Naomi Klein is a Canadian Jewish journalist and author who is best known for her critiques of corporate globalization. Unsurprisingly, anti-Zionism features in her world view and has managed to find its way into the pages of ‘Comment is Free’.

Below is a selection of statements made by Naomi Klein “in her own words”:

“If we want to see the future of where the Likud Doctrine leads, we need only follow the guru home, to Israel — a country paralyzed by fear, embracing pariah policies of extrajudicial assassination and illegal settlement, and in furious denial about the brutality it commits daily. It is a nation surrounded by enemies and desperate for friends, a category it narrowly defines as those who ask no questions, while generously offering the same moral amnesty in return. That glimpse at our collective future is the only lesson the world needs to learn from Ariel Sharon.” The Likud Doctrine September 10, 2004

“It was Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who was the first to adopt Bush’s franchise, parroting the White House’s pledges to “pull up these wild plants by the root, smash their infrastructure” as he sent bulldozers into the occupied territories to uproot olive trees and tanks to raze civilian homes. Soon enough, Sharon’s “infrastructure of terror” included human rights observers who were bearing witness to the attacks, as well as aid workers and journalists.” September 11’s Legacy: War as Franchise August 26, 2003

“For Sharon, Jewish fear is a guarantee that his power will go unchecked, granting him the impunity needed to do the unthinkable: send troops into the Palestinian Authority’s education ministry to steal and destroy records; bury children alive in their homes; block ambulances from getting to the dying.” Sharon, LePen and antisemitism April 24, 2002

Below is a selection of statements made by Naomi Klein on the pages of ‘Comment is Free’ “in her own words”:

“It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa. In July 2005 a huge coalition of Palestinian groups laid out plans to do just that. They called on “people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era”. The campaign Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions was born.” Enough its time for a boycott January 10, 2009

“Since Israel began its policy of sealing off the occupied territories with checkpoints and walls, human rights activists have often compared Gaza and the West Bank to open-air prisons. But in researching the explosion of Israel’s homeland security sector, a topic explored in greater detail in my forthcoming book, it strikes me that they are something else too: laboratories where the terrifying tools of our security states are being field-tested. Palestinians – whether living in the West Bank or what the Israeli politicians are already calling Hamastan – are no longer just targets. They are guinea pigs.” How war was turned into a brand June 16, 2007