Join us at the
Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress

The world watches in horror the unfolding genocide against the Palestinian people committed by Zionism in partnership with the West. As Jews, it is our duty 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 freeing and decolonising Palestine! To achieve this just aim, we must have progressive organisations and individuals across the world with us, working against Zionist Apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide as the last devastating evidence of colonialism which must be terminated.

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

Since the First Zionist Congress over a century ago, Zionism claimed to speak on behalf of all Jews, while permanently attempting to silence our opposition to its constant crimes. Jewish tradition, history and culture is totally opposed to genocide.

The impressive history of Jewish resistance to Zionism is as long as Zionism – it included religious communities as well as secular movements of Jewish descent, and the vehement Jewish opposition to the creation of the Zionist state in 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 became clear that Zionism, instead of protecting Jews, placed them in great danger by committing atrocious acts in their name. Zionism is based on racial supremacy, adopting the very racist assumptions which are inherent to antisemitism – describing Jews as belonging to some chosen race – a notion which is fundamentally racist and which has no relation to Judaism.

The Zionist settler-colonial entity denies Palestinians their most basic rights. Zionism operates through colonialism, apartheid, ethnic-cleansing and genocide in Palestine Even before 1948. Fourteen million Palestinians worldwide are its direct victims. To Israel we firmly declare “Not in Our Name!” We are devoted to terminating Zionism and we are devoted to the decolonisation of Palestine under Palestinian leadership!

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 Anti-Zionist Congress and united we will join the Palestinians in liberating Palestine, and building a democratic, just and equal society for all!

People of all backgrounds are invited.

Joining forces with Palestinians and allies in the struggle against Zionism

Vienna, June 13-15th, 2025

Nakba Day Statement from the Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress

May 15, 2025

Today, on Nakba Day, we commemorate not only the catastrophic ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948, but we affirm what Palestinians have always known: the Nakba is not a matter of the past—it is ongoing and hasn’t stopped ever since. From the
pre-meditated ethnic cleansing of hundreds of villages in 1948, to the forced exile and denial of return to generations of refugees—who constitute the majority of all Palestinians, to the current genocidal campaign in Gaza, Zionism has always been a project of erasure and racial domination. What is happening today is not a deviation from Zionism—it is its very essence being live-streamed for the whole world to see. READ MORE... HERE

Latest:

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.

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.

Professor Yakov Rabkin (online) 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.

Lamis Deek, an attorney and human rights advocate specializing in defending Arab & Muslim community members, activists and organizers against governmental attack. Lamis is a long time member of Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the Arab Muslim American Federation, and the National Lawyers Guild. She is co-founder of the US Palestine Community Network.

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.

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.

Katie Halper - is a writer, filmmaker and host from and based in New York City. She is the host of the podcast, YouTube show and WBAI radio show “The Katie Halper Show” and co-Host of the podcast and YouTube show “Useful Idiots.”
Katie was first censored by The Hill TV and then fired from its morning broadcast, “Rising,” after writing a monologue in which she stood up for US Representative Rashida Tlaib and stated that Israel was, indeed, an apartheid state.
She is currently working on a documentary about Jewish Holocaust survivors speaking out against the genocide in Gaza and is the director of the forthcoming award-winning documentary “Commie Camp”, about Camp Kinderland, a summer camp founded by secular Jewish socialists in the 1920s which still exists. She was the recipient of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press's Women and Media Award in 2022, and the American Muslims for Palestine's Leadership Annual Award in 2023. Katie has written for outlets including Rolling Stone, The Nation, The Guardian, New York Magazine and more.

Dr. Sami Ayad - born in Jaffa, a victim of the original ethnic cleansing of Palestine (Nakba), is a medical doctor and chairman of the Palestinian Community in Austria.

Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian physician, academic, and writer. She has been a political activist for Palestine since the 1970s, and has written widely on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Her recent book, One State: the Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel (2023) encapsulates her vision for a shared and equitable state as a an end to the conflict.

Rima Hassan is a French-Palestinian jurist and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with La France Insoumise, part of The Left group in the European Parliament. Born in the Neirab refugee camp in Syria, she moved to France at age 10 where. she studied international law. Her PhD deals with legal frameworks in refugee camps. In 2019, she founded the Observatory of Refugee Camps (OCR), an NGO focused on global refugee camp governance. She has worked with the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons, served as a Rapporteur at the National Court of Asylum, and co-directed a law seminar at iReMMO. She has also served on expert committees related to migrant rights and the Marianne Initiative. In 2023, Forbes named her one of its “40 Women of the Year.”

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

IDr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of 'The Palestine Chronicle'. He is the author of six books. His latest book, co-edited with Ilan Pappé, is ‘Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out’. His other books include ‘My Father was a Freedom Fighter’ and ‘The Last Earth’. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA)

• Dalia Sarig, initiator of the congress, co-founder of NOT IN OUR NAME Austria

• Tarkan Tek, historian and activist

• Axel Magnus, trade unionist and descendant of victims of the Holocaust

• Irina Vana, sociologist, top candidate of the GAZA list

• Maya Rinderer, author, activist with the Jewish Bolsheviks

• Topoké, artist and teacher with Congolese roots

• Sali Attia, teacher, candidate on the Gaza list

• Monika Vykoukal, Jewish Bolsheviks

• Marco Wanjura, restaurateur, co-founder of the BDS movement in Austria

• Martin Weinberger, Palestine Solidarity Austria

• Rames Najjar, architect

• Willi Langthaler, anti-imperialist

Speakers, Moderators and Organising-Team in Austria