International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network

Sara KershnarJ.P. FREIRE. [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/1135924/student-anti-zionists-bar-jews-pro-israel-advocates-from-free-and-open-event/ Student anti-Zionists bar Jews, pro-Israel advocates from "free and open" event], Washington Examiner, January 30, 2011. and others founded the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network in 2008.

The IJAN views Zionism as a racist movement, and Israel as an apartheid state. The charter of the organization states "[w]e are an international network of Jews who are uncompromisingly committed to struggles for human emancipation, of which the liberation of the Palestinian people and land is an indispensable part. Our commitment is to the dismantling of Israeli apartheid, the return of Palestinian refugees, and the ending of the Israeli colonization of historic Palestine." It calls for the unconditional freeing of all Palestinian prisoners in Israel.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} The group also opposes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, capitalism,{{citation needed|date=May 2016}} and Islamophobia.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Prominent members of IJAN include feminist activist Selma James and the late Holocaust survivor Hajo Meyer. It comprises groups in the United States,Rebecca Tumposky. [http://special.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/opinion/24489909-47/jewish-jews-israel-zionism-anti.csp Group aims to provide voice for Jews who oppose Zionism], registerguard.com, February 24, 2010. Canada, India, Argentina, and several European countries.{{cite book|last=Landy|first=David|title=Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights: Disapora Jewish Opposition to Israel|year=2011|publisher=Zed Books|isbn=978-1-84813-926-8|page=118}}

During the Gaza War (2008–2009) six members chained themselves to the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles, California, while around 40 others protested in front, shutting it down for two hours.{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/community/article/protesters_human_chain_blocks_israeli_consulate_entrance_20090122|title=Community Briefs|publisher=Jewish Journal|date=2009-01-22|accessdate=2016-01-19}} Members of IJAN participated in a protest in London at the same time.{{cite news|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/downing-street-appalled-by-gaza-violence-28459462.html|title=Downing Street 'appalled' by Gaza violence|newspaper=Belfast Telegraph|date=2008-12-29|accessdate=2014-03-26}}

In 2010, Ireland's national trade-union federation invited the Network to a conference in Dublin about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.{{cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=173314|title=Irish unions host 'anti-Israel' parley|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|date=2010-04-16|accessdate=2011-10-16|first=Johnny|last=Paul}}

IJAN member and Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer,{{cite news|author=Exclusive: Graeme Murray and Chris Watt|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/auschwitz-survivor-israel-acts-like-nazis-1.1000918?97877|title=Auschwitz survivor: 'Israel acts like Nazis'|newspaper=Herald Scotland|date=2010-01-24|accessdate=2011-10-26}} author of The End of Judaism: An Ethical Tradition Betrayed, was a key speaker in IJAN's 2010–11 "Never Again – For Anyone" tour, with talks in the UK and Ireland.

{{cite news|author=Oliver Zwartong|title=Auschwitz survivor supports campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel|publisher=Indymedia Ireland|date=January 30, 2010|url=http://www.indymedia.ie/article/95644|accessdate=October 15, 2011}}

In 2011, IJAN was one of a number of organizations that organized a 13-city speaking tour of the United States, which according to the Jerusalem Post "compares Israel's relations with the Palestinians to the Nazis' treatment of Jews during the Holocaust".{{cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=207055|title=Pro-Palestinians invoke Shoah, raise Jewish ire|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|accessdate=2011-10-26|first=Jordana|last=Horn}}

In November 2012, members of the IJAN participated in a protest against a meeting of the Jewish National Fund in Toronto.[http://www.crescent-online.net/2012/11/canadian-jewish-community-holds-anti-zionist-picket-crescent-onlinenet-3447-articles.html "Canadian Jewish community holds anti-Zionist picket"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030414/http://www.crescent-online.net/2012/11/canadian-jewish-community-holds-anti-zionist-picket-crescent-onlinenet-3447-articles.html |date=2016-03-04 }}, Crescent International, November 2012.

Irish academic David Landy describes IJAN as one of the few Jewish organizations not to "sideline" anti-Zionism, "believing Zionism to be the underlying problem that must be tackled in order to achieve Palestinian liberation and incidentally reclaim the Jewish commitment to liberation".{{cite book|last=Landy|first=David|title=Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights: diaspora Jewish opposition to Israel|year=2011|publisher=Zed Books|location=London/New York|isbn=978-1-84813-926-8|pages=213–14}}

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has said that although the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network does not organise "a significant number of events", it has an important role "in creating policy and setting anti-Israel agendas".{{cite web|url=http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Israel/top_ten_anti_israel_groups.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_2|title=The Top Ten Anti-Israel Groups in America: The Top Ten|publisher=ADL|accessdate=2011-10-26|quote=Other groups, like the Council for the National Interest (CNI), the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network and the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, have important roles in creating policy and setting anti-Israel agendas but do not organize a significant number of events.|archive-date=2012-10-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006164148/http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Israel/top_ten_anti_israel_groups.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_2|url-status=dead}}

In 2010, the Jerusalem Post correspondent Jonny Paul characterised IJAN as a "small radical fringe group".{{cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=173314|title=Irish unions host 'anti-Israel' parley|date=2010-04-16|accessdate=2011-10-30|first=Johnny|last=Paul|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|quote=ICTU has also invited a member of a small radical fringe group called the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network}}

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• [http://www.ijan.org/ International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network web site]
• [http://www.ijan.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/IJAN-Charter-Booklet.pdf Charter of the International Jewish anti-Zionist Network]. September 29, 2008.

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