Noa Avishag Schnall, a Jewish anti-Zionist, explained in a maddening video why she renounced her Israeli citizenship and is proud to be a Jewish anti-Zionist.

Schnall is an activist journalist who participated in two flotillas attempting to breach the naval blockade on Gaza and who claimed to have been tortured while detained in an Israeli prison.

Critics say her smug moral superiority is only matched by her ignorance.

For example, in her video, she explains that her grandparents “were born in Yemen, and then my mother was born in occupied Palestine in Tiberias.”

Hen Mazzig, an advocate for Israel, Zionism, and the Jewish people, posted this question alongside her video: “Hey, sorry, just a little confused, why didn’t your mother’s family stay in Yemen? You seem very upset that she was born in ‘Occupied Palestine,’ so why didn’t her parents just stay in Yemen and have her there? Have you asked them?”

The answer Schnall is missing is this:

The millennia-old community of Jews in Yemen once numbered around 50,000, but that number dwindled as persecution drove Jews to migrate beginning in the 19th century. A mass exodus occurred following Israel’s War for Independence, when deadly riots and massacres resulted in a rescue by the Israeli government called Operation Magic Carpet, in which nearly 50,000 Yemeni Jews were airlifted out of Yemen and brought to Israel.

A handful of Jews remained, but in the 2010s they too left for Israel when persecution by the Houthis intensified. Today, it is estimated that only a handful of elderly Jews remain in Yemen.

Schnall’s mother was born in Israel because Israel saved her grandparents’ lives by bringing them out of Yemen.

In her video statement, Schnall referred to Israel as “the European colony known as Israel,” saying that “I have an American passport, and I renounced my passport from the European colony known as Israel. And I’m here speaking about my participation in two flotillas and Direct Action for Anti-Zionism in the future.”

“I am an anti-Zionist Jew, loud and proud, and have been for a while,” she declared.

Critics call this type of behavior among anti-Zionist Jews “tokenization,” in which anti-Zionist antisemites use token Jews to prop up their hateful ideology.