Could Zionism Be a Protected Belief Under British Law?

Save the Children UK has a documented problem with antisemitism among its staff. In March 2025, an independent review commissioned by the charity found that antisemitic and anti-Muslim slurs had persisted in the organization, contributing to employees leaving. Jewish employees reported feeling unsafe, while leadership had failed to adequately address offensive behavior.

An independent review recommended that Save the Children adopt a recognized definition of antisemitism, suggesting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition. It also recommended particular care with Nazi and Holocaust comparisons and warned against using "Zionist" as a euphemism for Jew.

But according to the Jewish Chronicle, Save the Children has decided not to adopt IHRA. Instead, it says:

Following the consultation with staff equality networks, Save the Children's leadership agreed we will use the Equality Act and Acas guidance on race and religion or belief discrimination.

Refusing to use IHRA as a guideline for what is antisemitic is problematic, since there is nothing in Acas guidance that describes how antisemitism is fundamentally different from other bigotries and therefore discrimination based on antisemitism might be invisible to an employer that relies on Acas. 

Looking at the Acas guidance, I noticed something that could be especially useful to Jews facing workplace discrimination, and potentially to Zionists who aren't Jewish at all.

The law protects philosophical beliefs, not just religions and ethnic groups. And Zionism should qualify.

The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) provides guidance to British employers on how to comply with employment law. Its guidance on religion or belief discrimination explains that the Equality Act 2010 protects philosophical beliefs as well as religious beliefs.

It gives three examples of beliefs that employment tribunals have recognized as protected:

• Ethical veganism: the moral conviction that animals should not be exploited or mistreated.

• Environmentalism: beliefs concerning the need to address climate change and protect the environment.

• Gender-critical beliefs: the conviction that a person cannot change their sex.

This means that a meat-eater is free to disagree with a vegan and discuss how much he loves hamburgers. But an employer cannot simply declare that vegans are morally misguided and refuse to hire them because of their protected belief.

Similarly, people who believe that sex is immutable and those who hold opposing convictions about gender identity may have fundamentally incompatible worldviews. Both can receive legal protection, subject to the applicable legal criteria. The law does not require them to agree with one another.

The same principle applies to religious convictions about abortion and philosophical commitments to reproductive autonomy. Whether a particular belief qualifies for protection is a separate legal question from whether someone else considers that belief morally objectionable.

The point of protecting philosophical beliefs is precisely that people can hold opposing convictions without being entitled to discriminate against one another.

Is Zionism a protected belief?

Acas sets out five requirements for a protected philosophical belief. It must be genuinely held, be more than an opinion based on currently available information, concern a significant aspect of human life, possess seriousness and coherence, and be compatible with respect for fundamental rights in a democratic society.

Zionism, understood as the belief that the Jewish people have a right to national self-determination in their ancestral homeland, should satisfy all five. It is a deeply held conviction for many people, grounded in principles of national identity, collective rights, historical continuity and self-determination. It is hardly a passing political opinion. Its adherents can articulate a coherent philosophy, and the underlying principle does not require denying fundamental rights to anyone else (despite others insisting it does.)

Acas does exclude mere loyalty to a country from protection. But Zionism is not simply loyalty to the State of Israel, much less support for whatever government happens to be in power. A Zionist can oppose Israeli government policies, demand territorial compromises or support Palestinian self-determination while remaining a Zionist.

Indeed, Acas explicitly notes that political beliefs can qualify when they satisfy the criteria for philosophical beliefs.

And British courts have already ruled that anti-Zionism is a protected philosophical belief!

In 2024, an employment tribunal ruled that David Miller, the former University of Bristol professor dismissed over his statements about Zionism and Jewish students, held a protected philosophical belief. Miller believes that political Zionism was inherently racist, imperialistic and colonial, and therefore ought to be opposed.

In August 2026, the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld the protected status of his anti-Zionist beliefs, although it also distinguished his protected beliefs from comments concerning Jewish students and student organizations that the original tribunal had considered objectionable.

I strongly disagree with this ruling. In my view, Miller's public statements and conduct reveal hostility toward Zionists that goes well beyond abstract political opposition. The tribunal nevertheless separated his stated philosophical belief from some of his conduct toward Jewish students, recognizing the former as protected while accepting that the latter could constitute misconduct. Miller's actual actions and words, in my opinion, go way beyond his carefully crafted statement to the tribunal about his supposed philosophical beliefs. 

But, bad or not, the ruling exists. And if the belief that Zionism is inherently racist can receive protection as a philosophical belief, then certainly the belief that Jews possess the same right to national self-determination as other peoples should also receive protection.

The law does not automatically recognize one belief merely because its opposite is protected. Each must satisfy the legal criteria independently. The Miller judgment establishes that a political philosophy concerning Zionism can qualify.

And Acas explicitly recognizes that opposing beliefs may coexist in the same workplace. Its guidance on preventing discrimination states explicitly, "Most organisations will have employees with different or opposing beliefs." It goes on to say that employees may hold beliefs others find offensive, but employers must ensure that expressions of those beliefs do not become discriminatory conduct.

That principle should apply to Zionism and anti-Zionism just as it applies to other competing philosophical convictions.

An anti-Zionist should be free to argue that Zionism is racism. Once Zionism is recognized as a protected philosophical belief, Zionists would have the same statutory protection against discrimination on that ground as people holding other protected philosophical beliefs. Calling a protected belief racist does not automatically give an employer permission to discriminate against people who hold it.

This provides a much easier path to protect Jewish Zionists (and other Zionists) from workplace discrimination than relying on defining Zionism as a religious belief. Like it or not, the existence of anti-Zionist Jews has made it more difficult for non-Jewish reviewers to rule consistently that Zionism fits under religion or ethnicity anti-discrimination rules. 

But if Zionism is defined as a protected philosophical belief, then Zionists should automatically qualify for the same protection as vegans or socialists. Discrimination against them would not rely on additional arguments about the relationship between Zionism and Judaism. 

It is unclear whether the independent review identified any specifically anti-Zionist discrimination at Save the Children UK. The review reported that Jewish employees felt intimidated and that some had been afraid to speak, but it didn't specify why. Recognizing Zionism as a protected belief could give employees an additional avenue of protection where hostility was directed at their Zionist convictions rather than explicitly at their Jewish identity.

Nothing about this proposal makes IHRA unnecessary as a tool for recognizing antisemitism. it is an additional tool. 

This approach could also provide a model for other jurisdictions that recognize philosophical or political beliefs as protected characteristics, although many countries do not have laws equivalent to Britain's.

Save the Children pointed to Acas as its alternative to adopting IHRA. It may have inadvertently pointed to a legal principle that offers Zionists a more direct form of workplace protection than arguments based solely on Jewish identity. 

This would be a very good test case for any remaining Zionists working at Amnesty in the UK.

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11/10 Links Pt2: The lessons of Kristallnacht and the wake-up call of Bondi; The Schwinntifada Folds; Natan Sharansky on Campus Fear and the Silent Majority; Why Bondi hero would DO IT ALL AGAIN

From Ian:

US midterms exposed frightening new reality for American Jews – time to unite and fight back

The suggestion that Jews should subordinate their own survival to a supposedly greater good carries a disturbing historical echo.

In August 1934, The New York Times reported a declaration by the Association of National German Jews, whose members said they had “always, in war or peace, placed the good of the German people and the German Fatherland above our own good”.

The declaration continued: “Accordingly, we greeted the national uprising of January 1933, although it brought rigours for us, for we saw it as the only means to clear away the damage done in fourteen unhappy years by un-German elements.”

The “national uprising” was Hitler’s accession to power. What those Jews described as “rigours” would be followed by the Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, and, ultimately, the Holocaust.

The circumstances are profoundly different. The warning concerns the reasoning: Jewish safety must never become expendable in pursuit of a supposedly higher political good.

Jewish voters who supported el-Sayed doubtless had various reasons. Some may have shared Nessel’s thinking; others may have dismissed concerns about him or considered Republican control of the Senate the greater danger. For some, an attenuated Jewish identity, expressed chiefly through universal ideals rather than attachment to Jewish peoplehood or Zionism, may also have played a part.

Universal concern is admirable. But when attachment to Jewish particularity becomes a source of discomfort, and Jewish self-preservation is viewed as an obstacle to the greater good, something has gone profoundly wrong.

Nessel’s words raise a question that reaches well beyond Michigan: when did concern for Jewish survival become a form of self-interest that Jews should be prepared to surrender?

There is nothing narrow or shameful about Jews defending their own safety, continuity, and right to exist. And no political party or individual is entitled to ask them to sacrifice any of those things.

A world that cannot make room for roughly 16 million Jews has a profound moral problem. Jewish contributions to ethics, science, medicine, and culture are extraordinary. But Jews should not have to present a catalogue of achievements to justify their existence.

Nor should tiny Israel, roughly one per cent the size of Saudi Arabia, have to prove its usefulness to earn the right to exist. Its manifold contributions to meeting humanity’s challenges deserve recognition. Its people’s right to live in peace and security, however, does not depend on them.

Michigan was not the only warning. After the Republican shellacking, Vice President JD Vance included “change our relationship to Israel” among four priorities he cited for winning back voters who had deserted his party.

The vice president of the United States was making the relationship with the Jewish state part of the explanation for his party’s electoral humiliation. He is also widely expected to seek the presidency in 2028. The pattern is all too familiar: when things go wrong, find a Jewish address for the blame. This time, the address is Israel, the lone Jewish-majority state.

Coming from someone a heartbeat away from the presidency, those words demand far more than a passing expression of concern.

Increasingly, the place of Jews in America is being called into question – a prospect many previously considered unimaginable.

Concerned Jews and Jewish groups must face these realities unflinchingly, show far greater unity of purpose, demonstrate courage and spine, develop innovative strategies, strengthen young Jews’ understanding of their history and identity, and build strong alliances.

If this is not the moment to wake up, then when is?

The Schwinntifada Folds By Abe Greenwald

Via Commentary Newsletter, sign up here. Look, it’s sickening that this happened at all. At the start of the “Free Palestine” craze, protesters wouldn’t have plainly organized an attack on Jewish-owned businesses for being Jewish-owned businesses. But they’ve grown bolder since then, winning media and political sympathy and lifting unapologetic anti-Semites into important political offices.

So if this is a kind of arms race, I’m heartened to see a significant number on our side who are ready to escalate.

I rarely give unbidden advice, and I don’t resent those who choose not to follow my counsel. But I’ve been asked, over and over, by Jews and other concerned Americans, “What can we do about the explosion in anti-Semitism?”

The truth is, it’s hard to know what to say, and my answers often come up short: learn self-defense, obtain a legal weapon, use the law to protect your rights, make a fuss, and vote for the right people—it’s not terribly inspiring. But the events of Sunday are inspiring, and I’ll say this: Look at what the Jews and their allies did in Philadelphia, repeat it, grow it, and don’t stop. Show up everywhere. Outnumber the scum and get in their faces. Above all, be brave. Don’t steer clear of targeted businesses or neighborhoods or shuls. Don’t change your life one bit to accommodate the thugs.

Think of it like this: For three years, Israeli life was upended by a brutal war. Families watched as their young men and women went off to fight the most depraved murderers on the planet. IDF soldiers hunted down their enemies from the skies and in dark tunnels and explosive-rigged buildings, and many courageous Jews have died in the process. We merely have to be brave enough to exercise our God-given rights as citizens in this free country. So, my advice is to go where you want to go, say what you want to say, and don’t back down against the likes of “Philly Bike on Your Left,” or anyone else who expects you to cower.

New Zealand’s antisemitism problem is in New Zealand, not the Middle East

New Zealanders have every right to criticize Israel, advocate Palestinian self-determination and protest peacefully. They are free to criticize any country. Those rights do not extend to threats or nationality-based harassment.

The coalition mentioned above criticized slogans such as “from the river to the sea” and “globalize the intifada,” which many understand as threatening Israel’s existence or encouraging violence.

It highlighted the Free Palestine Party, which it says received $82,000 in public election broadcasting funding, and alleged that its leader, Paul Hopkinson, celebrated Oct. 7 as a victory for Palestinian resistance. It also criticized activist John Minto for reportedly publishing photographs of Israeli visitors and encouraging hostile attention toward them.

These allegations raise questions about enforcement. New Zealand designated Hamas in its entirety as a terrorist entity in 2024 and has laws addressing material support for terrorism, harmful digital communications and harassment. Offensive political speech is not automatically criminal. But have authorities examined the reported incidents, and what conclusions have they reached?

Freedom of speech is fundamental. It does not confer a right to threaten people or facilitate violence. The law must protect Jewish citizens and Israeli visitors as firmly as everyone else.

The coalition also challenged New Zealand’s media, arguing that coverage has too often relied uncritically on Hamas-controlled sources without sufficient balance or context. Journalists must scrutinize claims from all sides, report civilian suffering honestly and distinguish verified facts from propaganda.

Māori, Christian, Jewish and Iranian representatives have united around a principle beyond politics: Jews and Israelis deserve the same safety and dignity as everyone else.

The coalition calls on politicians to act responsibly, journalists to uphold professional standards and police to respond decisively to threats and violence.

New Zealand must reflect urgently on where this hostility could lead. The antisemitic terrorist attack at Australia’s Bondi Beach last December is a stark warning of the devastating consequences of hatred. Geographical isolation offers no immunity. New Zealand must act to prevent a similar tragedy on its own soil.

New Zealand cannot control the Middle East’s geopolitical realities. But it can control how it treats Jews and Israelis within its borders.

Jewish citizens and Israeli visitors must be able to live without fear. If New Zealand cannot meet that basic standard, the problem is not in the Middle East. It is in New Zealand.

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11/10 Links Pt1: Will Trump Change the U.S.-Israel Relationship?; Israel's Problem with Arab Parties Isn't that They're Arab; Polls Find Most Americans Think Conflict with Iran Was Justified

From Ian:

Michael Doran: Will Trump Change the U.S.-Israel Relationship?

The assertion that America is fighting Israel's war rather than its own replaces an assessment of American interests with a theory of foreign manipulation. Yet the assertion explains nothing about how the U.S. would secure its interests once it abandons the policies and partnerships its critics reject.

Can Washington reach an accommodation with the Islamic Republic that reliably prevents it from acquiring nuclear weapons? If not, should it accept a nuclear-armed Iran? What would that outcome mean for the balance of power in the Middle East, and for the larger balance of power with China?

The purpose of American grand strategy is to maintain an international order that makes American freedom possible. That requires preserving the foundations of American power and prosperity: military superiority, economic dynamism, the dollar's central role in international finance, technological leadership, and secure energy supplies for the U.S. and its allies.

In the Middle East, oil is only part of the story. The Gulf monarchies command vast pools of capital increasingly important to artificial intelligence, data centers, and the infrastructure of the digital economy. Their sovereign wealth funds are major investors in global financial markets. They are also among the largest purchasers of American weapons, helping sustain the defense-industrial base on which American military power depends.

President Trump seeks to maintain American primacy without occupying countries or assuming responsibility for their internal political transformation, relying instead on economic coercion, selective military force, diplomacy, and capable regional allies. The objective is maximum American influence with the minimum necessary American military footprint.

That approach requires a regional balance in which Iran cannot dominate its neighbors. Iran has attacked American military installations across the Middle East, damaging aircraft, radar systems, communications equipment, and other infrastructure worth billions of dollars. Its missiles and drones threaten the bases through which the U.S. projects power. The U.S. is therefore confronting a challenge to its own military position and regional influence, quite apart from its obligations to Israel.

Report: U.S. Military Aid to Israel Won't End This Year

A week after President Trump said he and Prime Minister Netanyahu had agreed to end U.S. military aid to Israel by the end of this year, Ynet and Yediot Ahronot have learned that in the emerging security memorandum of understanding with the U.S., American military assistance to Israel will not end immediately.

Instead, the direct military aid will continue for five years after 2028, after which it will end entirely.

At the same time, U.S. funding for joint air and missile defense development is expected to rise from the current $500 million annually due to the increasing threat from drones and missiles.

The goal is to finalize a new agreement by the end of this year, before the new Congress takes office in January. However, Congress will still have to appropriate the aid funding each year.

Negotiations are being conducted by teams from both countries. The money is used to purchase weapons produced by U.S. defense companies.

Some members of Congress oppose reducing assistance to Israel since much of the money is ultimately spent in their own states and supports American defense manufacturers.

Secretary of State Rubio: Iran War Was "the Right Thing to Do"

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday regarding the war in Iran: "The President of the United States identified a very real threat to this country that's existed for a very long period of time, and he addressed it. And he addressed it even though, oftentimes, the right thing to do for the country...isn't necessarily popular but necessary."

"At the end of the day I think we can all agree...there used to be bipartisan acknowledgment that a nuclear Iran would be completely unacceptable and dangerous for the United States - not just Israel, not just the Middle East - the whole world and the United States."

"So I think the President took on something that other presidents have failed to do. And sometimes when you do the right thing - I don't know if it's popular or not, but it's the right thing to do. And presidents are elected to do the hard things - sometimes difficult things, but necessary things."

Polls Find Most Americans Think Conflict with Iran Was Justified

When wars cause major political shifts, they usually involve ground combat leading to thousands of American casualties, not a temporary $1.50-a-gallon increase in the price of gasoline, which costs a typical household about $20 a week. If that's enough to bring about a political sea change, then the electorate has lost all rationality, and presidents will be constrained to wait for an attack on U.S. soil before taking military action to defend America.

The Harvard CAPS/Harris polls asked if the Iranians were negotiating in good faith. 65% of respondents said no. Should the Iranians be allowed to control the Strait of Hormuz? 67% said no, including a majority of both parties. Should Iran be permitted to obtain a nuclear weapon? 85% said no. Was the U.S. justified in using force if the Iranians refuse to yield on these key issues? 63% said yes. The war has dragged on when voters wanted it to be won - and they still do.

Mr. Trump and his administration need to explain to Americans the reason we took on the Iranian regime, which is the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism and is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans over the past 47 years.

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A list of accusations made against Israel over the years

This list is far from complete. In fact, it is impossible to ever complete. I am using it as a reference in an upcoming Substack post, but it is interesting in its own right. 

This list ended up becoming a launching pad for a new analysis of anti-Zionism. 

Accusation	Accuser	Year	Genre
4,000 Jews stayed home from the World Trade Center on 9/11	Al-Manar (Hezbollah TV)	2001	Hidden hand
5,000 Moroccan soldiers fought for Israel in Gaza	Algerian media, attributed to Amr Moussa	2025	Hidden hand
50,000 tons of toxic waste buried in Gaza settlements before withdrawal	PA environment official Yousef Abu Safiyya	2005	Poison & disease
Adding Saturday to Iraq's weekend is a Zionist plot	Iraqi student protesters	2005	Hidden hand
Aid to Israel is driving American inflation	Online populists, left and right; some politicians and influencers	2022-present	Economic drain
'Al-Aqsa is in danger': Jews plotting to destroy it	Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini	1929	Holy sites
Apartheid	Soviet/Arab bloc; Durban NGO Forum (2001); HRW (2021); Amnesty (2022)	1975-2022	Exterminationist cruelty
Aphrodisiac 'sex gum' to corrupt Gaza's youth	Hamas police spokesman Islam Shahwan	2009	Sexual corruption
'Artwashing': culture and Eurovision as cover	BDS campaigns	—	'-washing'
Ashkenazim are Khazar converts, not real Jews	Issa Nakhleh at the UN; later Shlomo Sand	1970s	Erasure & theft
Assassin dolphins with harpoon harnesses	Hamas naval spokesman video	2022	Animals
Attenborough: no animal is 'so cruel as the Israelis'	Started as a comment on a Press TV article; spread on social media and news sites	2014	Fake & twisted quotes
Baby food made from calf-fattening milk	Head of Palestinian Consumer Protection Association	1998	Poison & disease
Bee-eater carrying an Israeli spy microchip	Villagers and Gaziantep agriculture official, Turkey	2012	Animals
Begin: 'The Palestinians are two-legged animals'	Robert Fisk (The Independent); alternative news sites	2014	Fake & twisted quotes
Behind Azerbaijan's hijab restrictions	Regional media	2011	Hidden hand
Behind Egypt's wave of self-immolations	Egyptian reports	2011	Hidden hand
Ben-Gurion's 1937 letter: 'We must expel Arabs and take their place'	The Economist, The Independent, Baltimore Sun; anti-Zionist historians	1937 (letter); cited from 1980s	Fake & twisted quotes
Ben-Gurion: 'The old will die and the young will forget'	Widely attributed online and in speeches	—	Fake & twisted quotes
Bennett: 'I've killed a lot of Arabs in my life'	News sites; social media	2013	Fake & twisted quotes
Bernard-Henri Levy engineered the Arab Spring so Israel could dominate	Masr-Alyoum (Egypt)	2015	Hidden hand
Boars carrying swine flu	Ma'an	2009	Animals
Boars released by settlers (renewed)	Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (PA official daily)	2022	Animals
Boars that attack Arab gardens after sunset	Ma'an	2008	Animals
Bombed Al-Ahli hospital, killing 471	Gaza Health Ministry; repeated by NYT, BBC, others	2023	Exterminationist cruelty
Burning tires in Gaza is 'counter-violence' that redistributes Israel's pollution	Ido Fuchs, Praktyka Teoretyczna	2024	Green libels
Carcinogenic 'killer food' sent to Palestinian markets	Yousef Abu Safiyya, to IslamOnline	2005	Poison & disease
Carcinogenic hormones in meat sold to Palestinians	Head of Palestinian Consumer Protection Association	1998	Poison & disease
Cattle fitted with eavesdropping devices	Village elder via Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (PA)	2022	Animals
Caused Gaza's mosquito infestation	Mayor of Nuseirat	2003	Animals
Caused the 2023 Turkey earthquake with buried electromagnetic cables	Residents of Antakya (reported by L'Orient-Le Jour)	2023	Nature & weather
Causing the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami with a nuclear test	Egyptian press	2004	Nature & weather
Confiscated a WHO team's medicine bags at the Gaza crossing	Gaza Health Ministry	2024	Exterminationist cruelty
Congress is a tool of American Jews	Issa Nakhleh at the UN	1972	Hidden hand
Cows invading Lebanon, drinking its water under IDF protection	The Daily Star (Lebanon)	c. 2011	Animals
'Cultural genocide' by calling falafel and hummus Israeli	Activists	2017	Erasure & theft
'Dancing Israelis' were Mossad agents with foreknowledge of 9/11	9/11 truthers; Arab and Iranian media	2001	Hidden hand
Deliberately killed Muhammad al-Durrah	France 2 report; Palestinian leadership	2000	Exterminationist cruelty
Depleted-uranium bullets to give Palestinians Hiroshima-level cancer	Yasser Arafat	2004	Poison & disease
Desalination is a PR export that 'naturalizes colonial domination'	Holmes and O'Neill, Science, Technology, & Human Values	2026	Green libels
Digging under the Temple Mount to make Al-Aqsa collapse	PA leadership (1996 Western Wall tunnel riots); Raed Salah; PA media	1996-present	Holy sites
Divert Israel's aid and we could fix (healthcare / housing / schools / Flint / homelessness...)	Activists, politicians, campaign slogans	—	Economic drain
Dogs trained to rape Palestinian detainees	Euro-Med Monitor; NYT's Nicholas Kristof (May 2026); UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese to the Irish parliament (Nov 2026)	2024	Animals
'Domicide' in Gaza	UN Special Rapporteur on housing	2024	Erasure & theft
Drugs hidden in flour sacks sent as Gaza aid	Gaza Government Media Office	2025	Poison & disease
Eagle shot down as an Israeli spy	Hezbollah	2013	Animals
'Ecocide' in Gaza	Activists, academics, Forensic Architecture	2024	Nature & weather
Egyptian vulture and white pelican spying on Sudan	Sudanese authorities	1970s-80s	Animals
Einstein: 'my greatest sadness to see Zionists' do to Palestinians what Nazis did	Mohamed Hadid; John McDonnell; Etan Thomas	—	Fake & twisted quotes
Fabricated Darfur to dominate from the Nile to the Euphrates	Muhammad Keshk, Al-Thawrah (Syria)	2006	Hidden hand
Famine in Gaza	IPC famine declaration for Gaza City; UN agencies	2025	Exterminationist cruelty
Ferguson and Gaza are one occupation: Israel militarized US police	'Ferguson to Gaza' organizers; cited by Jasbir Puar	2014	Hidden hand
Flooding Gaza by opening dams	Hamas officials; repeated by AFP, Al Jazeera, Daily Mail	2012-2015	Nature & weather
Flooding markets with spoiled food to cause 'slow death' and alter Palestinian genetic codes	Head of Palestinian Consumer Protection Association	1998	Poison & disease
Food with carcinogens and hormones that harm male virility	PA Deputy Minister of Supplies	1997	Poison & disease
Free-range chickens 'accommodate the logic of territorial expansion'; goats help Jews 'self-indigenize'	Grosglik et al., Environment and Planning D	2021	Green libels
Gaza aid system is a 'booby trap' to starve and kill Palestinians	Amnesty International	2025	Exterminationist cruelty
Gaza is a laboratory for testing weapons	Antony Loewenstein, 'The Palestine Laboratory'	2023	Hidden hand
Genocide (1967 version)	Issa Nakhleh, Palestine Arab Delegation at the UN	1967	Exterminationist cruelty
Genocide at Sabra and Shatila	UN General Assembly	1982	Exterminationist cruelty
Genocide in Gaza	South Africa at the ICJ; UN rapporteurs; NGOs	2023	Exterminationist cruelty
Graffiti on mosques is official Israeli policy	PLO Executive Committee (WAFA, Arabic)	2014	Holy sites
'Greenwashing': JNF forests planted to erase villages	Activists	—	'-washing'
Griffon vulture conservation advances 'the Zionist mission'	Irus Braverman, 'Mother Drone, Mother Nature' (SSRN)	2023	Green libels
Griffon vulture R65 spying for Mossad	Saudi paper Al-Weeam and other Saudi media	2011	Animals
Gum that arouses Egyptian women	Egyptian media	—	Sexual corruption
Gum with 'a sexually-stimulating adrenaline substance' sold in PA areas	PA officials	1990s	Sexual corruption
Harry Potter is 'a billion-dollar Zionist project'	Kayhan (Iran); Iranian state TV documentary (2009)	2007	Hidden hand
Harvesting and collecting Palestinian skin	CAIR official	2026	Blood & bodies
Helped assassinate Pierre Gemayel	Syrian minister Bouthaina Shaaban	2006	Hidden hand
'Hitler was supporting Zionism'	Ken Livingstone	2016	Zionists & Nazis
HIV-positive Israeli women sent to infect Egyptians	Egyptian press (Al-Ahram columnists and others)	1992	Poison & disease
'Humanitarian-washing': disaster relief teams as PR	Activists	—	'-washing'
Hyenas released on Palestinians	—	—	Animals
IDF and Nature Authority dumping pigs in Arraba	Palestine Today	2009	Animals
IDF are 'cowards' who fight from the sky instead of fairly	Common in activist and media rhetoric	—	Exterminationist cruelty
IDF field hospital harvesting organs in Haiti	YouTube video; Press TV; Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami; Baroness Tonge	2010	Blood & bodies
IDF kills Palestinians to harvest organs	Aftonbladet (Sweden)	2009	Blood & bodies
IDF soldiers' rarity of rape proves they dehumanize Palestinians	Tal Nitzan, Hebrew University thesis	2010	Sexual corruption
Implicated in the assassination of Gibran Tueni	Iran FM spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi; Tishreen (Syria)	2005	Hidden hand
Injected 300 Palestinian children with HIV	PA complaint to the UN in Geneva	—	Poison & disease
Injecting Palestinians with HIV	PA officials; Al-Hayat Al-Jadida	—	Poison & disease
Intelligence by talismans, genie devils and Kabbalah	Mohammad Bagheri, IRGC-affiliated novelist	2021	Occult
Intentional starvation of Gaza as a method of war	ICC Prosecutor; UN rapporteurs; NGOs	2024	Exterminationist cruelty
Invented bird flu to target Arab genes	Abd al-Rahman Ghunaym, Al-Thawrah (Syria)	2006	Poison & disease
ISIS beheadings come from the Torah	Al Watan Voice	2015	Hidden hand
Israel assassinated JFK	Michael Collins Piper, 'Final Judgment'	1994	Hidden hand
Israel bans DNA testing to hide that Jews are 'Khazars'	Online Khazar-theory promoters	—	Erasure & theft
Israel blew up the Beirut port	Various	2020	Hidden hand
Israel bombed the Alexandria Coptic church	Iranian media	2011	Hidden hand
Israel buying Djerba property near the Ghriba synagogue for a 'Zionist settlement'	Tunisie Telegraph; social media; Rai al-Youm columnist	2026	Secret land grabs
Israel buying property around Sanliurfa by hidden deals	Turkish MP Abdulkadir Oncel, parliamentary question	1998	Secret land grabs
Israel engineered South Sudan's independence	Iranian-linked media	2011	Hidden hand
Israel fabricated the Oct 7 sexual violence	Grayzone, Electronic Intifada and others	2024	Hidden hand
Israel had Charlie Kirk killed	Candace Owens	2025	Hidden hand
Israel harvests Palestinian organs for scientific research	Jasbir Puar, Vassar lecture	2016	Blood & bodies
Israel is the one nation that benefits from ISIS crimes	Al Watan Voice	2015	Hidden hand
Israel killed most of its own people on Oct 7 (Hannibal)	Electronic Intifada, Grayzone	2023	Hidden hand
Israel killed Rafik Hariri	Hezbollah / Nasrallah	2010	Hidden hand
Israel plants fake artifacts in Jerusalem to invent a Jewish past	PA officials; Jerusalem Islamic Waqf; regional media	—	Erasure & theft
Israel poisoned Yasser Arafat	PA officials; Fatah inquiry under Tawfiq Tirawi; Al Jazeera documentary (2012)	2004	Hidden hand
Israel secretly allied with Iran against the Arabs, with $30 billion invested	Iraq Akhbar	2015	Hidden hand
Israel stunts Palestinian children's growth with calorie limits	Jasbir Puar, Vassar lecture	2016	Exterminationist cruelty
Israel trains US police to kill Black people ('Deadly Exchange')	JVP 'Deadly Exchange' campaign	2017	Hidden hand
Israel uses interfaith events as a trojan horse for Zionism	David Miller	2019	Hidden hand
Israel waging an 'all-out onslaught on the left globally'	David Miller	2021	Hidden hand
Israel wanted Oct 7 as a pretext for genocide	Activists; various commentators	2023	Hidden hand
Israel's 10-agorot coin shows a map of Greater Israel	Yasser Arafat, holding up the coin at the UN in Geneva	1990	Secret land grabs
Israel, Britain and the US caused Iranian plane crashes	Iranian Interior Minister, on Al Jazeera	2006	Hidden hand
Israeli archaeology is a colonial tool for manufacturing a national myth	Nadia Abu El-Haj, 'Facts on the Ground' (Chicago)	2001	Erasure & theft
Israeli messaging app Odigo sent warnings before 9/11	9/11 truthers	2001	Hidden hand
Israeli real-estate investment in Europe is 'globalizing apartheid'	UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese (deleted post)	2026	Secret land grabs
Israelis buying land around Petra	Jordanian lawmakers	2016	Secret land grabs
Israelis buying vast farmland in southeastern Turkey	Turkish media	2004	Secret land grabs
Israelis/Jews secretly buying Iraqi hotels and land near shrines	Al Jazeera ('An Israeli Assault on Iraqi Real Estate'); fatwa by Ayatollah Kazem al-Haeri	2003	Secret land grabs
Jellyfish, Mossad-trained and lethal, in the Red Sea	Mustafa Ismail, Egyptian TV	2010	Animals
Jenin 'massacre' of ~500	Saeb Erekat	2002	Exterminationist cruelty
Jewish pistachio family got the US to bomb Iran	Online, after 'Pistachio Wars' documentary	2026	Hidden hand
Jewish refugees from Arab countries are a fabrication	Mahmoud Aqrabawi, Jordan's Department of Palestinian Affairs	2012	Erasure & theft
Jewish schools 'groom Jewish extremists'	David Miller	2022	Hidden hand
Jewish students are 'political pawns' of a 'violent, racist foreign regime'	David Miller	2021	Hidden hand
Jews 'defiling' Al-Aqsa 'with their filthy feet'	Mahmoud Abbas	2015	Holy sites
Jews behind violence in southern Sudan	Sudan Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohammad Hussein	2007	Hidden hand
Jews bombed the Samarra al-Askari mosque	Al-Shabaka Al-Iraqiyya (Iraq)	2006	Holy sites
Jews burned an 1,800-year-old church in Mosul	Fajer Al-Saeed (Kuwait), on Twitter	2014	Holy sites
Jews buying thousands of acres of Turkey in a coordinated plan	Turkish MP Omer Karakas, in Parliament	2023	Secret land grabs
Jews control Western media and politicians	Issa Nakhleh, Palestine Arab Delegation at the UN	1967	Hidden hand
Jews destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas	Al-Shabaka Al-Iraqiyya (Iraq)	2006	Hidden hand
Jews planting fake antiquities at Petra to support a land claim	Rumor in Jordan	2016	Secret land grabs
Jews published the Danish Muhammad cartoons	Al-Shabaka Al-Iraqiyya (Iraq)	2006	Hidden hand
Jews secretly buying land in New Amman through Europeans and Israeli Arabs	Rumors in Jordan	2017+	Secret land grabs
Jews spread AIDS, SARS and mad cow disease	Uwe Friesecke (LaRouche EIR) on Lebanon's New TV	2006	Poison & disease
Jews supported Hitler; Hitler himself was Jewish	Issa Nakhleh at the UN	1972	Zionists & Nazis
Jews' 'social behavior' and usury caused the Holocaust	Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian National Council speech	2018	Zionists & Nazis
Jinn infiltration of Iran (repelled)	Naghipourfar	2023	Occult
Kestrel registered as an 'Israeli spy'	Firat University medical staff, Turkey	2013	Animals
Killed Nasrallah with jinn	Cleric Mostafa Karami, Iranian TV	2024	Occult
Killer dolphin hunting Qassam frogmen	Al-Quds daily	2015	Animals
Kissinger linked to 9/11	Tishreen (Syria)	2006	Hidden hand
Larry Silverstein 'pulled' WTC 7 for the insurance	9/11 truthers	2002	Hidden hand
Lioness escaped from a settlement, hidden by soldiers	IMEMC	2007	Animals
Lizards and chameleons sniffing out Iranian nukes	Hassan Firouzabadi, adviser to Khamenei	2018	Animals
Mad-cow-contaminated Cadbury chocolate smuggled into PA markets	PA Committee for Consumer Protection	1997	Poison & disease
Manipulating the Nile to blackmail African governments	Arab media	2011	Nature & weather
Messi refused to play Israel 'who kill innocent Palestinian children'	Social media	2018	Fake & twisted quotes
Morocco undergoing 'Zionization'; Israeli military base near Melilla	Algerian media, attributed to Amr Moussa	2025	Hidden hand
Mosquitoes as Israeli bioweapon / HIV vectors	Islamist websites (cited in The Australian)	2010	Animals
Mossad agent sent to incite chaos in Egypt's revolution	Egyptian state TV	2011	Hidden hand
Mossad and CIA infected Libyan children with HIV	Muammar Qadhafi	2001	Poison & disease
Mossad behind 9/11	Al-Manar and others	2001	Hidden hand
Mossad created ISIS	Iranian media (fake Snowden documents)	2014	Hidden hand
Mossad killed Rehavam Ze'evi and blamed Palestinians	Yasser Arafat	2001	Hidden hand
Mossad planned terror attacks inside Lebanon	Lebanese President Emile Lahoud	2006	Hidden hand
Mossad psychic units read minds in the 2006 war	Ali Akbar Raeefipour, Masaf Institute	—	Occult
Mossad secretly directs Al Jazeera	Imam Jalal al-Din al-Saghir, Al-Furat TV (Iraq)	2005	Hidden hand
Mossad smuggled liquor into Iran to corrupt its youth	Iranian police Col. Hossein Abdi, IRNA	2006	Sexual corruption
Mossad's motto is 'By way of deception thou shalt do war'	Victor Ostrovsky's book title; repeated as proof of Israeli deceit	1990	Fake & twisted quotes
Mysterious radiation to sicken Palestinians	Palestinian officials	—	Poison & disease
Naked women used as bait to capture young activists	Official PA newspaper	2001	Sexual corruption
Netanyahu's 'remember what Amalek did to you' proves genocidal intent	South Africa's ICJ application; widely repeated	2023	Fake & twisted quotes
No archaeological trace of Jewish presence in ancient Jerusalem, and Israeli archaeologists admit it	Activists, online; PA media	—	Erasure & theft
No Jewish Temple ever stood in Jerusalem	Yasser Arafat at Camp David	2000	Erasure & theft
October 7 named 'Al-Aqsa Flood'	Hamas	2023	Holy sites
Orchestrated the Darfur crisis to break up Sudan	Sudan President Omar al-Bashir, UN General Assembly	2006	Hidden hand
Organ theft from Gaza dead	Euro-Med Monitor; TRT World	2023	Blood & bodies
Orthodox Jews buying homes to take over Jackson and Toms River, NJ	Local opponents	—	Secret land grabs
Palestinians welcomed Jewish refugees, and the Jews repaid them by taking their land	Widespread; e.g. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (2019) on her ancestors providing 'safe haven' after the Holocaust	—	Erasure & theft
Parts of the Zionist movement are a 'pillar' of Islamophobia	David Miller ('Five Pillars of Islamophobia'); Bristol lecture slides (2019)	2015	Hidden hand
Pigeons with 'invisible strings' near Natanz	Etemad Melli newspaper, Iran	2008	Animals
Pine forests planted as 'colonial pyrotechnics' to turn fire into a weapon	Nieuwenhuis and Joronen, Environment and Planning E	2025	Green libels
'Pinkwashing': gay rights as cover for crimes	Sarah Schulman, NYT op-ed	2011	'-washing'
Plague rats released in Egypt in 1967	Dr. Bakr Al-Abadi, Jordan Prime TV	2018	Animals
Planning an artificial earthquake to topple Al-Aqsa	Mahmoud Abu Samra, letter to Arafat	—	Holy sites
Poison gas causing cancer; 80% of water contaminated	Suha Arafat, with Hillary Clinton on stage	1999	Poison & disease
Poison gas on West Bank schoolgirls	Arafat; Arab League; Iraq at the UN Security Council	1983	Poison & disease
Poison-resistant rats released to drive Arabs from the Old City	Wafa (PA news agency)	2008	Animals
Poisoned farm produce exported to Egypt	Egyptian press	1980s-90s	Poison & disease
Poisoned sweets and chocolates air-dropped on Gaza	Palestinian official	—	Poison & disease
Pre-state Jewish land purchases were theft and ethnic cleansing	Anti-Zionists generally	—	Secret land grabs
Premeditated master plan to expel Arabs in 1948	Ilan Pappe, 'The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine'	2006	Erasure & theft
'Purplewashing': women's rights and female soldiers as cover	Activists, academics	—	'-washing'
Rabbis called for poisoning Palestinian water	Mahmoud Abbas at the European Parliament	2016	Poison & disease
Red heifers imported to rebuild the Temple, provoking Oct 7	Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida; Egyptian news sites	2024	Holy sites
Reintroduced Persian fallow deer are Israel's 'proxies' and 'agents of normalization'	Irus Braverman, 'Wild Legalities' (PoLAR)	2021	Green libels
Religious parties plan to enslave, expel or exterminate Palestinians	Khaled Amayreh, Al-Ahram Weekly	2006	Exterminationist cruelty
'Right to maim': Israel deliberately cripples Palestinians to keep them 'debilitated'	Jasbir Puar, 'The Right to Maim' (Duke University Press)	2017	Exterminationist cruelty
'Scholasticide' / 'educide' in Gaza	UN experts; academic letters	2024	Erasure & theft
Secret weapons that vaporize bodies	Euro-Med Monitor; Gaza Health Ministry; Al Jazeera (2026)	2024	Blood & bodies
Secretly created the American Tea Party	Conspiracy publications	2011	Hidden hand
Set the 1969 Al-Aqsa fire	Arab governments and media	1969	Holy sites
Settler colonialism	Fayez Sayegh, PLO Research Center	1965	Erasure & theft
Settlers and soldiers spitting to spread COVID-19	PA spokesman Ibrahim Milhem; PA envoy Riyad Mansour to the UN	2020	Poison & disease
Sharks, GPS-guided, to wreck Sinai tourism	South Sinai Gov. Shousha; diver Mustafa Ismail on Egyptian TV	2010	Animals
Sharon: 'We, the Jewish people, control America'	Attributed to Israeli radio; spread by online sites	2001	Fake & twisted quotes
Sheep left to devour olive and fig trees	Ma'an	c. 2009	Animals
Snakes from a settlement biting villagers	Ma'an	c. 2010	Animals
'Sportswashing': Israeli teams and events as cover	BDS campaigns	—	'-washing'
Spreading drugs among Palestinian youth	PA security forces spokesman	—	Poison & disease
Spy dolphin with cameras off Gaza	Hamas al-Qassam Brigades; Iran's Fars News	2015	Animals
Squirrels carrying spy gear into Iran	Iranian police chief Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqadam / IRNA	2007	Animals
Stealing Gaza's sand on the way out	Yousef Abu Safiyya, to Al Jazeera	2005	Erasure & theft
Stealing Iran's clouds and snow	Brig. Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali, Iran Civil Defense	2018	Nature & weather
'Techwashing': innovation and medical breakthroughs as cover	Activists	—	'-washing'
The 2014 kidnapping of three Israeli teens was a pretext, perhaps invented	PLO Executive Committee (WAFA)	2014	Hidden hand
The Abraham Accords are a plot to create an 'Abrahamic religion' to dilute or replace Islam	Islamist clerics and scholar bodies; Hamas and Iranian media; regional commentators	2020-present	Holy sites
The Darfur protest movement is a plot to seize Sudan's oil and uranium	Muhammad Salahuddin, Arab News	2006	Hidden hand
The destruction of Palestine is the destruction of the Earth	Andreas Malm (Verso)	2024	Green libels
The flag's two blue stripes are the Nile and the Euphrates, Greater Israel's borders	Yasser Arafat; Arab and Iranian media; online	1980s-present	Secret land grabs
The Knesset bears the inscription 'Your borders, Israel, from the Nile to the Euphrates'	Arab media; Hamas-affiliated and online sources	—	Secret land grabs
The occupation causes Palestinian men to abuse their wives and children	UN reporting on violence against women in the territories; Palestinian NGOs; academics	2010s-present	Hidden hand
The Western Wall was never part of the Temple; it is solely Muslim property	PA Ministry of Information study (Al-Mutawakel Taha); earlier the Mufti (1929)	2010	Erasure & theft
Timed the Rafah raid to the Super Bowl, with Kraft's hostage ad as cover	Dave Zirin, The Nation	2024	Hidden hand
Tom and Jerry created by 'Jewish' Disney to rehabilitate the image of Jews as mice	Hasan Bolkhari, Iranian government adviser, Iranian TV	2006	Hidden hand
UK Jewish charities are 'aiding genocide in Gaza'	David Miller, Press TV	2024	Hidden hand
UN Hariri investigator Mehlis serves Zionism through his 'Zionist mother'	Al-Nazaha (Syria); Al-Gumhouriyya (Egypt)	2005	Hidden hand
Using demons and jinn to create COVID-19	Ali Khamenei	2020	Occult
Using jinn for military intelligence	Cleric Valiollah Naghipourfar on IRIB	2014	Occult
'Veganwashing': Israel promotes animal rights to hide colonial domination	Esther Alloun, Settler Colonial Studies (2018); Journal of Intercultural Studies (2019)	2018-2019	'-washing'
Vulture crossing into Lebanon as a spy	Residents of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon	2016	Animals
Vulture with Hebrew tag spying on Sudan	Sudanese press, reporting government capture	2012	Animals
Wheat research was a plan to 'remake Palestine' for colonization	Omar Tesdell, Geoforum	2017	Green libels
WikiLeaks is a Zionist operation	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Turkish politicians; Arab Voice (NJ)	2010	Hidden hand
Wild boars released to destroy Palestinian crops	IMEMC, Ma'an, Palestine Today	2007	Animals
Wolves set on Palestinian farmland	Palestine Today	2007	Animals
Won the Twelve-Day War with jinn, psychics and talismans	Iranian official Abdullah Ganji	2025	Occult
World Jewry 'declared war on Germany' in 1933	Issa Nakhleh at the UN; long-running neo-Nazi claim	1972	Zionists & Nazis
Ya'alon: Palestinians must be made to understand they are a defeated people	The Guardian, NYT, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe	2002	Fake & twisted quotes
Za'atar harvesting rules are 'green dispossession' and genocidal elimination	Irus Braverman, 'Green Gold' (LA+ journal)	2024	Green libels
Zionism is a 'cancerous project' threatening all of humanity	The New Arab (Al-Araby) editorial	2022	Exterminationist cruelty
Zionism is racism	UN General Assembly Res. 3379	1975	Exterminationist cruelty
Zionist agents attacked French synagogues to scare Jews into aliyah	Editor of official PA daily	2004	Hidden hand
Zionist company distributed cards insulting Islam in Iran	Iranian Foreign Minister (via Tishreen)	2006	Hidden hand
Zionist money and an MI5 alliance brought down Corbyn	David Miller	2020	Hidden hand
Zionist takeover of northern Cyprus through land purchases	Turkish and Turkish Cypriot media	2023	Secret land grabs
Zionist-Nazi 'secret relationship'; Holocaust toll inflated	Mahmoud Abbas, Moscow doctoral thesis ('The Other Side')	1982	Zionists & Nazis
Zionists arranged a Saudi Guantanamo detainee's death	Detainee's father, Arab News	2006	Hidden hand
Zionists collaborated with the Nazis (Haavara as proof)	Lenni Brenner, 'Zionism in the Age of the Dictators'	1983	Zionists & Nazis
Zionists sacrificed Europe's Jews to get a state (Kasztner as proof)	Anti-Zionist writers; Perdition (1987 play)	—	Zionists & Nazis

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