The only just and workable solution to the problem of the occupation of Palestine is to end the Zionist colony.
But how could the Palestinians accomplish the monumental feat of living in peace with genocidal Zionists?
‘De-Zionization’ is clearly necessary, but what would it involve?
After the end of World War II in 1945, it was clear that the entirety of German society would need to be cleansed of Nazi influences and effects and that the Germans would need to be re-educated.
A key problem was what to do with the millions of Germans who had belonged to one Nazi organization or another and how to ‘denazify’ them.
Judges from Britain, America, Russia, and France, assemble in Nuremberg’s courthouse empowered to impose sentence of death, or such punishment as it may consider just, the tribunal sits in judgment upon 20 leaders of the Nazi Party.
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Perhaps the most iconic part of the process was the Nuremberg tribunals at which leading Nazis were arraigned.
The tribunals also had a key lasting effect on international humanitarian law, which we can see in the recent ICJ judgment that Israel is plausibly committing genocide in Gaza.
In relation to Palestine, a large number of war criminals would need to be tried and sanctioned. The idea that they could ever commit genocide in Palestine must be firmly smashed.
Once the material support for racist ideas is removed, then the ideas themselves are starved of sustenance.
Once the British left most of Ireland in 1920 there were Unionists in the Irish Free State who were bitterly and obstinately committed to Ireland remaining a colony of Britain, however, after the declaration of a republic in 1948, and the reality of Irish independence, most Unionists gave up.
Within a generation they had come to think of themselves as Irish.
The lesson for Palestine is that material circumstances supporting Zionist ideology must change, then and only then, will it be possible to dismantle Zionism. ‘De-Zionization’ means, first of all, the dismantling of Zionist organizations.
This can be done by disbanding key organizations such that they cease to exist. Most obviously, this would include the World Zionist Organization, and all of its affiliates all over the world.
But there are Zionist organizations which can have legitimate functions in society, should they be effectively ‘de-Zionized’.
Today, there are many Jewish groups that could be encouraged to disaffiliate from the genocidal ideology of Zionism. There is no reason to close schools, synagogue student groups, which can, and should, be encouraged to disavow Zionism and to provide places of learning, worship or representation for all.
But make no mistake; currently active Zionist groups would have to cease to exist.
