Posts Tagged ‘Matzpen’
DAVID EHRENFELD – The Red Diamond Merchant – The Strange Case of the Socialist Who Was Israel’s Biggest Diamond Merchant
Watch Eran Torbiner’s Film About the Man who Helped Fund the anti-Zionist Left and Stood in the Forefront of the Fight for the Rights of Israeli Palestinians It’s not often that a rich capitalist or member of the ruling class crosses class lines to support the left. Of course there are exceptions such as Friedrich…
Read MoreIsrael’s excuse for attacking Gaza, ‘Self Defence’, is no different from Hitler’s Excuse for Invading Poland – in both cases it was unprovoked
The real reason for the attack on Gaza lies not in immediate events but in the logic of Zionism – ethnic cleansing Last Monday 1st August Israeli soldiers arrested Bassam al-Saadi, a prominent figure in Islamic Jihad in Jenin refugee camp. Failing to provoke a response Israel decided anyway to restrict traffic around Israeli communities adjacent to the Gaza-Israel…
Read MoreHelen Aksentijevic interviews veteran anti-Zionist Moshe Machover, one of the founders of Matzpen, the Socialist Organisation in Israel
Machover looks back on life since his childhood under the Palestine Mandate and describes both his own family and political background There are not many people who can justly be described as legends in their own lifetime but Moshe Machover is one such person. An indefatigable optimist he was the ‘one who got away’. Targeted…
Read MoreThe Bloody Betrayal of the Kurds by Trump and the United States is Nothing New
The Bloody Betrayal of the Kurds by Trump and the United States is Nothing New Background to the Kurdish Struggle and the American Betrayal in 1963 The betrayal of the Kurds of Syria by Donald Trump and the United States is only the latest such betrayal. After having provided the foot soldiers in the fight…
Read MoreDe-colonising the mind – a former Zionist fighter’s journey to the other side of the road
Tikva-Honig Parnass – an Israeli anti-Zionist legend in her own lifetime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKTPf2qgtQY Tikva Honig-Parnass’ Jewish militia played its part in depopulating and destroying Palestinian towns and villages in the 1940s [William Parry/Al Jazeera] I feel in awe writing this appreciation of one of the most dedicated Jewish anti-Zionists to have remained in Israel. Tikva Honig-Parnass was…
Read MoreHaim Hanegbi – Founder of Matzpen – An Appreciation
Obituary in today’s Ha’aretz from Matzpen Hebrew translation of Ha’aretz advert Haim Hanegbi, a founder of the Israeli Socialist Organisation (Matzpen) died on March 2nd 2018. Below is the paid advert and the translations thereof in Ha’aretz newspaper. Also I copy below an obituary of Haim by Ahmad Jaradat of the Alternative Information Centre and…
Read MoreIs there a Hebrew nation in Israel and does it have the right to self-determination?
The overthrow of Zionism is incompatible with a Hebrew nation My article in this week’s Weekly Worker, is a reply to the article Palestine and Hebrew self-determination by veteran Israeli socialist and anti-Zionist, the founder of Matzpen, Moshe Machover. It is a debate about something that people rarely debate any more in the Palestine solidarity movement, strategy. We…
Read MoreShlomo Sand – Stops being that which he denies exists!
From Debunking to Denying History Two days ago I was sent a review from Ha’aretz (see below) on Shlomo Sand’s new book ‘How I stopped being a Jew’. Shlomo Sands wrote a best selling book The Myth of the Jewish Nation. This one is a dogmatic assertion (if Ha’aretz and others are to be believed – I haven’t…
Read MoreAkiva Orr, co-founder of Matzpen – the Socialist Organisation in Israel passes away
From working class militant to anti-Zionist writer I only met Akiva Orr once, when he spoke at Sussex University in the 1980’s, to a sparsely attended meeting of the Palestine society on campus. His book on Israel – appropriately titled ‘The UnJewish State’ had just been published. Akiva was an entertaining if not eccentric speaker…
Read MoreThe Colonial Essence of Zionism
This is a good and comprehensive analysis of Zionism and its colonial base. Well worth reading. Tony Greenstein The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict and the Zionist Solution Yisrael Puterman(i) 05 Jan 2013 Chaim Weizmann, President of the Zionist Organisation and fellow Zionists Arthur J Balfour whose Declaration set the seal on the sponsorship of Zionism by British…
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