Zionism turned its back on the indigenous population that lived in Palestine from its early days – ever since the days of “the conquest of labor,” calling for Jews to work in agriculture and industry – the first Zionist dispossession. Long before the Arab riots of 1929 and the Holocaust, the movement sought to dispossess and expel the local population.

Racism in Israel is not a flaw in the system; it is the system itself. It is a colonial project that uses oppression, violence, persecution, roadblocks, house demolitions, forced displacement, expulsions, imprisonment, land theft, rape, child torture, and collective punishment to carry out the ethnic cleansing of non-Jewish populations.

On April 7, Iranian authorities reported that a series of US-Israeli airstrikes targeted the central Tehran neighborhood of Palestine, resulting in the complete destruction of the Rafi Nia Jewish Synagogue.Homayoun Sameh Najafabadi, representative of the Jewish community in Iran’s parliament, condemned the attack, saying, “During our religious holidays, the Israeli entity targeted us and showed no mercy, even to Jews in Iran.”“The synagogue was completely destroyed, leaving Torah scrolls under the rubble, an act that pains Jews around the world,” he explained, adding that “Israel’s” aggression spares neither Muslims nor other religious communities, and expressed hope for the triumph of the Islamic Republic and lasting peace globally.