Posts Tagged ‘Left Poale Zion’
Why the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is neither anti-Zionist nor pro-Palestinian
The SWP Decision to Welcome Apartheid Zionist Groups to its ‘anti-racist’ march in Glasgow last weekend proves that the SWP’s support for the Palestinians is hot air UPDATE On 16 February, in response to an email on behalf of Brighton and Hove Trades Council, Scottish SUTR i.e. the SWP, reassured me that: SUTR Scotland … has…
Read MoreZionism – 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 75th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Passed Unnoticed – It is not on the Zionist Calendar
Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Jews captured during the Warsaw ghetto being marched to a collecting point for deportation. (Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park) Last week was the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. You would have been forgiven for having missed it. The anniversary of…
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