“Zionism is a false idol that takes our most profound biblical stories of justice and emancipation from slavery – the story of Passover itself – and turns them into brutalistic weapons of colonial land theft, roadmaps for ethnic cleansing and genocide”

[Canadian Jewish author Naomi Klein, ‘We need an Exodus from Zionism’, Guardian, 24 April, 2024]

Jews taking part in pro-Palestinian protests

Increasingly, Jews around the world are challenging the claim that Zionism owns their narrative. From marches in London to protests in campuses in America, Jews are demonstrating shoulder to shoulder with their Gentile brethren. In all of the demonstrations against the war on Gaza attended by the present writer here in the UK, both local and national, there has been a significant Jewish presence.

Pictured above: A protest outside a branch of McDonald’s in East London

Double Down News has produced the following video of Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, co-founder of Jewish Voice for Labour. The video shows Jews and non-Jews marching together at a recent pro-Palestinian demonstration in London:

Here is another video, also from Double Down News, featuring Jews proclaiming ‘Not in my name’ and who belie the false claim that Jews are not safe in London:

And this video features Elijah Kahlenberg, a Jewish student protestor at the University of Austin, Texas:

Hope for the Future

This Rabbi, also the ‘wrong type of Jew’, highlights how Jews found refuge in Muslim lands when they were persecuted in the past. And he mentions how all 5,000 Albanian Jews survived the Holocaust because Muslims hid them from the Nazis. He predicts how Jews and Muslims will again live together, as they did in the past, peacefully and in harmony “insha Allah”: