His book “German Apartheid Politics” will be published in 2024.

Peter Eisenstein - is a Jewish American historian and filmmaker. He is a board member of the Norwegian Peace and Justice party, Fred og Rettferdighet, and a member of the Norwegian Jewish group, Jødiske Stemmer for Rettferdig Fred.
As an American, he is anti-imperialist, and as a Jew, he is anti-zionist. He stands against the Zionist state of Israel which is nothing but a European and now American settler colonial project.

Our speakers:

Iris Hefets was born Israel to a jewish family. Iris is workink as a psychoanalyst in Berlin. She is a board member of “Jüdische Stimme für einen gerechten Frieden”. She chose to exercise her constitutional rights and take a stand against Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians. She was detained by German authorities on the streets of Berlin simply for exercising her democratic right to protest.

Tony Greenstein is a Jewish anti-Zionist activist and founding member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods. In his latest book, 'Zionism During the Holocaust: The Instrumentalisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation', he analyses the historical link between anti-Semitism and Zionism and how Zionism is mercilessly exploiting the memory of the Holocaust today. Greenstein has written for numerous newspapers, including The Guardian's 'Comment is Free', The Brighton Argus, Brighton and Hove Independent, Tribune, Labour Briefing and Weekly Worker. He is also an active trade unionist and a member of Brighton & Hove Trades Council, UNITE and UNISON.

Reuven Abergel - was born in 1943 in Rabat, Morocco, the fourth of eight children. He immigrated to Israel with his parents and seven siblings in 1950. The family was sent to the immigrant tent camp in Pardes Hana. Later they moved to Musrara, a former Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem whose residents were forced to abandon their homes following the 1948 war. Reuven Abergel has been a social and political activist in Israel/Palestine for more than 50 years. After co-founding the Israeli Black Panthers, Abergel participated in numerous movements for social and political justice in Israel-Palestine, including the Peripheries Bloc of the 2011 social uprisings in Israel, as well as the Tarabut movement, which links social and political struggles in Israel. He lives in Jerusalem.

Oded Schechter is a philosopher and talmudist. He lives in Berlin and is the co-founder of the Berlin Makhloykes Center.

Professor Yaakov Rabkin is a professor emeritus of history at the Université de Montréal, author and public intellectual. His published works include studies of relations between science and technology, research on cultural aspects of science. He also contributed to the fields of Jewish and Israel studies. His book A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism was nominated for best French to English translation for "an important and timely work" at the 2006 Governor General's Awards.

Stephen Kapos – Stephen Kapos - Holocaust survivor: As a young boy, he was separated from his Jewish parents in war-torn Budapest. Hidden in children's homes under false papers, he lived in constant danger of being discovered by Hungarian fascists of the Arrow Cross Party. Stephen is an activist for Palestinian human rights and an active member of the Camden branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Standing up for Palestinians living under brutal occupation is particularly important to him - especially as a Holocaust survivor. “Palestinians live under an apartheid system, as recognized by Amnesty International and other major human rights organizations.” These are Stephen's political beliefs, which are recognized as protected characteristics under the Equalities Act 2010.

Salman Abu Sitta (online) is a Palestinian Nakba survivor and researcher. Abu Sitta, who was expelled from Palestine as a child in 1948, has dedicated his life to the Palestinian cause and engages in public debates with Israeli peace activists. Abu Sitta is the founder and president of the Palestine Land Society in London, which is dedicated to documenting the Palestinian land and people.

Professor Haim Bresheeth-Žabner - is a filmmaker, photographer and a film studies scholar, and a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London. He is past member of Matzpen, the first Anti-Zionist organisation, and founder of Jewish Network for Palestine. His books include the best-selling Introduction to the Holocaust , The Gulf War and the New World Order, and The Conflict and Contemporary Visual Culture in Palestine & Israel, special issue of Third Text . His films include the widely-shown State of Danger (1989, BBC2), London is Burning (2013) and Convivencia at the Turnpike (2015). His most recent book is An Army Like No Other: How the IDF Made Israel, published by Verso, 2020.
See Verso Website, and Book website.

Maya Rinderer - is a Communist and Jewish anti-Zionist activist with Judeobolschewiener*innen, and professionally working as a pre-doc assistant at the University of Vienna.

Ilan Pappé is an Israeli historian and professor at the University of Exeter and was previously a lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa. He is best known for his book ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

Andreas Wimmer Librarian, Marxist, founder of the “Voices for Neutrality” alliance, descendant of resistance fighters against the Nazi regime and Jewish victims of it

Ernst Wolrab Communist, former secretary of the concentration camp association who was removed because of his advocacy against apartheid, descendant of communist and Jewish victims of the Nazi regime

Dalia Sarig Co-founder of the “Not in our Name” initiative founded by Jews in Vienna and candidate on the GAZA list

The initiators: