What is an Anti-Zionist Jew?

----John Paul Cupp, Public Relations Officer of the North American Committee Against Zionism and Imperialism (NACAZAI)

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I have been requested to define what an Anti-Zionist Jew is exactly, per my comments attacking most "anti-Zionist" and "pro-Palestinian" Jews as being Zionists, and hence in a nutshell, here is the "litmus test" or yardstick for defining if a Jewish organization or personage is objectively Zionist or anti-Zionist, regardless of what "pro-Palestinian" lip service they speak.

This isn't meant to be fully comprehensive, but rather an "in a nutshell" definition. It should be noted that the bulk of Arabs and Muslims in the periphery still abide by the original Palestinian Charter, or at least the principles defined by it.

A. Armed Struggle (including the human bomb tactic) are the necassary primary strategy for the liberation of Palestine

B. Palestine, along its historical boundries is, was, and always will be Arab.

C. Imperialism and Zionism are two side of the same coin.

D. The Zionist entity does not have a right to exist.

Now then, here would be, in my opinion, what constitutes an Anti-Zionist Jew.



1. They recognize that Jews are a religious group (or lack of in the case of Jews claiming also to be Atheists or Agnostics) and not a Nationality or a race.

In fact Jews belong to many nations and multiple races. That Judaism is hereditary (frankly in a way that mirrors eugenics!) in nature, where as Christianity and Islam, are universalist in nature (anyone may convert to Christianity and Islam), does not make Jewishness national in character. The Jews do not collectively hold any, let alone all five of the key characteristics of a nation. They do not have a common language, a common history, a common historical economic life, a common historical geographical boundary for such illusionary nation, nor a common culture.

One would argue that the Jew shares a common culture via religious tradition, and that such also would constitute a common history, but is the culture of the Polish Jew the same as the Arab Jew, the Armenian Jew, or as the Argentinean Jew. Obviously not! Religion has always been a driving force for better or worse, in the creation of culture and history amongst mankind, but that said does the American Baptist have more in common with a Thai Baptist or an American Catholic?

Lastly, can the Jews be considered a race, when in fact there are Jews of many different races? Obviously not!

2. They recognize that as Jews do not constitute a national identity, and as the right to self-determination is reserved only for the rights of nations to self-determination, that Jews, as well do not have a right to self-determination.

Jews do not have a right to self-determination, a right granted to nationalities alone, anymore than Hare Krishnas or Catholics.

The argument for religious "self-determination" is actually sectarianism dividing the nation’s development and the class struggle of such said peoples.



3. They recognize that "Israel" does not have a right to exist, anywhere.



The Jewish/Zionist presence in Palestine is a hostile one, and the Jewish "Israeli" people, out of their supremacist ambitions have allowed themselves to be a human base for imperialism, dividing the Arabs in half. Marx was correct when he asserted the reactionary cause "Israel", because "Israel" does not have right to exist, in Palestine, in Argentina, or on Neptune.



"Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man -- and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world -- both the world of men and nature -- of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man's work and man's existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it. "--- K.Marx "On the Jewish Question".



4. They understand that Palestine, with its Islamic dimension, is Arab in identity, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.



Just as Africa belongs to the Africans, so to does Palestine, and intricate regional unit of the Arab nation, dividing its Balkanized Western African wing from its Eastern Asiatic wing, belong to the Arab people, regardless if such Arabs are Muslim, Christian, Jewish, etc by tradition. That the Jewish invaders and crusaders (settler colonialists and the traditionally Islamic Arab Palestinians have a common identity and destiny is a LIE. Arab Palestinians have nothing more in common with European Jews than with American Mormons.