The genocide in Gaza has brought millions more to the anti-Zionist position; the prospects for building a radical and effective anti-Zionist movement are better than ever. Zionism cannot be reformed; it must be ended.
A recent British opinion poll reveals that 54% of 16 to 24 year-olds agree with the statement “Israel should not exist.”
De-Zionization needs to focus not just on Palestine, but the UK and everywhere else Zionism rears its head.
There are many things that we can do now.
We must ascertain which groups are most complicit and which can be most easily targeted.
There are four key areas which need attention.
First, direct action needs to be taken. Palestine Action is at the cutting edge of the resistance to the Zionist war machine in the UK.
In the last few years, it has launched scores of actions to occupy, cripple and decommission arms firm factories and offices, as well as targeting companies involved in serving the arms industry and helping commit genocide in Palestine.
In recent months, Palestine Action has taken action to disable arms firms and their suppliers virtually every day, and sometimes on several occasions on a particular day.
Second, we need to build information warfare. The weapons in this war are pro-Palestine independent media outlets like the Grayzone Electronic Intifada, and, of course, Palestine Declassified.
It’s a sign of effectiveness when Zionists devote significant resources to countering our activities, such as when the Center for Countering Digital Hate attempted to criticize Palestine declassified.
Third, we must directly target British charities complicit in genocide. Key Zionist families directly support charities which fund the genocidal occupation forces like Beit Halochem or the UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel’s Soldiers (AWIS)
In these cases, the Wolfson family, which owns Argos, Homebase, and the credit company Experian, and the Lewis family, which owns clothes retailer River Island, are implicated.
There is a branch of Next or River Island in almost every British city.
Four is the issue of British recruits. According to a 2016 report by Israel’s ministry of military affairs, British recruits make up some 5% of foreign recruits, perhaps 1,700 British citizens in total, all of whom must be detained and de-Zionized.
South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor had the right approach when she put South Africans who fight in the IOF on notice.
“We are ready. When you come home, we are going to arrest you.”
Zionism must be dismantled, and we can only do this by building a mass anti-Zionist Movement.
