‘The Paradigm is Shifting’: Anti-Zionist Jewish Congress Calls for a New Political Future

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JAZIC 2026, July 2026

‘The Paradigm is Shifting’: Anti-Zionist Jewish Congress Calls for a New Political Future

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Haim Bresheeth-Žabner is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London, and the author of An Army Like No Other: How the IDF Made A Nation, Verso 2020

Hadas Emma Kedar is a PhD student in Communication Studies at Hamburg University, blending her academic interests with a deep commitment to social justice.

Sue Pentel is a long-standing campaigner and member of Jews for Palestine Ireland.

Ronnie Barkan is an Israeli dissident, co-founder of Boycott from Within, past member of Anarchists Against the Wall and Palestine Action.

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