Jimmy and Israeli-American anti-Zionist activist Miko Peled explore the deeply racist mentality of Israeli society, with Peled explaining that polls of Israelis show nearly 100% support for the genocide in Gaza, and any dissent is crushed. He shares the story of his own father, a decorated Israeli general who, after the 1967 war, dared to suggest that Palestinians deserved a state—and was immediately ostracized, his friends disappearing, his career destroyed, reduced to a “persona non grata” unable even to get a meeting with a congressional staffer in Washington.
Peled describes a society that treats Palestinian life as disposable, where massacres are met with a shrug—”what are you going to do?”—and where the only acceptable dissent is that Israel isn’t killing enough. He concludes that Zionism is not a Jewish movement but a white supremacist settler-colonial project, and that the social price for questioning it is total exclusion.