May 10, 2021 at 7:37 pm One of the perennial frustrations on the pro-Palestine left is the issue of allegedly socialist or liberal politicians who seem to have a blind spot when it comes to issue of Palestine. In other words, they are Progressives Except for Palestine, or PEPs. Things are not as bad as they once were. The influence of "Labour Zionism" on the Western left is thankfully in a rather abject historic decline, partly because of the terminal decline of the so-called Zionist left within Israel itself. The Israeli Labour Party won a mere seven seats in the latest Knesset election, only one more than the ultra-right-wing Religious Zionism faction which is run by openly racist Kahanist fanatics.