Ofer Cassif (Jewish anti-Zionist MK for Hadash; only Jewish member of Israel's Arab-majority bloc) — Tribune interview, Nov 2024: "I had to be an anti-Zionist and actively oppose the ideology and practice of Zionism, given my basic socialist beliefs," indicting Israel for "genocide, ethnic cleansing… occupation" and "fascism growing stronger." The radical anti-Zionist Jewish-left pole.

I decided that my way should be the socialist, humanist one rather than the Zionist one, that it wasn't enough not to be a Zionist, but that I had to be an anti-Zionist and actively oppose the ideology and practice of Zionism, given my basic socialist beliefs.

This is the situation in Israel — alongside genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, atrocities, occupation, and persecution of Palestinians in their territories, there's also fascism growing stronger in Israel by legislation and by the persecution of citizens, arresting people, beating people, etc.

[Source is English (Tribune Magazine interview by Marcus Barnett, 28 November 2024; Cassif is English-fluent and the interview is in English); tier-2, confirmed verbatim against the fetched page; curly apostrophes normalized to ASCII, em-dash preserved.] Declared positions of Ofer Cassif — a secular Jewish-Israeli Marxist, a Knesset member for Hadash (the Jewish-Arab communist front, within the Hadash–Ta'al list), and the only Jewish lawmaker in Israel's predominantly-Arab political bloc. The most radical ANTI-ZIONIST voice in the Israeli parliament, he was twice targeted for expulsion from the Knesset in 2024 — surviving the votes — for endorsing South Africa's ICJ genocide case against Israel and for his condemnations of the Gaza war. He frames his politics as a choice of socialism and humanism over Zionism: "I had to be an anti-Zionist and actively oppose the ideology and practice of Zionism, given my basic socialist beliefs," and indicts the Israeli state for "genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, atrocities, occupation, and persecution of Palestinians" alongside "fascism growing stronger in Israel." This is the ISRAELI RADICAL / ANTI-ZIONIST JEWISH-LEFT pole — Jewish-Arab partnership and full equality, an end to the occupation and to Zionism-as-state-ideology, socialism, and solidarity with the Palestinian struggle — the sharpest CONTESTED-CELL OPPOSITE of Orit Strock's religious-Zionist settler maximalism, and to the left even of Ehud Olmert's liberal-Zionist peace camp (and of Ahmad Tibi's civic-equality framing, which stops short of explicit anti-Zionism). [Axes: Israel-Palestine / Zionism (anti-Zionism; end the occupation; Jewish-Arab equality; backing the ICJ genocide case), regime / democracy (warning of Israeli "fascism"; defense of dissent against expulsion/silencing), economy (Marxist / socialist), identity (a binational, civic Jewish-Arab partnership against ethnonationalism).]