Posts Tagged ‘Kibbutzim’
Zionism – an Antidote to Socialism (von Plehve – Czarist Interior Minister)
Despite its Pretensions Socialist Zionism was simply an an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable – Colonisation and Socialism On Sunday at 5 pm, I will be giving a talk on my book Zionism During the Holocaust to the Communist Party of Great Britain and I intend to focus in particular on the reactionary and counter-revolutionary role of…
Read MoreThe historic contradictions of the Zionist Left are being played out in the death throes of Meretz
You can no more be a Zionist and a Socialist than you can be a Carnivore and a Vegan Below is an article from Gideon Levy. Gideon is one of the few, lonely voices of sanity in an Israel that has veered to the lunatic far-right. In his article Levy describes the terminal decline of…
Read MoreThe New Statesman & the Perpetuation of the Myth of Labour ‘anti-Semitism’
Carrying on a tradition – The New Statesman, Zionism and Imperialism New Statesman article that complains about anti-Semitism being used as a political football and then does exactly that! Kingsley Martin – NS’s longest serving editor refused to print Orwell’s dispatches from Spain because they criticised the Stalinist attacks on the Anarchists and POUM…
Read MoreKibbutz Hatzerim Bars Arabs from its Canteen
The Racist Face of the ‘Socialist’ Kibbutz In my youth the Kibbutzim, the collective Zionist colonies, were held up as an example of the ‘socialist’ face of Zionism. Of course we weren’t told that they barred Arabs or that they exploited cheap Arab and Oriental Jewish labour in their factories or that collectively colonising the…
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