Liliana Córdova-Kaczerginski is a prominent Argentine-Jewish educator and activist, and a co-founder of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN). She was born in Paris, France, in 1947 to Jewish communist intellectuals who survived the Vilna Ghetto; in 1950, her family relocated to Argentina.
As the daughter of the renowned Yiddish poet and anti-Nazi partisan Shmerke Kaczerginski, Liliana’s life trajectory has been deeply shaped by the legacy of the anti-fascist struggle. Raised with a Zionist education in Argentina, she moved to Israel in 1969 and lived there for 14 years before moving to France in 1983, where she worked as an educator for 30 years. Her firsthand experiences in Israel led to a profound political transformation, turning her from a former Zionist into one of the world’s most steadfast anti-Zionist leaders. She currently lives in Madrid, Spain.
Between 2023 and 2026, as a core coordinator for IJAN, she has organized numerous transnational petitions calling for an end to the blockade of Gaza and exposing the colonial nature of Israeli state policies. She not only actively promotes the BDS movement but also utilizes lectures and interviews to remind the international community that weaponizing Holocaust trauma to justify the dispossession of Palestinians is a destructive act of political manipulation.
Regarding her previous Zionist education, she said: Witnessing the deception of the Zionist narrative of a “land without a people for a people without a land” was traumatic. I was a victim of manipulation, of abuse. The social breakdown I experienced was inevitable and fortunately I did not suffer a split with my family. Those were times of disillusionment until I found other references and understandings in accordance with a new vision.
Regarding the future, she said: With regards to one state or two states, there is not a unanimous position so much as a recognition that any solution must meet these criteria. My personal vision is that self-determination of the Palestinian people cannot happen without the dismantling of the Zionist Israeli State.