“Not in my name” — The story of a Jewish dissident who left Zionism

cross‐posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4062599

When I became anti‐Zionist in […] ’72, fifty‐one years ago, my father’s first reaction was calling me a terrorist. And so for some years we just had a shouting match. I was all the time telling my dad that [this neocolony] is not satisfied with a ’67 occupation and not with the Nakba. But that it also wants to occupy Lebanon. And he dismissed it, no way. So when in ’82, [neocolonists] invaded Lebanon, clearly with a view to occupy Lebanon, […] that was a massive shift in my father. And after that, he became my biggest supporter.

In the ’80s, he was saying that how he suffered from antisemitism as a child [under German Fascism] was nothing as the racism that [Zionist settlers] have against Palestinians.