Source: @zionistsspeakingforthemselves (Instagram)
Green backgrounds = anti-Zionist voices. Orange backgrounds = Zionist/Israeli officials.
1 — Noam Chomsky, Linguist, Author, Activist
"To call it apartheid is a gift to Israel, at least if by 'apartheid' you mean South African-style apartheid. What's happening in the Occupied Territories is much worse."
2 — Miko Peled, Israeli-American Author, Son of IDF Major General Matti Peled
"As Israelis, our identity is tied to the Zionist story. For me it was even more so. My grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence. My father was a general. And yet everything I was taught was a lie."
📎 Middle East Eye — Unapologetic Podcast, May 2024
3 — Refaat Alareer, Writer, Poet, Professor (killed by Israeli airstrike, Dec 2023)
"There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people regardless of color, religion, or race coexist."
📎 Gaza Writes Back — Goodreads
4 — Edward Said, Philosopher, Academic, Literary Critic, Activist
"You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit."
5 — Catherine Hodes, Antizionist Activist — Taken hostage at age 13 by the PFLP in 1970 while flying from Israel to the US. During 6 days of captivity, she learned that the Zionist tale of arriving in an uninhabited desert was a lie.
"As a Former Hostage of the Palestinian Resistance, I refuse to Support Genocide."
"To learn that this fantasy of a place had not been empty, and that there were people there that had nothing to do with the persecution we'd experienced as European Jews, and to learn that their villages were being razed and annihilated, and they had nowhere to go… A lot of these things, the first time I learned it was from the Palestinians that hijacked us."