De-Recognition and Justice: Western Duplicity and the So-Called Palestinian State

We do not wish to criticise without offering a positive, progressive alternative—a just solution reversing the atrocities and crimes of Zionism and offering a positive future for all in Palestine. As Jewish and Israeli anti-Zionists, we call for the establishment of a global anti-Zionist movement, based on the model of the anti-Apartheid movement, which supported the ANC demands and brought about the end of apartheid, and for the setting up of a single, democratic state in South Africa with equal rights for all. Only the end of Zionism will guarantee equality, just peace, and prosperity for all in Palestine. As Jews and Israelis whose families were destroyed by the terrifying genocide during WWII, we call on the global community to fully honour the provisions of the 1948 Geneva Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (the Genocide Convention, 1948). Our detailed position is outlined below.

• The symbolic, meaningless “recognition” now sought: The recognition of the State of Palestine offers nothing to the millions of Palestinians who were made homeless refugees by the injustice of the UNGA Partition of Palestine in 1947. The criminal activities of the Zionist militias, and then the IGF, which replaced them, have led to continuous and unrelenting ethnic cleansing, denial of any rights to millions of Palestinians, and to a terrifying and brutal genocidal destruction, slaughter, and mass starvation across Palestine, and especially in the Gaza Strip. The UNGA was responsible for this injustice enacted by the Zionist settler-colonial state and hence is now responsible for the historical correction of this monumental injustice. The proposed Two-State “solution” is nothing of the kind—it is a delusion supported by the West, to protect Zionism in Palestine by allowing a Zionist state to maintain control—political, monetary and military—over a rump state which Israel has decreed will never be allowed.

• Repeating the mistakes of UNGA in 1947: We totally oppose any long-term solution that does not involve the liberation of the Palestinian people from Zionist control, an end to the Zionist settler-colonial project, a thorough decolonisation of Palestine, and the establishment of a single, secular, democratic state for all its citizens from the river to the sea. This is the only democratic, antiracist, anti-Zionist, just, and equal solution to the problem created by the UN in 1947, which granted most of Palestine to the colonialist aggressors and set in motion the Nakba—with two-thirds of the indigenous Palestinians forcibly expelled by the Zionist occupation forces. The new state will have a progressive constitution guaranteeing equal rights for all, inviting the Palestinian refugees and their descendants to return to their land. Jewish Israelis who accept justice and equality will have equal rights with the Palestinians in the new state, but Zionism, as well as any other form of racism, will be outlawed.

• Zionism cannot be allowed to regroup: We see Zionism and the State of Israel as a brutal, supremacist, racist endeavour that must end, as did other colonial regimes of injustice, inequality, and apartheid. Any solution not guaranteeing an end to Zionism will underwrite a continuation of the crimes against humanity by the Zionist regime, by lending legitimacy to the State of Israel. Such recognition is dangerous, immoral, and illegal.

• Recognition of a puppet Palestinian regime: Likewise, recognition of the State of Palestine based on the Palestinian Authority, calling it a Palestinian State, accepts past and current Zionist crimes as irreversible, as well as serving to lend legitimacy to the so-called Palestinian Authority. Along with the recognition of “The State of Palestine,” it implicitly recognises the State of Israel as legitimate—again serving to protect Zionist colonialism, ethnic cleansing, occupation, and genocide (See video with Tarik Cyril Amar).

• Much-needed reforms of the UN structure: For all of the above reasons, and given the UN's longstanding passivity and lack of sanction in the face of Israeli crimes—against the UN’s own mandate and other legal norms—it is crucial that the UN change its stance and move to de-recognition of Israel. This is not possible without far-reaching changes to the UN constitution and rules; these were generated and frozen in a different reality, in 1946, in a world now extinct. The current UNGA is powerless to carry out its duties, as are its sister and constituent institutions, especially the Security Council, the International Criminal Court, and the International Court of Justice. This has meant that for two whole terrible years, the UN was unable to act against Israeli war crimes or to offer the Palestinians any support or safety, which it is obligated to provide. For this impotence to continue will bring about the total collapse of what little remains of international law. This cannot be allowed to take place and is likely to end with a nuclear world war. (See video with Ralph Wilde and his superb legal analysis at the ICJ)

• Ending and punishing genocide: We believe that most UNGA member states accept the Genocide Convention and wish to adhere to its provisions and legal requirements as the only effective method of stopping this genocide and preventing any further crimes of this nature in the future.

  The crimes of genocide, including incitement to genocide, have been demonstrated in the clearest way in Palestine, noted by the ICC and ICJ, and accurately described in the recent report of the Special UN Rapporteur for the Palestinian Occupied Territories, Francesca Albanese. We call for the full adoption of her report and the sanctions thereby outlined. Without immediate action to end the genocide, starvation, ethnic cleansing, and other numerous illegal brutalities, the UN fails its Charter in a spectacular and devastating manner.

• Punishment of war crimes: The crimes of the Israeli apartheid regime are the most serious crimes in our lifetime. It is unthinkable, unjust, and illegal that such crimes go unpunished. We call for the effective authorisation and support of the UN to be granted to the ICJ and ICC, so that the full provisions of the Genocide Convention can be applied to institutions, organisations, and individuals who have incited, carried out, financed, armed, and supported the crimes of the Israeli regime. Without such legal action, comparable but more extensive than the historical legal process of the Nuremberg Trials, the Crime of Genocide will become impossible to stop in the future—no legal system can operate without sanctions against those who commit crimes against humanity. The provisions allow for a restoration of the rights, livelihood, property, and security of the community harmed by the genocide and its agents.

  This will require that Israel and its Western supporting regimes be held legally and financially responsible for rebuilding all damaged infrastructure in Gaza and the rest of Palestine, for compensating the families and communities of survivors of the genocide victims, and for supplying the means for the millions of Palestinians now bereft of housing, medical, educational, water, electricity, transport, community, and religious facilities of any kind. Failure by the UN to initiate, control, regulate, police, and guarantee the safety and security of all in Palestine will add to the criminal responsibilities of the UN since the 1948 Nakba. Needless to say, this may have a crucial deterrent effect on future attempts at genocide and will help to end this scourge on humanity’s future.

  While the process of rebuilding is carried out—by definition, one lasting decades—the citizens of Gaza cannot exist among the rubble. Most of the citizens of Gaza have come from other areas in Palestine, expelled by the Zionist armed forces in 1948. All should have full rights to return to other areas of Palestine-Israel and benefit from fully financed temporary or permanent accommodation as part of a peace agreement affirming their rights as Palestinians. No expulsion of any Palestinians by Israel or any other entity should be permitted, and any such attempts by any state should be severely punishable by law as genocide and ethnic cleansing—both grave war crimes.

• Down with Zionism! We therefore reiterate our Congress Declaration and stress the necessity to take decisive action immediately and with a clear, unyielding approach. We call upon the global Palestine solidarity movement to note our Declaration in support of Palestinian liberation and the decolonisation of Palestine.

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) favours a puppet state while ignoring the need to de-recognise Israel

29.09.2025

As some of the organisers of the first Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Vienna in June 2025, and the forthcoming second Congress in June 2026 in Dublin, we write to state our position on the current UNGA discussions on the recognition of the State of Palestine, which we feel is clearly insufficient in the face of the ongoing Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Signed for the Congress Committee

Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

Ronnie Barkan

Dalia Sarig