An anti-Zionist voice... This is how the "Jews for Palestine" network works to expose Israel's practices

LONDON -

Israeli violations and abuse of the Palestinian people prompted people of their own skin, who reject injustice and hope for a world where justice prevails, to oppose these practices and call for the restoration of the stolen rights of the Palestinians, and even stand up to the Zionist lobby in the West.

They have sought to form a network that brings them together to expose the Israeli practices under the name "Jews for Palestine", which are active in Britain, and whose organizers assert that anti-Semitism started from the West, stressing that the Israeli lobby in Britain crushes all who oppose it, in addition to their categorical refusal to be Israel is the exclusive spokesperson for Jews in the world.

And the head of "Jews for Palestine" David Cannon believes that the network is a Jewish anti-Zionist voice, promoting a boycott of Israeli products and calling for the imposition of appropriate sanctions on Israel, stressing that some Jews are against Israel, but they are afraid to hint at that or use terms such as Israel is an apartheid state or hesitate to Considering themselves against Zionism or declaring that Israel is a state founded on lies.

Cannon considered, in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net, that the 1948 Nakba was a catastrophe that could not have happened, calling for the necessity of punishing Israel for the Nakba and for the West to hold it accountable for all violent racist acts, "We are a Jewish organization that opposes what the Israelis are doing."

President of "Jews for Palestine": Anyone who criticizes Israel or Zionism is accused of anti-Semitism (Al-Jazeera)

He added that the Zionist Organization took advantage of the Holocaust during World War II in order to promote that the Jews wanted to feel safe in their country, and convinced the Jews that they would not be safe in their original homelands, and therefore the Jewish state must be established, and after the establishment of the State of Israel they applied the same criteria, “My children are theirs.” More right to go to Israel than the Palestinians who have lived on this land for centuries."

Cannon stressed that the Zionist movement's obtaining all this support from Europe and the United States is anti-Semitism in its best form, pointing out that the West did not want to receive Jewish refugees in their country during World War II, so politicians saw at the time that Israel's support would turn the Jewish refugees to another place. He changed their country, "This is very harmful and very discriminatory and racist, creating a new apartheid state."

Victims of criticism of Israel

The spokesman emphasized that the main engine behind the network's support for the Palestinian cause is indivisible human rights, pointing out that anyone who criticizes Israel or Zionism is accused of anti-Semitism, and the case of Pastor Stephen Sizer is the best witness to that.

The Church of England had banned Sizer due to allegations of "anti-Semitic activity" and criticism of "Israel" in a move that some considered a "bending to the historical religious establishment of the Zionist lobby." Such as marriage or communion services during this period.

Cannon enumerated many people who met the same fate as Sizer, such as British parliamentarian Chris Williamson, who had to apologize for his criticism of Israel, and former London mayor Ken Livingston, "They were completely crushed, as if this was a representation of the defenders of the Palestinian cause to be a lesson and an example for everyone who tries to defend the Palestinian people." ".

And he talked about double standards in the West in dealing with freedom of opinion and expression. At a time when the French comedian Dieudini Mabala was prevented from presenting satirical shows critical of Israel, the Charlie Hebdo newspaper was allowed to publish cartoons insulting to the Muslim Prophet Muhammad, "may God bless him and grant him peace."

Cannon criticized the great difficulty faced by the network in Britain in publishing letters of denunciation against Israeli practices, saying, "We were told that media platforms refused to publish this because of publishing policies."

For his part, Professor Leigh Levidaw - one of the network's founders - said that the Zionist movement was founded on a secular basis. The founders of the Zionist movement were "atheists", and at that time a sarcastic slogan appeared in describing the ideology, "God does not exist, but He gave us the land because we are the chosen people."

Levidaw added, in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net, that these slogans are contradictory, as they did not believe in God, but they needed a written justification from the Torah to expel the Palestinians from their land, and Orthodox Jewish branches have already opposed it, and as soon as the matter was transferred to a Jewish state, all the Orthodox viewed them as a clear sacrilege. .

Lividao: The network sponsors initiatives that shed light on the Palestinian cause (Al-Jazeera)

Mixing between Judaism and Orthodoxy

He continued, "But gradually, settlements with Israel began to appear by resorting to religious justifications that mixed Judaism and Orthodoxy, and after that the shift began from sacrilege to reconciliation with the existence of the state."

Regarding the projects launched by the network, he said that it was launched last May as a participatory project in the name of peacemakers between Muslims, Christians and Jews, represented by the Islamic Organization for Human Rights, the Jewish Voice for Palestine and the prominent Christian pastor, Sizer.

He added that the initiative aims to hold meetings that shed light on how the people of the three religions in Andalusia lived in peace, and other discussions on how to be more effective in serving the Palestinian cause.

Levidaw explained that the network is working to expose the intended disinformation against the Palestinians, "and narrate the hypothesis that the Jewish people have the right to own land and all those disturbing claims are allegations that have nothing to do with Judaism as a religion."

He concluded that anti-Semitism is being used as an arbitrary weapon to crush politicians who support the Palestinian cause, not only at the level of individuals, but many Islamic organizations that have tried to oppose or consider criticizing Israel have been silenced.