From Vienna to Dublin: gathering for the second Anti-Zionist Congress
Flier for Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Dublin, June 2026
Haim Bresheeth-Žabner writes in The Palestine Chronicle on 11 June 2026:
Less than a year ago, the first Anti-Zionist Congress met in Vienna for three days of debates and discussion, in the very city that in February 1896 Theodor Herzl published Der Judenstaat, the small volume which started the development of political Zionism which led to the Zionist movement, and the settler-colonial state of Israel, now involved in fully-fledged genocide, ethnic cleansing of Palestine, a war against Iran and the destruction and genocide in South Lebanon. 130 years of Zionism have created the worst political monsters since the Third Reich. This was, of course, done in the name of liberating Jews.
The Jewish Apartheid state was set up in the same year, 1948, that the White Apartheid state was created in South Africa. At least that monster is already gone, though the way this was done did not lead to the liberation so many have worked for, and Blacks in South Africa are still living with many of the inequalities created by the White Apartheid regime.
Yet in Palestine, the Settler-colonial state of Israel seems stronger than ever, controlling the agenda, decision-making and the political direction of much of the global West, while it is involved in the most terrifying genocide of our lifetime. Despite the fact that this has gone on for almost three years, there seems to be no end in sight for the oppression, suffering, and destruction of Palestinian life in their own land, with every organization, institution, and even states that have partaken in the struggle against Israeli war crimes being crushed and punished by the combined might of the global West.
Surely, we are all involved? Surely, we are all suffering the loss of our rights for free speech, the right to protest, or the duty to uphold the law of the land and international law, under governments that are united in supporting crimes against humanity? That this is done in the name of helping Jews against antisemitism is one of the most persistent lies of our time. And Jews all over the world are uniting against it.