Il Manifesto 4 March 2002 1. Anti-semitism is a racist ideology directed against the Jews. It has old roots. In his classic work, The Jewish Question, A Marxist Interpretation, that was published posthumously in France in 1946, the Belgian Marxist, Abram Leon, (active in the resistance during the Second World War, he was captured…
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Erasures by Gabriel PiterbergNew Left Review 10, July-August 2001How the founding myths of Israel dictated conceptual removal of Palestinians, during and after physical removal. The invention of ‘retroactive transfer’ and ‘present absentees’ as the glacial euphemisms of ethnic cleansing. Three foundational myths underlie Israeli culture to this day. These are the ‘negation of exile’ (shelilat…
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Israel subjecting Palestinian children to ‘spiral of injustice’Guardian26 June 2012 The report…points out that under international law, no state is entitled to discriminate in the exercise of justice on the basis of race or nationality. It says, however, that “there are major differentials between the law governing the treatment of Palestinian children and the law…
Book review: fresh thought on Israeli colonialism offered by Global PalestineJimmy Johnson in Electronic Intifada 2 May 2012 Recent years have seen an increasing interest from Palestinians, human rights activists and academics in discussing Zionism as a form of settler colonialism, not just as apartheid and military occupation.Settler colonialism — or the relationship between the…
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Israeli cricket match cancelledBBC 09 August 2006An Israeli cricket team match which was due to take place under armed guard at RAF Lossiemouth has been cancelled. A spokesman for the organisers, the European Cricket Council, insisted the move was not due to any threatened demonstration. It is understood that Israel’s opponents Greece had suffered travel problems…
Rediscovering Abram Leon By John RoseAbstractAbram Leon (1918-1944), the Jewish revolutionary socialist who perished in Auschwitz, is best known for his manuscript, The Jewish Question, written during the Second World War and published posthumously. Leon analysed the Jewish trading role in medieval Europe. He developed Karl Marx’s argument that it is economics rather than religion…
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