Introduction

Zionism is not just another ideology.
It is not a national project. It is not a refuge for a persecuted people.
It is a colonial enterprise, deliberately planned, born in the parlours of imperial Christian Europe, financed by financial elites, imposed by force, legitimised through tears.

From the outset, this project was not about coexistence, nor even survival. It was about domination.
Domination over land. Over a people. Then over a region. Then over narratives. Then over institutions. And finally, over the world.

Zionism built a state founded on theft and violence, and extended its tentacles far beyond Palestine.
It infiltrates governments, manipulates media, controls narratives, dictates wars, guides sanctions, silences artists and humiliates entire populations.
It wields the memory of the Holocaust as a weapon. It turns all criticism into blasphemy. Every dissident voice becomes “antisemitic”, every Palestinian a “terrorist”, every massacre an act of “self-defence”.

Today, Zionism is no longer merely an ideology.
It is a global regime. A machine. A network. A system.

And that system kills.

It kills in Palestine. Quietly. With European money, with American bombs, with the complicity of Arab monarchies and the cowardice of the United Nations.
It kills Gaza’s children, Jenin’s poets, journalists, doctors, and mothers.
It kills language. It kills truth. It kills hope.

This dossier is a response to that system.
A counter-narrative. A dissection of power. A call to rupture.
It is time to name the enemy. To expose it. To dismantle it.

Not out of hatred.
But in the name of liberation.

1. Zionism is not Judaism

Zionism is a political ideology officially born in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland, during the First Zionist Congress convened by Theodor Herzl. An Austro-Hungarian journalist, Herzl proposed the creation of an independent Jewish state as a solution to rising antisemitism in Europe. The Basel congress marked the beginning of a structured project aimed at establishing a Jewish state in Palestine, then under Ottoman rule.

From its inception, Zionism followed a colonial logic. It was based on the idea of an exclusive right of return for Jews to a land already inhabited. It envisioned the acquisition or seizure of land, the displacement of local populations, and the creation of an ethno-national state built on racial, linguistic and religious foundations.

Contrary to the narrative promoted by the Israeli state and most Western media, Zionism is not a natural continuation of Judaism. It represents a sharp ideological rupture. Judaism is a diasporic, apolitical religion, grounded in law, transmission and spirituality. For centuries, it maintained a symbolic relationship with the Holy Land, with no ambition of military conquest or state sovereignty. Zionism broke with that tradition. It offered a political, secular and nationalist solution that transformed a religious identity into a state project.

From the very beginning, this project was met with strong opposition from within Jewish communities. The Bund, a powerful Jewish socialist movement in Eastern Europe, denounced Zionism as bourgeois, racist and counter-revolutionary. It advocated for Jewish emancipation through class struggle, not territorial exile. In the religious sphere, movements such as Neturei Karta and Satmar — still active today — condemned Zionism as heresy. According to their theological interpretation, only the Messiah can restore Israel, and any human attempt to do so is a rebellion against divine law.

Zionist ideology capitalised on the Second World War and the Shoah to accelerate its agenda. Despite its leaders’ failure to protect or mobilise for Europe’s Jews during the genocide, the Zionist movement leveraged the trauma to gain international legitimacy. The memory of the Holocaust was turned into a diplomatic tool, an emotional lever, and an unchallengeable justification. Since then, any critique of Zionism has been systematically reduced to antisemitism, in a deliberate confusion that blocks rational debate.

This confusion is one of the pillars of the impunity Israel has enjoyed since its creation. It allows the criminalisation of solidarity with Palestinians, the silencing of dissident Jewish voices, and the transformation of legitimate political criticism into a hate crime.

It is essential to draw this distinction. Zionism is a political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe. Judaism is a millennia-old religion. To conflate them is to reproduce a propaganda narrative. To distinguish them is to reject false equivalences, protect historical memory, and restore truth.

2. The creation of the State of Israel: founding myth and ethnic cleansing

The State of Israel was not born of a miracle, nor of an “ancestral return”, and certainly not on an empty land. It was established by force, through a planned war, a deliberate strategy of ethnic cleansing, and international backing secured through diplomatic manoeuvring, political alliances and narrative control.

In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Partition Plan for Palestine (Resolution 181), which proposed the creation of two states: one Jewish and one Arab. This plan awarded 55% of the territory to the Zionists, despite the fact that they made up only about a third of the population and owned less than 7% of the land. The Palestinian Arab majority rejected this externally imposed project, seeing it as a blueprint for dispossession.

Following the adoption of the plan, Zionist militias — Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi — launched a systematic military offensive. Between November 1947 and May 1948, they carried out over 200 operations aimed at expelling Palestinians, destroying villages, terrorising civilians and seizing land well beyond the UN’s proposed borders. This campaign, referred to even by Israeli historians as “Plan Dalet”, laid the foundation for large-scale ethnic cleansing.

On 9 April 1948, the Deir Yassin massacre — in which over one hundred Palestinian civilians were killed — marked a turning point. The attacks multiplied, panic spread, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled under threat of violence. By the time David Ben-Gurion unilaterally declared the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948, more than 300,000 Palestinians had already been displaced. This marked the beginning of the Nakba — the catastrophe.

Between 1947 and 1949, more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes, over 500 villages were destroyed, and the return of the displaced was permanently banned. Land was confiscated, and retroactive laws were passed to legitimise the theft. This was not a by-product of war. It was a calculated policy, well documented by critical Israeli historians such as Ilan Pappé, who openly refers to it as ethnic cleansing.

The 1948 war was not defensive. It was a war of conquest. It continued in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, and beyond. Each war served to expand territory, entrench apartheid and strengthen regional dominance. Each ceasefire consolidated impunity.

Israel’s founding is often presented as a moral victory of post-Holocaust justice. In reality, it was one of the greatest political crimes of the 20th century — a state born of theft, expulsion and denial.

To this day, the right of return for Palestinian refugees is denied, in direct violation of UN Resolution 194. Palestinians remain in exile, under military occupation, or trapped in administrative ghettos. And all of this is still sold to the world as “democracy”.

The founding myth of Israel hides a fundamental truth: it was not a birth, but a forced replacement. Not redemption, but erasure.

3. Zionist control over the United States: money, influence, war

Since the 1960s, Israel has exercised an unparalleled level of influence over United States foreign policy. This relationship is not built on shared values or historical bonds, but on a calculated strategy of infiltrating power structures, controlling key financial and institutional levers, and weaponising the memory of the Holocaust as a diplomatic and moral shield.

The main vehicle of this influence is AIPAC — the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — founded in 1951. Though officially independent, AIPAC functions in practice as an extension of Israeli interests within the US Congress. It does not merely lobby legislators: it selects candidates, funds their campaigns, and orchestrates their rise or fall based on their loyalty to the pro-Israel agenda. No other country on Earth enjoys such a powerful and sustained grip over the legislative body of the United States.

Every year, Israel receives over $3.8 billion in US military aid. These funds are approved without debate, without conditions, regardless of Israel’s repeated and documented violations of international law and human rights. At the same time, the United States uses its UN Security Council veto power to systematically block any resolution critical of Israel — even in the face of confirmed massacres. This is not a strategic alliance. It is submission. The diplomatic, military, and media apparatus of the world’s leading superpower is mobilised to defend a foreign state.

This influence extends well beyond formal politics. It permeates Hollywood, the corporate media, think tanks, universities, and campaign finance networks. Organisations like CAMERA, the ADL, and StandWithUs surveil, blacklist, and intimidate journalists, academics and activists who challenge the Israeli narrative. Criticism of Israel is marginalised, while Palestinian voices are smeared or silenced.

Since 9/11, American military policy has increasingly aligned with Israeli strategic interests. The war in Iraq — built on deliberate lies — was actively promoted by neoconservatives with close ties to the Israeli security establishment. The push for war with Iran, the destabilisation of Syria, sanctions on Lebanon and Hezbollah, and the enforced normalisation with Gulf monarchies all serve a single goal: to guarantee Israel’s regional supremacy at the cost of endless war and regional collapse.

In return, the US gains only dependency, endless conflict, and the erosion of its global legitimacy.

This is not partnership. It is colonisation in reverse.

A trap carefully engineered, where money flows one way, where principles are suspended, and where US sovereignty is sacrificed to maintain the impunity of a racist, expansionist state in permanent war.

The American empire has bowed before Israel.

And the world is paying the price.

4. The Greater Israel Project: annexation, apartheid, regional chaos

The territorial ambitions of the Israeli state have never been confined to the borders of 1948 — nor even to those of 1967. Political Zionism, in its original and most uncompromising form, has always harboured a deeper aim: the construction of a “Greater Israel”, stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates. Though rarely declared outright, this geopolitical fantasy has guided Israel’s long-standing policies of occupation, annexation, regional fragmentation and strategic domination.

After the 1967 war, Israel seized control of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula. This military victory reshaped the regional power balance and opened the gates to full-scale colonisation. These so-called “settlements” are not isolated outposts — they are state infrastructure. Exclusive roads, separate water networks, military zones, checkpoints. Every settlement is a fortress of apartheid, a territorial lock, a provocation.

Despite countless UN resolutions, rulings by the International Court of Justice and warnings from human rights organisations, settlement expansion has never ceased. On the contrary — it has accelerated under every Israeli government, whether Labour or far-right. Today, over 700,000 Israeli settlers live illegally in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. They are armed, protected by the army, subsidised by the state, and operate with near-total impunity. The prospect of a viable Palestinian state is no longer a diplomatic hope — it is a dead illusion.

In Gaza, Israel has implemented a different model: total enclosure. Since 2007, the blockade has transformed the strip into a suffocated territory — without drinkable water, with intermittent electricity, and minimal access to medical supplies or building materials. Every act of resistance is met with massive bombings, targeted assassinations and devastating military campaigns. The use of banned weapons like white phosphorus, the targeting of hospitals, schools and humanitarian convoys have turned Gaza into a live-fire testing ground — a war laboratory with a captive civilian population.

The Greater Israel project is not limited to Palestine. It is supported by a regional strategy of deliberate destabilisation. By undermining its neighbours, through direct military action or covert operations, Israel preserves its role as dominant power in a weakened Middle East. The annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights — recognised by the United States in 2019 — follows the same logic of territorial expansion normalised by brute force.

In practice, Israel has already annexed much of the West Bank. International law has been suspended. Western diplomacy is complicit or silent. International institutions have lost all authority.

The Greater Israel project is not a fringe conspiracy. It is a material, military, and political reality. It rests on the destruction of a society, the negation of a people, and the imposition of a racialised order.

As long as this project continues, there will be no peace, no justice, and no stability in the region.

5. Globalised Zionism: influence networks and authoritarian alliances

Zionism is not confined to a single land or a single people. It has transformed into an exportable geopolitical doctrine, tailored for authoritarian regimes, corporate elites and global security apparatuses. From Europe to Africa, from Latin America to the Gulf monarchies, Israel has positioned itself as a model for states seeking to control, monitor, militarise and repress. This network of alliances operates on a simple logic: market the tools of apartheid, trade impunity for impunity.

In Europe, Israeli influence is channelled through communal institutions that function as political lobbies, such as CRIF in France or BICOM in the UK. These organisations filter public debate, orchestrate smear campaigns against critical voices, and exert pressure on media and political appointments. In France, any criticism of Israel is immediately labelled antisemitic, regardless of substance or intent. This confusion is actively maintained through legislation, circulars and state-affiliated groups — all at the expense of freedom of expression and the right to information.

In the Arab world, Zionism has found strategic allies among autocratic regimes. The Abraham Accords — signed with the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan — are not peace treaties. They are repression pacts. In exchange for Israeli technology and diplomatic backing, these regimes grant recognition that legitimises apartheid. In return, they receive surveillance systems, cyber-espionage tools and crowd-control infrastructure. Normalisation is not a pact between peoples. It is a pact between intelligence agencies.

In Africa, Israel pursues an aggressive strategy of diplomatic, military and commercial penetration. It exports surveillance tech, trains security forces, props up regimes, gains access to natural resources and secures favourable votes in the United Nations. The Israeli model merges easily with existing neocolonial frameworks. It bolsters authoritarian rule, protects Western interests and sidelines popular movements.

In Latin America, Israel has long supported military dictatorships — from Argentina to Colombia. It supplies weapons, drones, spyware like Pegasus, and security advisors. It trains anti-riot police and intelligence units. In Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro openly praised Israel as a model state. In Colombia, ex-military personnel trained by the IDF now advise elites on how to suppress social movements. Zionism becomes a global power technology — deployed in service of counterinsurgency and elite security.

In every context, the goal is the same: neutralise opposition, criminalise dissent, and preserve elite impunity. Israel exports the methodology of apartheid as a global security solution. It offers a narrative, a toolkit, and a weapons package. It becomes the nexus for authoritarian ambition and surveillance capitalism.

Globalised Zionism is not a theory. It is a system. A structure of influence. A political-military marketplace. It does not only crush Palestine. It undermines the very foundations of democracy across the globe.

6. The Palestinian Genocide: open-air extermination

What is happening in Palestine is not a conflict. It is not a war. It is not a military operation. It is genocide. A systematic, planned, and deliberate process aimed at erasing a people — their memory, their land, their future.

Since October 2023, the Israeli military has waged a campaign of annihilation in Gaza that defies all limits. Over 35,000 killed, the majority of them children. Hospitals deliberately bombed. Maternity wards flattened. Journalists assassinated. Entire families buried beneath rubble. No place is safe. No ceasefire respected. No red line enforced.

Numbers alone cannot capture the horror. Survivors speak of children’s bodies burned to ash, entire neighbourhoods reduced to dust, wounded civilians executed by snipers, and people starved between tanks and drones. Israel deploys white phosphorus in populated areas, blocks humanitarian aid, cuts water, power, and fuel. It turns life into torment and death into routine.

Images stream in real time. NGOs raise alarm. Doctors cry out. The UN offers tepid statements. Yet Western powers continue to supply bombs, arms and political cover. The European Union funds UNRWA with one hand and turns a blind eye with the other. The United States provides munitions, intelligence and vetoes.

International law is suspended. The International Criminal Court paralysed. Terms like apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes no longer suffice. This is a live genocide. And its perpetrators speak openly. Israeli ministers call for Gaza to be “erased”, for Palestinians to be deported to the Sinai, for aid to be withheld until the people “break”. Some speak of a “final solution”. And no one stops them.

This genocide is also media-driven. Platforms censor Palestinian voices. Mainstream outlets recycle Israeli talking points: “targeted strikes”, “tragic errors”, “escalations”. Victims are erased. Terror is normalised. Roles are reversed. Killers become victims. Children become collateral. Atrocities become self-defence.

In 2024, killing a Palestinian child no longer shocks. It has become background noise. A statistic. A setting. That is Zionism’s true triumph: turning horror into normality.

The Palestinian genocide will not end because the bombs run out. It will end only when global civil society breaks the armour of impunity. When people stop looking away.

This is no longer about condemnation.

It is about stopping a death machine.

Now.

7. Resistance and dignity: the Palestinian people against erasure

For over seventy-five years, the Palestinian people have stood against one of the most sophisticated, violent, and enduring systems of oppression in modern history. And yet, despite expulsions, walls, prisons, bombs and starvation — they resist. They resist with weapons, with words, with their bodies, with memory. They resist because they have no choice.

Palestinian resistance is not limited to rockets or armed struggle. It takes many forms: general strikes, demonstrations, olive tree protection, cultural preservation, survivor testimonies, poetry, clandestine education, oral history. It is a fight for existence in a world that seeks to deny even the name of their suffering.

In the refugee camps of Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, generations grow up wearing the key to their demolished home around their neck. These keys are not relics. They are political statements — promises that nothing is over. That return is a right, not a dream.

There are over 6,000 Palestinian political prisoners — including children. Tortured, isolated, denied due process, they form the backbone of the resistance. Every release is met with celebration — because they represent what the oppressor fears most: steadfastness.

Women play a central role in the resistance. They organise, protect, educate, heal, and stand unarmed before soldiers. They raise children in ruins, continue to cook, write, and tell stories. They are the continuity of the people.

Palestinian resistance is also literary, artistic, and spiritual. It refuses erasure. It lives in the books of Ghassan Kanafani, the poems of Mahmoud Darwish, the graffiti of Nablus walls, the exhibitions of refugees in London and Ramallah. It lives wherever a Palestinian recounts what has been stolen from them.

This people lives under occupation, under siege, under constant threat. And yet, they continue to say no. No to annexation. No to apartheid. No to extinction.

Zionism still has not understood that Palestinian resistance is not measured in weapons or budgets. It is measured in attachment, in memory, in dignity. It is a human response to a campaign of total erasure.

Every child who screams, every elder who stays, every mother who weeps, every forbidden Arabic word, every stone thrown, every olive harvested — is an act of resistance.

And as long as this people stands, the Zionist project will never win.

8. What we must do: name, break, resist

The time for nuance is over.
What we face is not an excess, a deviation or an isolated abuse. It is a system. A political architecture built on dispossession, racism, repression and deceit. And that system has a name: Zionism.

Zionism is not an opinion. It is a machine of war.
It is not a project of coexistence. It is a blueprint for exclusion.
It is not protection for Jews. It is an identity hostage-taking operation serving a militarised state.
This system cannot be reformed. It must be dismantled.

To break with Zionism is first to break with the language of domination.
Stop calling it a “conflict” — it is a military occupation.
Stop talking about Israel’s “right to self-defence” — it is a pretext for massacre.
Stop “condemning violence on both sides” — when only one side bombs, colonises and starves.

It means breaking with deliberate confusion between Zionism and Judaism.
Rejecting the false equation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
Reaffirming that criticising a racist state is not hating a religion.
And remembering that the first victims of Zionism also included Jews — anti-colonial, universalist, silenced or exiled.

Breaking means cutting ties with complicity.
With governments arming and shielding Israel.
With media relaying its propaganda.
With NGOs too timid to say the word “genocide”.
With companies profiting from apartheid.

It also means acting.
Full boycott of Israeli goods.
Divestment from complicit companies.
Sanctions on political, military and corporate actors.
Unwavering support for the BDS movement.
Public backing of anti-Zionist Jewish voices.
Defence of censored artists, intellectuals and journalists.

It means rebuilding an international front of solidarity.
Unite oppressed peoples. Connect struggles. Build bridges between the Bantustans of the West Bank, the favelas of Brazil, the French banlieues, the Syrian refugee camps, the ZADs of Europe. Zionism is not isolated. It is central to a global regime of surveillance and repression.

Finally, it means preserving the memory of the crimes.
Not forgiving what has never been acknowledged.
Not forgetting what is still happening.
Not allowing the killers to write history.

Palestine is not alone. It is our compass.
Every bomb dropped on Gaza tests our humanity.
Every Palestinian child murdered measures our cowardice — or our courage.

We must choose. Now.
Either we collaborate.
Or we resist.

G.S.