By Independent News Roundup
In this searing and deeply personal editorial, a Jewish commentator delivers one of the most unflinching critiques of modern Zionism and its moral consequences.
Speaking from both historical knowledge and lived heritage, she dismantles the myth that the Israeli state represents all Jewish people — exposing how the ongoing violence against Palestinians not only betrays Jewish values but perpetuates anti-Semitism worldwide.
(B-roll: archival Holocaust imagery fading into present-day Gaza footage)
She begins by confronting a painful distortion: the phrase “Never Again” has been politically weaponized.
“Never Again” does not mean repeating injustice in a new form — it means ending it everywhere.
Her words challenge a common moral blind spot: that oppression is only unacceptable when it mirrors Nazi Germany, not when it’s justified in the name of vengeance or security.
(B-roll: Israeli flags, AIPAC conferences, Jewish protesters with ‘Not in Our Name’ signs)
She argues that Israel’s claim to speak for all Jews is itself an anti-Semitic trope — one that feeds the idea of “dual loyalty.”
In aligning global Jewish identity with state violence, Zionist institutions create the very prejudice they claim to fight.
(B-roll: newsroom monitors, press headlines, media bias graphics)
She recounts her own experience being fired for calling Israel an apartheid state, underscoring how corporate media suppresses dissent.
Where Russia “strikes” or “bombs,” Israel merely “responds” — language designed to erase accountability.
Even credible evidence of war crimes is buried, while unverified Israeli narratives dominate coverage.
(B-roll: candlelight vigils, Jewish resistance archives, 1948 Palestine footage)
Drawing a painful historical parallel, she urges Jewish people to remember the Holocaust not as a license for vengeance but as a warning.
“The world once looked away while Jews were dehumanized and exterminated,” she says,
“and now the same silence greets the dehumanization of Palestinians.”
She reveals how early Zionists themselves used colonial language — calling their institutions “Colonial Trusts” — and how Israel even mistreated Holocaust survivors in its early years.
(B-roll: old photos of Zionist leaders, Balfour Declaration text, Christian Zionist rallies)
Zionism, she explains, has always relied on anti-Semitism to justify itself.
It was never purely a Jewish movement; Christian Zionists and European imperialists supported it for their own ends — to move Jews out of Europe and secure control of the Middle East.
Israel’s racism, she adds, extends beyond Palestinians — to Mizrahi Jews, Yiddish speakers, and non-European Jews marginalized by the “New Hebrew” ideal.
(B-roll: civil rights marches, Jewish solidarity protests, anti-apartheid rallies)
There is another Jewish tradition — one rooted in justice, equality, and solidarity.
From the Spanish Civil War to the American civil rights movement, Jewish activists fought fascism and oppression everywhere.
“That,” she says, “is the Jewish tradition worth preserving — not one that weaponizes trauma to justify killing.”
(B-roll: shared communities in Jerusalem, interfaith gatherings, maps dissolving into peace symbols)
She concludes with hope — that Jews, Muslims, and Christians can coexist in a free Palestine, just as they did for centuries.
If Jews can live peacefully today in Germany — the birthplace of the Holocaust — they can live peacefully in Palestine.
The real threat to Jewish safety, she insists, is not a free Palestine — it is Zionism itself.
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