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Over 1,000 anti-Zionist Jews and non-Jews gathered in Vienna during three days of presentations and workshops at the Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress. While this was the first event of its kind in Europe, it has already set in motion the planning for a second congress in 2026.

We, speakers and organisers at the Congress, hereby issue this public call, reflecting the collective positions reached through the three days of deliberations.

As anti-Zionist Jews and allies, we stand together with all Palestinians—in Palestine and in exile—against Zionism and its crimes, including genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and occupation. We affirm the right of people under occupation to resist by any means, as is recognized by several UN provisions. It is vital that Jews of conscience everywhere unite in opposing Zionism, in collaboration and solidarity with the global movement for Palestinian liberation. We are committed to expanding our movement beyond its European roots to include anti-Zionist voices from around the world, including the global South.

We condemn without qualification all war crimes committed by Israel since October 7, 2023, including ethnic cleansing, militarised apartheid, urbicide, scholasticide, medicide, mass starvation as an instrument of forced expulsion of more than two million Gazans, as well as an extant genocide of hundreds of thousands—one of the worst war crimes of our time. These acts have already been recognised as such by the ICC and ICJ, though the State of Israel has rejected out of hand the demands of both courts. It has also rejected numerous calls from both the UN General Assembly and Security Council in the same manner. As a result, roughly two million civilians are now incarcerated in a tiny area of the Gaza Strip, without access to food, water, medicine, shelter, or medical care. These new crimes are but the latest additions to an impossibly long history of similar offences dating back to 1948. Despite repeated violations of UNGA and UNSC resolutions, as well as extensive reports by UN Special Rapporteurs, no sanctions have ever been imposed on Israel.

None of these war crimes and crimes against humanity could have been carried out or sustained without the active and enthusiastic support of Western powers—through military aid, financial backing, and political and diplomatic cover—led by the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. By enabling and arming a criminal state committing genocide, these governments share legal and moral responsibility under the 1948 Genocide Convention. We call on all states and societies to fulfil their obligations under the Convention of the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and to take all necessary measures to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Sanctions must include the suspension of Israel from the United Nations General Assembly, as was done in 1974 with South Africa for its practice of apartheid. Clearly, Israel’s crimes are even more horrific. While the UN has deployed international forces for decades to separate combatants between Israel and Egypt, and Israel and Lebanon, it has never established a protection force to protect Palestinian lives from systemic oppression and terror by the Israeli state. We concur that the time has come to enact such a humanitarian measure. Without it, Israel will continue its mass murder of Palestinians.

We further demand that the European Union abide by its own laws and adhere to Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which obligates it to cease business ties with Israel and end its associate membership status in EU-funded programmes.

We call on all international societies, associations and organisations to expel Israel from membership until it complies with all UN and UNGA resolutions, ends its ongoing genocide in Gaza, and removes its military forces from all territories acquired by force in 1948 and 1967, as well as from all Syrian and Lebanese territories occupied since 1967. Israel must immediately and completely withdraw its forces from the Gaza Strip, lift the blockade that has been in place since 2006, and allow unrestricted access for all aid agencies to operate freely.

We call on all states, institutions, and civil society organisations to implement and uphold the demands of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee. This includes severing all financial, academic, military, cultural, and diplomatic ties with the genocidal state until it meets the conditions outlined above as well as fulfilling the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.

We further call on the United Nations to impose immediate and comprehensive sanctions in response to Israel’s unprovoked and illegal attacks on Tehran and other Iranian cities, and the mass killing of civilians. These sanctions must also extend to the Western governments that aid and abet—through military and political support—in Israel’s ongoing international crimes. The nuclear weapons of Israel—illegal as they are—must be decommissioned through a transparent process, supervised by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

We categorically reject the claim that Israel acts in the name of Jews, or that its criminal activity is supported by all Jews. We call on Jews worldwide to rise against the Zionist state—to deny it legitimacy and demand an immediate end to its criminal and depraved actions. This includes supporting the BDS campaign and severing cultural, political, and institutional ties with Israel until it complies with the conditions outlined above. Israel and Zionism act illegally and immorally while insisting that they do so in the name of Jews—thereby placing all Jews everywhere in harm’s way. This insistence that Jews inherently support Zionism and the abhorrent Zionist state—that is real antisemitism.

We embrace all Israeli opponents of Zionism and call upon Israeli Jews to reconsider their allegiance to a regime which has denied Palestinian rights for over eight decades. Honouring the Jewish historical legacy and the principles of Judaism itself, we urge Jews of conscience all around the world to stand shoulder to shoulder with Palestinians in rejecting the racist ideology of Zionism and its inherent supremacy. Instead, we will act in collaboration, wherever we are, with the global movement for decolonization and liberation of Palestine. Let us unite and do all that we can to help build a future of equality, justice, and dignity for all who live in Palestine—a land where shared life and mutual respect can once again flourish.

Decolonize and de-Zionize. Freedom for Palestine and its people.

Signed,

Declaration of the Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress
Vienna, 13–15 June 2025

Haim Bresheeth-Žabner
Descendant of survivors, filmmaker, Israel/UK

Ronnie Barkan
Israeli dissident, activist, speaker

Dalia Sarig
Descendant of Nazi-expelled family, Liste Gaza, Austria

Ghada Karmi
Palestinian physician, academic, author, UK

Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian author, journalist, Palestine Chronicle, US

Ilan Pappe
Israeli historian and author

Camille Lévy Sarfati
Curator and author

Roger Waters
Musician, Pink Floyd co-founder, UK

Yakov Rabkin
Historian, author, Canada

Katie Halper
Political commentator, USA

Tarkan Tek
Social scientist, activist, Austria

Astrid Wagner
Lawyer, author, Austria

Roshan Dadoo
Human rights activist, BDS coordinator, South Africa

Rahma Zein
Journalist, Egypt

Wilhelm Langthaler
Author, activist, Austria

Stephen Kapos
Holocaust survivor, architect, UK

Irina Vana
Social scientist, Liste Gaza leading candidate, Austria

Marco Wanjura
Human rights advocate, BDS Austria co-founder, Austria

Naama Farjoun
Physiotherapist, Boycott from Within, Israel

Tony Greenstein
Author, activist, J-BIG co-founder, UK

Wieland Hoban
Composer, Jewish Voice for Just Peace, Germany

Donny Gluckstein
Historian, author, UK

Iris Hefets
Psychotherapist, Jewish Voice for Just Peace, Germany

Martin Weinberger
Germanist, candidate for Liste Gaza, Austria

Supporters,

Ronnie Kasrils – Former South African minister, BDS South Africa
Suzanne Weiss – Holocaust survivor, author, IJV, Canada
Andrew Feinstein – Former MP, anti-corruption activist, South Africa/UK
Ronit Lentin – Associate Professor Sociology (ret), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Abby Martin – Empire Files
Mike Prysner – Empire Files
Melanie Schweizer – Lawyer
Zachary Foster – Historian, Palestine Nexus
Max Blumenthal – The Grayzone
Dr. Nadia Bieler – IPPNW, MERA25/DiEM25
Ulrich Eckle – Retd UN and EU/EEAS official, Shut Elbit Down–German section
Yonatan Shapira - Peace Activist
Yosefa Loshitzky - Professor emerita
Vivien Cohen
Shelly Steinberg – German-Israeli, member of Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue Group Munich
David Cannon – Chair, Jewish Network for Palestine, UK
Zohar Chamberlain Regev
Elizabeth Morley – Aberystwyth Friends of Palestine
Anne Mitchell
Michael Srba-Deywicz – France/Austria
Dr. Mohsen Farkhani
Peter Jackson – Technical Director (ret), Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Mary Pampalk – Women in Black Vienna, USA/Austria
Michael Chanan – Professor emeritus, University of Roehampton, UK
Dr. Alex Wodak – Consultant emeritus, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Richard Strachan – Independent Jewish Voices, Canada
Yuval Man - Israeli sociologist and writer
Amir Latif
Najib Rehman
Dr. Stavit Sinai - Academic, activist
Ronit Chitayat Kashi - activist
Glenn Bowman – Emeritus Professor, University of Kent
Penny Green – Professor of Law and Globalisation, Queen Mary University of London
Naomi Junnor – Jewish Network for Palestine
Katalin Balázs
Nir Hagigi – President of Independent Jewish Voices at Carleton University, Canada
Cory Greenless – Victoria Peace Coalition, Canada
Blake Alcott
Colleen Fuller - health policy researcher
Neil Naiman – Independent Jewish Voices
Les Levidov – Jewish Network for Palestine, UK
Keren Tova Rubinstein
Rosalind Petchesky – Professor emerita of Political Science, Jewish Voice for Peace
Sid Shniad – Founding member, Independent Jewish Voices Canada
Vera Sharav – Founder of Alliance for Human Research Protection, USA
François Lazar – Contributor for Informations Ouvrières
Martin Kemp – Psychoanalyst, UK-Palestine Mental Health Network
Christine van Duuren – UK-Palestine Mental Health Network
David Bell – British Psychoanalytic Society
Dimitri Lascaris – Lawyer and journalist, Reason2Resist
Sarah Cooke – Psychoanalyst, Society of Analytical Psychology
Thomas Austin - student activist
Victoria Evans – Photographer, PSC, ICAHD, Green Party
Ruth Lass
Andrew Samuels – Former Prof. Psychosocial Studies, Former Chair UK Council for Psychotherapy
Daniel York Loh - actor, writer, activist
Fionn Ó Loingsigh - filmmaker and actor
Maureen Boerma - psychotherapist
Diana Neslen - anti-zionist activist
Penni Swinden – Psychoanalytic, psychotherapist
Billie Loebner -
Denise Cullington
Christopher Gaynor
Gil Simhon
Rosemary Nash
Theodor Bughici
John Garrett – Associate Professor
Leon Maurice-Jones
Sylvia Marchant
Alison Brownlie Bojang
Nadav Finebooch - writer and activist, Decolonise Palestine
Chris Critchley – JVL & JNP assoc. member
George Thomson
John Rogers
Ron Naiweld - historian
Malcolm Bradstock – Senior Lecturer, OU & Nottingham Trent, B.A., M.A., PGCE
Nicola Padel – Psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist
Daniel Darby – Teacher
Martin Golding – Retired psychoanalytic psychotherapist; Emeritus Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge
Joan Hirschfeld
John Hall
E. G. Crichton – Artist, writer, UC Santa Cruz
Chantal Morgenbesser
Jackie Charbit-Middleton – Psychoanalytic psychotherapist, British Psychotherapy Foundation
Basheerah Soomar – South African coordinator, Global March to Gaza
Haifa Hammami
Ouarda Kamboua
Nihad Ben Salah – Materials Engineering consultant
Cata Schwarz
Anna Michali – Global March to Gaza and other Palestine movements
Michele Bayard
Shelley Rena Frydman – Organizer in Montréal
Fabian Schneider – Netzwerk Palästinasolidarität within Die Linke
Pilar Font Serrano – Activista, Aturem les Guerres
Austin Altman
Sofía Buchó
Christian König – MERA25 Bayern
Annie Sanchez Casuso
Haley Firkser
Melanie Berzon
Michelle Gabow
Adi Scholl
Paul Stewart
Nina Lyndon
Siti Noridah Ab Rahaman - BDS activist
Prof. Abdullah Ahsan - academic
Fila Magnus
Jin Yee Lim – Retiree (UNHCR Resettlement Counsellor HK), BDS Malaysia
Esti Pal
Anaïs Rodriguez Artells – Global March to Gaza
Olga Schäfer
Juliana Garcia Salinero – Retired Nurse, Caravana Abriendo Fronteras and Marcha Global a Gaza
Jane Schumann – Editor
Nili Phillis – PhD candidate
Mariam Kassem
Nino Re
Teresa Bailey – Child Psychotherapist, Association of Child Psychotherapists
Bernard Spiegal – Jewish Network for Palestine
Alexandra Chasin – Professor, Literary Studies, The New School
Hassan Noah – Anti-colonial Activist
Mary Pampalk – Women in Black Vienna
Lorena Patino Gutierrez
Muhammad Muizzuddin
Jarrettia Adams – Rutgers University
Adriana Tovar Cascales – Student, Amnesty International
Veronica Leeke
Golshad Ghiaci – Psychotherapist
Rym Fairouz Bellouti – Psychologist, Palestine Vivra
Paul Chislett – Global March To Gaza
Linda Jacobs
Aaron Jacobs – Jewish Voice for Peace
Cynthia Jacobs – Jewish Voice for Peace
Mireille Coral
Alan Duggan