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Pars Today - If you want to understand why Israel has no future, just look at the results of the Tel Aviv University survey. Only 3.2% of Israelis oppose genocide.

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Professor Haim Bresheeth-Žabner, a Jewish Israeli academic, comes from a family of Holocaust survivors. He is a writer, film researcher, filmmaker, and a former Israeli army soldier.

In recent decades, Bresheeth-Žabner has become a vocal critic of Israel's behavior towards Palestinians.

In his opinion, Israel, after October 7th, has turned from fascism, in relation to Palestinian rights, into something similar to Nazism. A Nazism that is sometimes overt and sometimes covert.

Here, we present his answers to Salwa Amor's questions from The New Arab magazine, which have been selected and edited by Pars Today.

Are Israeli protests a positive indication that support for the genocide is diminishing within Israeli society?

I believe the protests in Israel are not truly about Palestine. Both sides of this debate seem to agree on genocide. They're advocating for Jewish rights, not Palestinian rights.

Israel's current wave of protests is about shifting from one genocidal camp to another. The new camp is even more racist towards Palestinians. Israel is a democracy for Jews but not for Palestinians.

Only 3.2% of Israeli Jews believe their state uses too much force in Gaza, while 43% perceive the force as too little. 87.4% justify casualties on the Palestinian side.

If you wish to understand why Israel has no future, just look at the results of this survey [conducted by Tel Aviv University]. 

The figure to highlight is 3.2%. That represents the true size of the opposition to the genocide. Israeli society is incapable of rational thinking, they have switched to a mode of behaviour akin to full genocide.

Could hope be found in the implementation of a Truth and Reconciliation process like that in South Africa?

I never believed in talking to Zionists. I believe in BDS, (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions).

Israel itself is a Zionist organisation. The organisation is racist at its core and believes in ethnic cleansing. It has deteriorated into a state of genocide. You can't talk to the Zionists in the same way you could not talk to Hitler.

Israel has now transitioned from being officially fascist to a Nazi society.

Over 90% of Israelis support this genocide. That should never be forgotten.

If reconciliation is not an option in your view, what then do you see as the path forward?

The path forward is to dismantle Zionism: to oppose Zionism in every possible way. I doubt peace is achievable after the events of the last seven months. There can be no reconciliation with Zionism, just as there can be no reconciliation with colonialism or Nazism.

Zionism is inherently inhumane and fascist.

I believe Israelis and Zionists need a process akin to denazification, similar to what the Nazis underwent. Until then, reconciliation is not possible.

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Key phrases: What is Israel like, Israeli opinions, How did Israel come into existence, Israel's war in Gaza