Breno Altman Calls for Law Recognizing Zionism as Racism

Hello, my name is Breno Altman and I have an important topic to discuss with you.

I support introducing in the National Congress a bill that recognizes Zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination.

There is a historical precedent. On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 3379, which defined Zionism in this way.

This position stood until December 16, 1991, when it was dropped under pressure from the United States, the masters of the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Israel's defenders keep repeating that Zionism is merely the defense of the Jewish people's self- determination.

That is a lie. Zionism was born as a project to build a colonial state under Jewish ethnic supremacy in a land mostly occupied for many centuries by another people.

Just look at its legal framework. The 1950 Law of Return, for example, guarantees every Jew on the planet the right to immigrate and become an Israeli citizen, while around 750,000 Palestinians expelled in 1948 and their millions of descendants remain barred from returning.

A law passed by Parliament in 2018 defined Israel as a Jewish state, in which only Jews have the right to self- determination, relegating Palestinians and other minorities to a subordinate status.

Not to mention the millions who live without any rights under the boot of genocide in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

This is called apartheid, as Amnesty International rightly defined it.

And what does this have to do with us? The Brazilian Constitution treats racism as a crime.

Law 7716 of 1989 punishes with up to five years in prison anyone who disseminates Nazi ideas.

It is not consistent to prohibit praise of Nazism and other racist ideologies while tolerating Zionist propaganda.

I also want to make it very clear that fighting Zionism has nothing to do with hostility toward Jews.

Besides, banning Nazism did not represent discrimination against Germans.

It is essential to distinguish Judaism from Zionism.

Judaism represents an ethnic, religious, and cultural tradition.

Zionism is a political ideology. Antisemitism, hatred of Jews, must be fought without compromise, but so must Zionism, a doctrine based on colonialism and racial supremacy.

I am Jewish and anti-Zionist, and I consider it unacceptable the normalization of Zionism, especially when disguised as a fight against antisemitism.

Thank you very much for your attention.