Mechanisms of ExpulsionBy Salman Abu Sitta, Journal of Palestine Refugee Studies Vol 1/2 Autumn 2011 “This is an example of orientalism that people in the West would not believe what the Palestinians said. It is only believed when it comes from the West or an Israeli source. The people in Tantura were taken to a…
Continue Reading The Zionist massacres and violent destruction of much of Palestine in 1948
By Dominique Vidal in Le Monde Diplomatique December 1997 “…250 killed, some of whom were unarmed prisoners. This was followed by a forced evacuation characterised by summary executions and looting…Similar scenarios were enacted, as Morris shows, in central Galilee, Upper Galilee and the northern Negev, as well as in the post-war expulsion of the Palestinians…
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“Until 1945, most Jews rejected the Zionist analysis – which was that anti-semitism was a permanent feature of non-Jewish societies, could not be challenged, and the only solution was a separate Jewish homeland…Most Jews thought the “back to the Holy Land” types were irrelevant eccentrics – something like Back to Africa preachers among diaspora black…
Continue Reading Notes on Zionism, anti-semitism and Jewishness By Mike Marquesee
Zionist Objectives Ralph Schoenman (from The Hidden History of Zionism Chapter 2)The Zionist movement would seek alternative imperial sponsors for this bloody enterprise; among them the Ottoman Empire, Imperial Germany, the British Raj, French colonialism and Czarist Russia. Zionist plans for the Palestinian people anticipated the Ottoman solution for the Armenians, who would be slaughtered…
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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