Antizionism Quotes

“As for terror against Israelis, Palestinian Muslim terror emanates from a desire to destroy Israel, not from Israel’s conduct regarding Palestinians, whether occupation, settlements, or checkpoints. One proof is that the greatest amount of Palestinian terror against Israel was unleashed after Israel agreed to give up nearly all of the West Bank to the Palestinians at the end of 2000. Islamist terror against Israel is the result of Muslim, especially Arab Muslim, desires to annihilate the one non-Muslim state in the midst of the Arab world. For most Arab Muslims and for all Islamists, the Middle East is supposed to be under Muslim rule. There is no place for a Christian Lebanon or for a Jewish Israel, no matter what its borders. That Israel is Jewish is all the more an affront to many Muslims. Jews are supposed to have dhimmi status under Muslim rule, and no Muslim should be under Jewish rule.”
― Dennis Prager, Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

“Countering speech with speech is important and theoretically sounds wonderful, but the reality is frequently less speech against speech than screaming against screaming and a generalized escalation of tensions (and toxicity) surrounding Israel on campus.”
― Jeffrey Kopstein, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

“We might pay heed to Hillel's urging that we 'go and study' (Talmud Tractate Shabbat, 31a). Students and others often feel they must choose a side. Bringing together Jews—and Jews and non-Jews—with different perspectives in study and discussion groups could allay the acrimony and perhaps yield paths toward more informed activism.”
― Janet Freedman

“BDS is propaganda. It operates as such. Continuous repetition of simple messages is reinforced by threat of social alienation. It is surprising how well it propagates its message of diametrically opposite factors, the sources of good and the sources of evil.”
― Shlomo Dubnov, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

“The episodes demonstrate the now-mainstream leftist belief that even those Jewish or Israeli voices that are critical of Israeli occupation must be silenced, for only eliminationist discourse is acceptable.”
― Philip Mendes, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

“As we have seen in Donald Trump's Republican primary campaign, delivering insults instead of confronting arguments is an effective tactic. In BDS's case, it purports to replace fear with contempt.”
― Cary Nelson, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

“As many of us have witnessed, BDS tactics are brilliant. Boycott has never been its aim; what university would go along with such a childish, antiacademic idea? Its aim has always been to bombard campuses with an endless stream of anti-Israel resolutions. The charges may vary from season to season, the authors may rotate, and it matters not whether a resolution passes or fails, nor whether it is condemned or hailed. The victory lies in having a stage, a microphone, and a finger pointing at Israel saying, 'On trial!”
― Judea Pearl, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

“Selective neutrality should be the instrument with which the university administration distinguishes those who contribute to a respectful campus climate and productive discourse and debate from those who disrupt such a climate and discriminate against various identities. It must be selective, not in the sense of being inconsistent but in the sense of defining and shaping appropriate campus norms.”
― Judea Pearl, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

“The more I read about the group, however, the clearer it became that it lacks a focused ideological backbone. It, in fact, provides a virtual home for postmodern anticolonialist views, communism, and even Jihadism. Mostly, it provides a reference group for young students who look for social ties and a sense of self-significance. Not surprisingly, though, the strongest ideological denominators among many of the activists were anti-Israelism and antisemitism.”
― Ami Pedahzur, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

“When we permit the anti-Israel hostility, we permit the antisemitism. We can no longer permit it.”
― Eliana Kohn, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

“Part of the reason it's so hard to defend Israel is that facts and truth have lost their importance and been replaced by feeling and emotion.”
― Jared Samilow, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

“When the very professors and departments are the source of the hatred and disseminate propaganda disguised as fact and offer speakers without credentials as if they are experts, what chance, really, does the next generation of students have of learning the truth about Israel?”
― Daniel Swindell, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

“But in our zeal for activism, we have forgotten that when a student government takes a side in a conflict, when it decides that there are not two sides after all, it thereby abandons its role in the scholarly mission of the institution for the activism. And as the Judicial Board noted, where a student government's objective should be to protect and promote the interests of minorities, including minority opinions, against the tyranny of the majority, when the government chooses one side, it becomes the tyrannical majority instead. That is the moment when the activism begotten by scholarship overthrows the scholarship - the moment when the university launches its own destruction.”
― Andrew Pessin, Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS

“Haredi leaders were afraid that if Jews were to free themselves from their anti-Semitic enemies in various European countries, the rank and file of European Jewry would turn their backs on Jewish religion, and the Haredi world would cease to exist. This did not happen. Haredi Jews never had it so good as they now have it in Israel, where their numbers reach well above one million.

During World War II, my maternal grandfather was given the opportunity, by members of the Jewish Agency, to save himself and the community he led from the approaching Romanian Fascists, aided and guided by the Nazis, who were about to catch up with the Jews of his town. The Jewish Agency people offered to smuggle him and others of his community out of Romania and into the soon-to-be-formed State of Israel. He refused. ”I would rather be with the Nazis," he said to them, "than with the Zionists." When the Fascists and the Nazis finally arrived at the gates of his town, he welcomed them with bread and salt, the way kings were once welcomed when entering a city. In response, they emptied their bullets on his head, took those of his children who were in town to the nearby Rut River, threw them into the water, making sure they drowned to death, then shot his wife, the mother of the drowned children. His daughter, my mother, never forgave the Zionists for the Nazis' crimes. Makes sense? No. Man's reality is rarely logic's best friend.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Careful, Beauties Ahead!

“If i and my two sons got on a plane tomorrow and flew to Tel Aviv, we could become citizens the day after. By Friday, we could be living in a settlement in the West Bank as a citizen of Israel with full rights that the Palestinians do not have. That's a racist situation.

If we have the right to return so-called after 2,000 years, not that i can prove that i came from there, why doesn't the Palestinian, who still carries in his pocket the deed to his parents home, have the right to even talk about the right of return?”
― Gabor Maté