Backlash Defense Overview

International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network Says: Never Again For Anyone

The Israelis tried to dehumanize thePalestinians, just like the Nazis tried to dehumanize me." -- Dr. HajoMeyer, Holocaust Survivor

"My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town. AGerman soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to providecover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza." --Sir Gerald Kaufman, MP

"The world said we would never allow that to happen again. The uprising ofthe Warsaw Ghetto -- the Intifada of the Jewish prisoners in Poland in 1943 --actually inspires us here in Gaza." -- Dr. Haidar Eid, Al-Aqsa University,Gaza

For more than six decades, Zionists have dominated global discussion of theNazi genocide. By their account, the Holocaust unleashed a level of sufferingunmatched by any other event in history.

The lesson, they claim, is that Jews require a separate state in which they area demographic majority and exercise legalized supremacy over the non-Jewishindigenous population.

This Zionist narrative withstands neither historical nor moral scrutiny.

Far from being the unique tragedy Zionists have proclaimed it, Jewish sufferingunder the Nazis has numerous historical parallels. The Holocaust itselftargeted and massacred not only Jews, but also millions of others whom Nazislikewise regarded as "subhuman," including Roma, Slavs, gay people,and people with disabilities.

IJAN-TC Statement of Support for Dr. Waziyatawin

In early January 2011, Dakota activist, scholar and author Dr. Waziyatawin was called by the FBI and questioned about her beliefs and a speech she gave at Winona State University in November '10. IJAN-TC, in our work against racism and colonialism, viewed this call from the FBI as an attempt to isolate and intimidate a member of our community for Truth Telling.

IJAN workshop at this year's Creating Change conference

IJAN-TC and Birthright Unplugged are partnering to present a workshop titled "The Exploitation of Queers; Pinkwashing, Palestine and our Joint Struggles."

Sunday, February 6th at 9am in Minneapolishttp://creatingchange.org/

Workshop description:The language and ideology of LGBT equality and rights is currently being used by the U.S. and Israeli governments to mask racism, colonialism, and the oppression of Palestinian people, while furthering Islamophobia. In this workshop we will learn the history of this tactic, known as Pinkwashing. We will look at campaigns that challenge Pinkwashing, further Palestinian liberation and support indigenous sovereignty. We will also consider our personal stakes in this work, and explore methods of integrating international solidarity into our work for queer liberation.