This is a reprint of a LinkedIn post by Jo Fallshaw, who lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Zionism is a modern nationalist movement to create an Apartheid State of Israel on stolen Palestinian land and ethnically cleanse the indigenous population.

Judaism is an ancient culture and religion prevalent throughout the world.

Conflating the two concepts is racist – because assuming that all Jewish people support Zionism is demonstrably untrue: many, many Jewish people vehemently and vocally oppose Zionism.

Jewish Voice for Peace explains the difference well:

In order to preserve Israel as a Jewish Supremacy Israel must continue Apartheid and Ethnic cleansing – otherwise Palestinians will be the voting majority. That’s the reality of the ‘demographic threat’.

This is why Palestinians have been denied the Right of Return (after Zionists stole their land) and denied Voting Rights in the Illegally Occupied Palestinian Territories, despite Israel having total control over those territories since 1967 (as confirmed by the ICC).

Illegal ‘Settlers’ have voting rights in the West Bank while Palestinians are denied voting rights. They live under brutal military rule and Apartheid with the wild approval of the vast majority of Israelis. It is appalling and inherent to preserving the Jewish Majority and therefore the Jewish Supremacy.

Zionism is the ideology that is being used to ethnically cleanse and genocide Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.

That’s the reality of Zionism. ‘A homeland for the Jews, where Jews can have self-determination’ sounds innocuous…. Until you realise that the homeland they chose was already populated by indigenous Palestinians who were brutally exterminated and ethnically cleansed so Zionists could steal their land…. And until you realise that the ‘demographic threat’ posed by Palestinians requires Apartheid and continued ethnic cleansing to maintain the Jewish Supremacy.

So Israel is trapped in the brutality of implementing daily racism and military control to prevent peaceful multiculturalism and equality. Implementing Zionism involves twisting your humanity to see Palestinians as subhuman. Listen to the leaders of Zionist expansion speak and they spew genocidal hate speech with violent zeal. We have seen that before… History is repeating. Zionists are vehemently justifying starving two million people to death – half of whom are children.

Links to the 65 Apartheid laws in Israel and the illegally occupied Palestinian Territories:

Apartheid Laws in Israel

A Threshold Crossed – Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution (2021)

Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians – A Look Into Decades of Oppression and Domination (2022)

This is Apartheid Source: B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories