International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network launches

The new IJAN launched this week, publishing their charter. Here is the press release, dated October 7, 2008.

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Announcing the Launch of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)



Over the Jewish High Holidays - Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur - which are a time for reflection and atonement for the individual and collective injustices we have committed or have allowed to happen...

In honor of the 60th anniversary of Al Nakba ('Catastrophe' in Arabic) and the eighth anniversary of the second Palestinian intifada which inspired a stronger solidarity movement and growing criticism of Israel...

And with hope for a year of greater possibility for justice in Palestine, the broader region and our world...

We launch the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network - IJAN - with the release of our founding charter.
Our pledge in the Charter will be carried out through our commitments to: 1) solidarity with Palestinian self-determination, 2) participation in global movements to end imperialism, and 3) the extrication of Jewish history, politics, community, and culture from the grip of Zionism.

Charter of the International Jewish anti-Zionist Network

We 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.
From Poland to Iraq, from Argentina to South Africa, from Brooklyn to Mississippi, Jews have taken up their quest for justice, and their desire for a more just world, by joining with others in collective struggles. Jews participated prominently in the workers' struggle of the depression era, in the civil rights movement, in the struggle against South African Apartheid, in the struggle against fascism in Europe, and in many other movements for social and political change. The State of Israel's historic and ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people from their land contradicts and betrays these long histories of Jewish participation in collective liberation struggles.
For the people of this planet to live in safety, justice and peace, the Israeli colonial project must be brought to an end. We joyfully take up this collective task of undermining a system of conquest and plunder that has tormented our world for far too long.
We pledge to: Oppose Zionism and the State of Israel
We pledge to: Reject the colonial legacy and on-going colonial expansion
We pledge to: Challenge Zionist organizations
We pledge to: Commit our solidarity and work toward justice
Do you stand against racism in all its forms? Then we call you to join with us in ending Israeli apartheid.


For the complete Charter, http://www.ijsn. net/about_ us/charter/