Not all of the demonstrators see themselves as Zionists.

Yehuda Hirsch told MEE that the Israeli state “thinks we have become Israelis, that we have already undergone Israelisation, that we are part of their sympathy, of the war and of their values.” But, Hirsch said, “we are not”.

“We are Jews as Jews. We have no connection to the State of Israel, and we don’t want to enlist in any way, just as an Arab doesn’t enlist, a Jew doesn’t enlist. Anyone who enlists is a Zionist."