“Zionism as an ideology is a threat to humanity as a whole”: Dr Azzam Tamimi speaks at Gaza Tribunal

I was uh born seven years after the

Nakba and the testimonies we heard

yesterday and we've been hearing similar

testimonies for the past 20 months keep

reminding me of

uh the bedtime stories that my mother

kept telling me and my

siblings about how she and her family,

entire family

uh were evicted from Berisabah where she

was born and where she was raised up to

the age of 16 and had to leave like

hundreds of thousands of other

Palestinians. What happened what is

happening today in Gaza is happening in

a modern technological warfare. But the

principle is one and the same. It

happened to my mother before. It

happened to so many Palestinians in

1948.

And since then it continued to happen

throughout this

occupation when a certain group of

people believed that God gave them a

license to take other people's lands to

kill them to do whatever it takes to

remove them as an

obstacle. How can you deal with such a

community? How can you deal with such a

mentality? It's impossible. you cannot

deal with them because they believe they

have a divine license. And just recently

the BBC showed a a brilliant documentary

about the settler the settler movement

in the West Bank. And one of the uh

settlers, a lady I remembered from more

than 20 years ago when I saw her first

interview ever as far as I'm concerned

on the BBC as well when she was asked,

"How do you justify coming from Europe

and doing this to the Palestinians?" And

she said, "Had God not told me to do so,

I would have been a

criminal." Blaming it on

God. What sort of God is

this? And that's why, as Dr. Sammy

explained, Zionism is not just a threat

to the Palestinians. Zionism as an

ideology is a threat to humanity as a

whole. Actually, Zionism has been the

reincarnation of Nazism.

Israel is a reincarnation of the third

ra and the world is beginning to

recognize this. The young students in

America, in Europe, and elsewhere in the

world are now realizing that their

parents and their grandparents who

supported or sympathized with Zionism

for so many years were sinners. They

were wrong because you cannot do this

anymore. Even Jewish students are now

saying not in our