À travers des images éloquentes et les témoignages de quatre Juifs israéliens, Elhanan Beck [rabbin et membre du mouvement antisioniste Neturei Karta (1)], Ilan Pappé (historien), Daniel Levy (ancien négociateur israélien) et Avigail Abarbanel (psychothérapeute et ex activiste pour les Droits Humains), le film révèle comment l’idéologie sioniste a réussi à façonner et pénétrer la société israélienne grâce à un endoctrinement systématique. qui règne dans toutes ses instances de socialisation, et à l'instrumentalisation du chantage émotionnel et de la peur pour maintenir le contrôle des cerveaux et des corps.
Ces derniers temps nous assistons a des témoignages juifs ou israéliens de ce type à sensibilité variable —mis à part beaucoup d'autres cas, parfois déjà cités sur ce blog, genre Stavit Sinai et Ronnie Barkan, Max Blumenthal et Judith Butler, Avi Shlaïm, Miko Peled, Gilad Atzmon ou le défunt Hajo Meyer. Je pense à Jacob Boas (2), Anna Lippman (3), Avi Steinberg (4) —qui, tout comme Avigail Abarbanel, a renoncé à sa citoyenneté israélienne—, à Peter Beinart, rédacteur en chef de Jewish Currents, qui vient de publier Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, mais qui tient toujours à honorer l'étoile de David, etc.
Voici, après les notes, le documentaire précité :
(1) NETUREI KARTA (hébreu : נטורי קרתא) signifie Gardiens de la Ville dans le dialecte araméen des Juifs de Babylone et vient d'une Guemara du Talmud. C'est un groupe religieux de Juifs Haredi dont la plupart descendent de Juifs hongrois qui se sont installés dans la vieille ville de Jérusalem au début du XIXe siècle, alors en Palestine mandataire, et qui se sont séparés en 1938 d'Agudat Yisrael. Ils s’opposent au sionisme et appellent à un démantèlement pacifique de l’État d’Israël.
(2) Jacob Boas, My Two Genocides (Mes deux génocides. Dans ma vie, j’ai été impliqué dans deux génocides. Le premier, c’est lorsque j’ai survécu à l’Holocauste pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le deuxième est le génocide de Gaza, qui est perpétré en mon nom et qui exploite mon histoire pour justifier le massacre.), Mondoweiss, 19.01.2025.
(3) Anna Lippman, I stopped wearing the Star of David because it has become a symbol of supremacy and fascism, Mondoweiss, 9.11.2024. J'ai arrêté de porter l'étoile de David parce qu'elle est devenue un symbole de suprématie et de fascisme. En octobre 2023, j’ai porté fièrement mon collier étoile de David lors d’un rassemblement d’urgence pour Gaza, mais un an plus tard, je ne pouvais plus le porter. Israël a rendu impossible la séparation de ce symbole avec la dévastation insondable effectuée sous sa bannière.
(4) Avi Steinberg, Israeli Citizenship Has Always Been a Tool of Genocide — So I’m Renouncing Mine. My decision is an acknowledgement that this status never held any legitimacy to begin with (La citoyenneté israélienne a toujours été un outil de génocide – je renonce donc à la mienne. Ma décision est une reconnaissance du fait que ce statut n’a jamais eu de légitimité au départ), Truthout, 26.12.2024.
TRT World, Breaking from Zionism: Jewish Voices for Justice, 24.01.2025
TRANSCRIPTION :
Elhanan Beck (Rabbi): They occupy our name, our identity…
Ilan Pappé (Historian): I was still very much loyal to the Zionist ideology…
Daniel Levy (Former Israeli Negotiator): Those symbols mean something to me. That star of David, that is on the menorah, that is in our religion of thousands of years…
Elhanan Beck (Rabbi): You say God promised land, you say the Torah? You don't believe in the Torah.
Ilan Pappé: I already warned that Israel would become far more extreme, far more closer to an apartheid State…
Avigail Abarbanel (Former Israeli Human Rights Activist): I came home and I told my husband: we have to get out of here. Israel is complete mania.
Ilan Pappé: We call it in political science “failed state”. This is really a collapse of a State.
Elhanan Beck (Rabbi): I’m a rabbi in Stamford Hill. I was born in Jerusalem and we gone out from there in 1970. My grandmother has died in Auschwitz, my father was a big leader of the Neturei Karta , in Jerusalem. He himself was Holocaust survivor. I live in the Haredi Orthodox Jewish community. People looks like me, have a bear. This type of Haredi Jews, Hasidic Jews, all the Ultra Orthodox Jews, many names people give for these Jews. They have businesses, their prayers, the education for children, and that's all.
Ilan Pappé: I was born in 1954, that is a few years after the establishment of the state of Israel. My parents came from Germany, in the early 1930s, and lost most members of their family in the Holocaust. I grew up in the city that I was born in, Haifa, and probably had a conventional Israeli Jewish upbringing and experience, more or less until I finished my military service in 1974.
I participated in the 1973 war, on the Golan Heights. I was still very much loyal to the Zionist ideology and didn't question any fundamental way.
Avigail Abarbanel: My family were very Zionist, but when you grow up in that, you don't actually know that they're Zionists. They were very loyal to the state of Israel, it took me a very, very long time to begin to wake up to what Zionism is and shape my opinion about it.
Daniel Levy (Former Israeli Negotiator): I come from a quite religious home, most of my grandparents or my mother's side family perished in the Holocaust. When I was young, I go to a Jewish day school, to go to Zionist youth movements, and for Israel to be a central piece of one's identity, to go to Israel camps. There is an Israel that exists in the mind of Jews who live on the outside that is increasingly distant from the Israel that exists in reality. When you go and live there, you're confronted with that reality, and so, the act of living there is the act of saying okay, what is going on?
Elhanan Beck (Rabbi): My father used to leave there (Jerusalem); he was demonstrating very much against the State. He didn't serve in the army, and he was beaten very much buy the Zionist police, he went in prison. Maybe he was more in prison than at home, I cannot say much more, but what they're doing for the Jewish people is terrible.
Ilan Pappé: The truisms of Zionism before I reached the university and started my postgraduate studies in the late 1970s. Conventional education that I was receiving had a very clear narrative, historical narrative, of what happened in Palestine. We were taught that as Palestine was an empty land, a land without people, waiting for the people, the Jewish people, who were without land, we were persuaded that the Jews were actually returning to an ancient Homeland that were taken from them during the Roman times. And a second feature which is very important is that the Arab world around us is hostile because of its religion, because of its political culture and because it is anti-Semitic, and therefore, we are doomed to defend ourselves and fight for the survival of the State, because they hate us, they are against us because we are Jews. When you graduate from the Israeli education system, you really believe that you live in a democracy that is loyal to universal values of morality and humanity.
Avigail Abarbanel (Former Israeli Human Rights Activist): You're effectively traumatised by the state, by the education system, and when you're brought up there, from very young age you're exposed to images of the Holocaust. If you were living there, this would be you. So, just remember the state of Israel is what keeps you safe.
In Israel you have to live in fear: the entire population is kept in a state of fear all the time.
Ilan Pappé: Zionism is a state ideology which means it encompasses every walk of life. When you go to the kindergarten, you already are exposed to the Zionist narrative and ideology as a toddler, and then, you will be exposed to it in elementary school, high school, in the army. According to that nationality law between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean, that is all over historical Palestine, only one nation can exist: the Jewish Nation, no other nation. And not only that; this law says that, in order to assert the Jewish identity of the land of Israel, Eretz Israel, you need to continue to colonize to settle and to reject anyone who is not a Jew, who does not accept that all of historical Palestine is a Jewish state. That is the essence of Zionism.
Avigail Abarbanel (Former Israeli Human Rights Activist): When I was growing up, and now, the Palestinians are compared to Nazis, they're not seen as human beings, at all, the vast majority of Israeli Jews are supporting the Zionist project. Israel is complete mania.
An Ultra-Orthodox cries: Zionist were only invented 200 years ago!
Avigail Abarbanel (Former Israeli Human Rights Activist): It's not a simple thing to do. When you find out that your group is doing really bad things, and you realize that it's really actually very, very unwell, immoral, it's killing people… it's basically genocidal. I… at some point realized that I had to choose between loyalty to my group and my own values. I came home and I told my husband ‘We have to get out of here’. I didn't want to live in fear. I renounced my Israeli citizenship in 2001. In fact, I feel liberated having left, not just leaving the state itself and renouncing citizenship of Israel but mentally leaving the mindset of Zionism has been incredibly liberating. It was considered a big, big betrayal to want to leave. They were horrified when they heard that I was leaving and they said ‘you can't leave, you will never have any friends!’, you know, ‘they'll come after you’. These are the kind of messages that I got and I'm not kidding.
Daniel Levy (Former Israeli Negotiator): Israel was never ready to accept the Palestinians as they are. Israel never acknowledged the crimes of the Nakba, of the expulsion of Palestinians, and there is a willingness within Zionism to meaningfully challenge that extremism. There is an attempt especially on the outside to portray Zionism as something that should be beyond questioning, even something so obvious and benevolent: ‘the Jewish people have a right to self-determination, how could one in any way challenge this?’
The question of why are you conducting war crimes against the Palestinian civilian population? within a broader context of what is, legally, a regime of apartheid, as designated by not only human rights groups inside Israel, not only international human rights groups, but also, now, the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Would you rather have that conversation? Or… ‘Why are you singling me out?’ ‘Because I’m a Jewish State, you must be antisemitic, you're just like the Nazis’.
Ilan Pappé: I already warned in 1999 that Israel would become far more extreme, far more closer to an apartheid State, that it would be far more ruthless towards the Palestinian in its methods and would constitute a danger to the stability of the region as a whole, but I did not predict it to be so cruel. If you live in Israel and you declare yourself, openly, to be an anti-Zionist, if you are a professor in history in a university and you teach your students that Zionism is colonialism or what Israel did in 1948 is ethnic cleansing, you clash directly with the narrative, the historical narrative, and the ideology that your government wants you to teach, they see you as a traitor, don't accept your criticism and you get death threats, and you are being ostracised, boycotted and so on. Like so many of my anti-Zionist Jewish friends, I was labelled too as a self-hating Jew.
Elhanan Beck (Rabbi): They occupy our name, our identit,y in the speaking in our name, in all this murder act. What they're doing, they're doing in my name, in our name. Everybody knows the history, knows that Jews have a golden life in all Muslim countries for centuries. How can people be so blind? Just open the eyes.
I go many times to demonstrations and the police stops me before I come: ‘Where are you going?’ ‘I go in there to demonstration’. ‘What? They're going to kill you’. ‘I don't worry, just look, I show you a miracle. I go in, between hundreds of thousands of Muslims, nobody will touch me, you don't have to protect me. Just look, I come every time among Muslims, I never see any antisemitism at all. Just look! From the Jewish point of view, where is the most danger place for Jews to live today? You go the whole world, you come to one point, State of Israel.
Daniel Levy (Former Israeli Negotiator): The question of what will happen in this land and whether, not a theory of Zionism that I was brought up with, but the practice of the State of Israel and the state ideology is called Zionism. And the reality there is a reality that is not enabling of an existence which is going to work, of course not for Palestinians, but also for Jews. And I feel now that this is coming apart. And, therefore, you see that some of the most vociferous, determined, angry voices in this period have been the voices of Jewish people saying: ‘not in my name’.
Those symbols mean something to me. That star of David… that is on the menorah, that is in our religion of thousands of years.
Elhanan Beck (Rabbi): The founder of Zionist, his name was Theodor Herzl, from Vienna, Austria, he don't (sic) believe in God, he don't believe in nothing. The Judaism is completely a religious movement, have nothing to do with any nationality, with any materialistic things. The Zionist often weaving the flag of the promised land, the promised land. You say: ‘God promised land’, you say: ‘the Torah’!! You don't believe in the Torah, you don't believe in God, you don't eat kosher, how can he be such a strong hypocrite to take out of the Torah something what is for his benefit, and ignoring all the other parts? It's written at Ten Commandments: ‘don't kill, don't steal!’ The Zionist is ignoring everything about the Jewish belief. In the Jewish belief, the state of Israel will come to an end, 100%.
Ilan Pappé: Israel survive, as it is, in the long run, in a situation where it has to fight all the time, in a situation where its own Society is going through a kind of a civil war, between the secular Jews and the religious Jews, even with the huge American financial aid, when Israel’s international image has been eroded like never before and when the Jews of the world are not going to support it anymore. We call it, in political science, “failed States” or “disintegrating States”, and this is really a collapse of a state.
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Mise à jour du 28.01.2025 :
Les voix juives pour la Justice en Palestine, dénonçant à cor et à cri le génocide sioniste en Palestine, continuent de résonner partout, y compris pendant la Journée de Commémoration de l'Holocauste [dans ce cas, à Londres]. Elles n'en démordent pas et répètent toujours que l'anti-Sionisme n'a rien à voir avec la judéophobie, loin de là, et qu'il faut s'opposer aux Sionismes israélien et international, car il faut s'opposer à toutes les forces génocidaires.
Honneur à Stephen Kapos (survivant de l'Holocauste), Sonja Linden et Mark Etkind (fille et fils de survivants de l'Holocauste)... et à tous leurs pairs.
Il faut préciser que Stephen Kapos, survivant de l'Holocauste, avait quitté le parti travailliste britannique en janvier 2023. Ce parti capitaliste, atlantiste et sioniste, dirigé par le sioniste et collaborateur dans le génocide palestinien en cours Keir Starmer, lui avait annoncé qu'il serait expulsé s'il prenait la parole lors d'un événement organisé par un groupe de gauche à l'occasion de la Journée de commémoration de l'Holocauste.
TRANSCRIPTION :
Stephen Kapos: As a Hungarian Jew aged 7, in 1944, I myself had to wear the yellow star and 15 members of my extended family died in Auschwitz. On Holocaust Memorial Day, I want to keep their memories alive.
At the same time, it is also a commemoration and expression of solidarity with the one ongoing genocide, which is really a repeat of the Holocaust, in Gaza, and we want to make clear that those who had experienced the Holocaust will not want to repeat it against anybody.
Sonja Linden (Daughter of Holocaust Survivor): I'm the daughter of Lisa Lottojudas, who was born in Germany and had to flee at the age of 18, in 1939. It's incredibly important to me to make connection on Holocaust Day, which is the day when we remember the Jewish Holocaust, that we also remember, as Jews, in particular, that there is an ongoing Holocaust at this very moment, as we speak, in Palestine, something which absolutely fills us with horror, the Jewish people who came here today, and so many Jews whose voices we feel are not being heard. Our opposition to what is being done, supposedly in our name, is not really being recognized by the Press, by the media, and so we have felt it very important to come here today particularly to The Cenotaph. ‘Cenotaph’ means ‘empty tomb’, and I think it's particularly appropriate that we remember those in the Holocaust who did not get a burial, who remained unburied, just as we remembered those Palestinians under the rubble, thousands of them, who remain unburied today.
Mark Etkind (Son of Holocaust Survivor): My father was Jewish in Poland, when the war started, and he was pushed into the Łódź ghetto, within months of the Nazis invading along with his family, and tens of thousands of other Jews in Łódź, where they were deprived of health care, of clean water, of enough food and, within a year or so, my grandmother had died of disease, my uncle had died of disease, and tens of thousands of others had died of disease. This is how the Holocaust in Poland started. It didn't start with a simple extermination of Jews through gas chambers and such, it had started as a process, and what we're seeing in Gaza at the moment is the beginning of that kind of process: the extermination of the people of Palestine. As far as we can tell, they've murdered something like a 100,000 people, how many more will die? We don't know, but until our British government stops arming Israel and supporting this genocide, who knows? It really is beyond anything, and I think it's so important on a Holocaust Memorial day that we commemorate the suffering of all genocides and don't create a hierarchy where only some genocides matter and others don't, which, unfortunately, is what our governments are doing.
Stephen Kapos: This is an alternative commemoration of the memory of the Holocaust. The official one, they decided to exclude any reference to the one Holocaust… of the one genocide that is going on in front of our eyes, the Gaza genocide.
Mark Etkind: There was a laying of a wreath to the victims of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews and also, a re for those in Gaza who've died over the past year. In other words, we were commemorating two genocides, also there was a 3-minutes silence for all the victims of genocide, which I think is the only appropriate way we should commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.
Sonja Linden: We feel particularly strongly that the Holocaust is being exploited, and anti-Semitism is being exploited hugely! as a way of, I would say, closing down many people who would like to support the Palestinians in their struggle and in their suffering for fear of being labelled anti-semitic, and I would make a very strong distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
Mark Etkind: Well, there's no greater insult to the victims —the Jewish victims and other victims— of Nazi crimes than to use that suffering to justify further crimes.
Well, you're showing me destruction in Gaza, I think, from on high, and you're showing me, I presume, tanks have made marks in the earth in Gaza showing the Star of David…
Stephen Kapos: This is completely shocking! and it shows that not only are they perpetrating a genocide, they’re actually celebrating it, and it is… sadistic.
Sonja Linden: I mean, Gaza now looks like Nagasaki after the war, there's nothing, there's no hospitals, there's no schools, there's no homes, it is just rubble and to actually inscribe that in a sort of… as a victory almost, by putting the Jewish symbol there, I find completely shocking.
Mark Etkind: ‘Never again!’ can only mean one thing: it is never again for anyone, not a selective ‘Never again!’, where you say that the crimes of the West don't count as genocide whereas the crimes of our official enemies do count as genocide. This, unfortunately, is the argument coming from the American and British governments. [footage of Keir Starmer talking for the Holocaust Educational Trust]. We really shouldn't let Keir Starmer get away with commemorating the Holocaust and claiming he's against genocide. He himself is directly responsible for thousands of people who've died in Gaza! I really don't think we should commemorate genocides with people who are committing genocides: it's a pretty obvious moral point but it's one that, unfortunately, we've got ourselves into.
Stephen Kapos: I noticed that Benjamin Netanyahu made a statement at Yad Vashem saying: ‘The Never Again! is now’. And that was a clear reference to the Holocaust of World War II as a justification of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. And I thought that was sacrilegious and a provocation, and the term ‘Never again!’ in our use has a completely different meaning. It means that we learned a lesson of the first World War II Holocaust and never again a repeat of it against any people.
Mark Etkind: Anyone who has watched the official media in Britain over the past year will know they have one clear line on the Jewish community and that is that it is a community that is very upset about any criticisms of Israel and this is simply unequivocally untrue and that is why I think Double Down News and other alternative media are so important. If you can afford to, please join Double Down News on Patreon.
