Of Exclusivity, Loyalty and Liberation of Palestine

Jewish-Only Organizations . . . A Closer Look...

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(LONDON) - Due to recent events of alienation and/or expulsion of members of Palestine Solidarity Movement, including Palestinians, it became more and more evident that there are elements in the Solidarity Movement who continue to stir up friction and splits amongst activists, that leads to alienation of many genuine activists and even exiled Palestinians.

Such elements also continue to cause distraction by filtering information to prevent members from understanding the role of the larger Jewish community world wide in influencing their respective governments to support "Israel", and to deflect from scrutinizing the role of UK Jewish community and its DEEP TIES with "Israel".

Moreover, such obfuscations would undoubtedly prevent the public from understanding the impact of racist ideology on the standpoints, attitudes and behaviour of the Jewish-settlers in Occupied Palestine and on Jewish communities who support them world wide, and the implication of such ideology on Palestinians;


This state of affairs should raise alarm to anyone interested in Justice and Peace, that means anyone who works to put an end to decades of Palestinian suffering, and its slow genocide, and to anyone who understands that such high objectives require promoting the Liberation of Palestine.

It is also apparent that many of these destabilizing elements are simultaneously members of OTHER organizations, which membership approval operates through exclusivity, and restricted only to people of Jewish background.

Moreover, it is manifest that many of these Jewish-only organizations declare publicly that their prime motive for their activism is out of concern for the welfare of “Israel” and the “Israeli society”. Worse, some of these organizations do not even conceal that their criticism of “Israel” is done out of “love” and loyalty to this criminal entity. Simply put, they criticise and condemn "Israel" primarily to protect and help it thrive and survive.


This kind of blind allegiance and deep loyalty to “Israel” is of course expected from and omnipresent amongst hyper-Zionists and their circles, but it is quite disturbing to find the same loyalty amongst "supporters of Palestine" of Jewish background. It is also interesting to notice that even hyper-Zionists, through their think tanks, have recently arrived to the same conclusion that their counterparts Jewish anti-Zionists have known for decades; namely open criticism of “Israel” IS the best way to defend it. As we can see for example, in Mick Davis’s article: “Open debate is our best way of defending Israel in the diaspora,” The Jewish Chronicle, 17 June 2010. The article also appears on the website of the Jewish Chronicle under the title “Defending Israel in the diaspora”.

Although, I acknowledge that there are many Jewish individuals who might -on the personal level, feel real and sincere sympathy for the suffering of Palestinians and the injustice against them, it is however, quite obvious that a major motive for the activism of many members of such organizations is the concern for the possible rise of anti-Semitism because of the impossible-to-hide criminality of the "Jewish state", hence, one of their principal aim becomes the prevention of anti-Semitism.

Through my research and extensive work, it became evident that the prime allegiance and the principal concern of many Jewish anti-Zionist organizations is not to Palestine or the Palestinians; their loyalty is to the global Jewish communities, to the welfare and future of “Jewish-Israelis” and to the security and perpetuation of the artificially manufactured colonial society in Palestine.


Factual and thorough scrutiny of these organizations invariably indicates that their primary concern and main focus are the following:

How to best consolidate and reinforce a good, secure and thriving future for the INVENTED *** "nation" of "Israel", on the Historical Land STOLEN from its ancestral inhabitants, the Palestinians;

How to best exculpate the Jewish communities worldwide from their responsibility of decades of financial, protective, political, moral and even military support of their “beacon of light”, “Israel”;

How to best further the interests of such invented “nation”, after the finalization of their imposed facts on the grounds, and getting rid of the banner of Zionism;

How to best ensure and secure the permanent presence of an invading settler society after grabbing most of the LAND of Palestine by wars of terror and conquest;

How to best pacify and allure Palestinians into accepting foreign violent invaders as rightful co-owners of Palestine and future "partners";

How to best promote "Israeli" settler society as “liberal peace-loving”, whose main concern would be to live in peace and security, but who just happened to be "unfortunately" plagued with corrupt leadership;

How to best conceal that their garment of humanism and thin veneer of ethics is directed principally at “saving Israelis from themselves” and thereby their own reputation, rather than unconditional and altruistic protection of the dispossessed, terrorised, besieged and occupied Palestinians, and their moral cause of Liberation.

How to best use their own narrative of the Holocaust as a "unique unprecedented" event like-no-other in human memory, the "eternal suffering" of the Jewish people that has "no equal in the history of mankind", and anti-Semitism as global, "intrinsic"  and "incurable" hatred for the Jews, as unquestionable dogmas to justify the need for a "homeland" for the Jewish people, hence to secure the permanent colonization and take over of Palestine.

How best to divert the limited energy of activism into supporting "Israeli peace camp", "Israeli" organizations, and "Israeli" individuals and treat as angels and heroes those of them who exhibit a minuscule doze of normal human behaviour;

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• Disclaimer 1: The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of the author, they are the sole responsibility of the article itself.

• Disclaimer 2: Healthy Criticism of some Jewish Organizations is NOT anti-Semitic.

• Disclaimer 3: Political Disagreement is Kosher... Thinking independently is not a Sin... and Striving for Liberation is Halal.

“To smile when confronted with the most severe oppression, is an act of Resistance rooted in unparalleled beauty.”

~ Jonathan Azaziah

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Nahida Izzat is a Jerusalem-born Palestinian refugee who has lived in exile for over forty two years, after being forced to leave her homeland at the tender age of seven in 1967, during the six-day war. She has a degree in mathematics, but art is one of her favorite pastimes. She loves hand-made things and so makes dolls, cards, and most of her own clothes. She also writes poetry, participates in written dialogues and believes in building bridges, not walls.

She started writing when her friends insisted she should write about her memories, experiences and feelings as a Palestinian.When she did it all came out sounding—she was told—like poetry! So she self-published two books: I Believe in Miracles and Palestine, The True Story.

Her dream is to return back home to a free and liberated Palestine.

If you like poetry and are intrigued by the notion of helping the Palestinian people and learning more, you can purchase Nahida's books, I Believe in Miracles and Palestine, The True Story by visiting:

I Believe in Miracles: a Collection of Palestinian Poems

ISBN 13: 9780954839109 | ISBN 10: 0954839102

£12.99 paperback Nahida Izzat (2004)

You can write to Nahida : nahidaexiledpalestinian@gmail.com