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Despite brilliant work on the question of Palestine from Marxists, often Arab or anti-Zionist Jewish, many on the left continue to have an inadequate understanding of Zionism. In this essay, I attempt to offer a Marxist examination of Zionism and some of its essential features: its völkisch character, its settler colonial character, and its relation to imperialism.
No Joint Struggle With Settler Colonialism New Politics , responds to Daniel Fischer’s “ . For Marx, the working class was the revolutionary class, the only class for whose self-liberation would mean the liberation of all. In Daphna Thier’s chapter “Not An Ally” she argues that the Israeli working class is an exception to this rule. The reason for this is that the class character reflects the settler colonial nature of the Zionist state. The very class formation of the Israeli working class came with the ethnic cleansing and forced appropriation of Palestinian land and replacing Pal...
Published date: 16 April 2021 12:10 UTC | Last update: 18 sec ago Book immerses readers in the rich tradition of Marxist analysis about Palestine, offering a powerful tool for those who want to organise resistance Palestinians wave their national flag in Ramallah in November 2018 (AFP) The past decade has been marked by a seemingly never-ending assault on the Palestinian people. Continuous Israeli settlement construction, massacres in besieged Gaza, the US embassy move to Jerusalem, and normalisation deals between Israel and several Arab states are j...
In Support of Joint Struggle More than six thousand Israeli Jews and Palestinians assemble in Tel Aviv, waving Palestinian flags and denouncing Israeli policy as apartheid. Thousands of young Ethiopian-Israelis march against police brutality, blocking highways, even throwing stones at police, and some chanting, “Free Palestine.” Mizrahi Jews petition Israel’s High Court to reject the Nation-State Law as anti-Arab and therefore both anti-Palestinian and anti-Mizrahi. An increase in draft-dodging leads Israel’s army to lament a “decreased motivation to serve” among the population. S...