A pamphlet titled “How To Talk To Zionists” that encourages activists to “call out teachers, lecturers or co-workers” who are pro-Israel and “campaign for them to be fired” has been posted on the Brixton Palestine Solidarity Campaign group’s Instagram page.
The inflammatory “step by step guide” includes that claim “Zionists Need To Be Called Out” and repeats the Enough Is Enough mantra, previously used to great effect by Jewish campaigners protesting against antisemitism in Labour.
The on-line material also features the provocative instruction; “Is Your co-worker a Zionist? Your teacher/lecturer a Zionist? Campaign for them to be fired. Zionism justifies the genocide of Palestinians. Do not tolerate it. Enough Is Enough.”
In response, the Jewish Leadership Council’s Claudia Mendoza tweeted that the PSC were a “hate group.”
In a 10 page guide, activists are warned not to engage in conversation with supporters of Zionism who it suggests are a “racist minority.”
“Talking to Zionists is a waste of time,” it adds. “Instead focus on informing those who know little or nothing.”
The following page advises “Zionists are extremists – do not engage in conversation with extremists.”
It is then suggested “no logical, sane or moral person is a Zionist”. Elsewhere it is claimed “Zionists have no valid arguments” and calls for activists to campaign to have their Israeli ambassadors expelled.
Actor and comedian Marlon Solomon was among those to condemn the PSC pamphlet, tweeting:”At the last count, 93% of British Jews say Israel is part of their identity – within which there is a spectrum of opinion on Israel.
“But that is the rough percentage of British Jews who would be impacted by a campaign to root out, humiliate and punish unspecified ‘Zionists.’”
He added:”Without question, if this was an actual thing people tried to do, it would lead very quickly to pogroms on British soil.”
Jewish News has contacted the PSC for comment.