On June 30, 2024, 100,000 Jews protested in Jerusalem against Isr•el’s high court’s recent decision to draft Orthodox men into the Isr•eli army. Anti-Zionist Jews refuse to serve in the Isr•eli army and carry out its actions. According to Judaism, Jews are forbidden to occupy another land, have their own sovereign state, or wage wars against any nation.
Protest banners read: “Isr•el’s army is a brainwashing cult” and “The Zionist army does not serve the citizens; it serves Zionism.” Banners displayed on poles read: “We will not enlist in the enemy army!”
A banner on a building in the center of the protest read: “The Jewish nation is against the Zionist bloodshed committed in the name of the Jewish nation.” Other banners read: “I am a Jew, therefore I will not enlist in the Zionist army” and “Zionists use Jews as human shields.”
During the protest, Zionist police ruthlessly attacked protestors. Zionist police carelessly injured protestors with horses. Police used water cannons to spray chemical skunk water on protestors. Young boys confronted police harassment.
As I understand it, some of the Haredi are anti-zionist. Of those there are some that think only god can bring about zion and its heresy or something to attempt to do so politically, caring little or nothing for Palestinians themselves. There are some others which do see the occupation and treatment of Palestinians as immoral and an affront to their religious beliefs, some of those are even deeply committed to the Palestinian cause. I’ve seen cases of those Haredi waving the Palestine flag, swarming and harassing IOF out of Jerusalem and West Bank settlements.
But yeah, most of them enjoy the privilege of being a special class in Isn’treal society. They want the whole colonial project, but think the blood belongs on someone else’s hands.