Testimonies
First-person accounts from Israelis who left the country, broke with Zionism, or both.
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Interviews in other media
While we record our first testimonies, here are interviews and first-person accounts published by other media. Each one links to the original source.
- Haim BresheethThe Real News Network · 2025A veteran of 1967 on the war that changed his life and why he became an anti-Zionist.Watch · In English
- Ofer CassifJacobin · 2025The Knesset’s only openly anti-Zionist member on staying and speaking out.Read · In English
- Itamar GreenbergAmnesty International · 2025An ultra-Orthodox teenager on refusing the army and 197 days in prison.Read · In English
- Yonatan ShapiraJURIST · 2024From pilot to refuser: military culture, the Pilots’ Letter and leaving Israel.Read · In English
- Tal Mitnick+972 Magazine · 2023The first refuser jailed over the Gaza war explains his decision.Read · In English
- Avigail AbarbanelMondoweiss · 2022A first-person account of leaving Israel and, later, leaving Zionism.Read · In English
- Avraham BurgThe Last Europeans · 2021A former Knesset Speaker on identity, nationality and life beyond Zionism.Read · In English
- Miko PeledThe Real News Network · 2016A general’s son on growing up inside Zionism and how he came to reject it.Watch · In English
- Nurit Peled-ElhananGroundviews · 2013How Israeli schoolbooks shape children’s view of Palestinians.Read · In English
- Ilan PappéTimes Higher Education · 2007On the pressure that pushed him out of the University of Haifa and out of Israel.Read · In English
- Eitan Bronstein AparicioAJ+Why the founder of Zochrot and his partner chose to raise their child outside Israel.Watch · In English