[lbo-talk] Saree Makdisi in the New York Times: "If Not Two States, Then One"

[Max Sawicky]

Among Jews everywhere, I believe Zionism was a fringe ideology until the
Holocaust. It hardly existed among Sephardim, and among Askenazim it was
less popular than socialism, bundism, and religious orthodoxy. The Jewish
labor movement in the U.S. may have had some sympathy for Zionism, but it
was operationally non-zionist, focused on justice in the U.S.

Happy to be corrected on this.

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:43 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> "Of course, as conflict between the two communities intensified, the
> inherent anti-Arab character of labor Zionism became more manifest, and
> when war came in 1948, the labor Zionist leadership of the new state under
> Ben Gurion was more than ready and willing to engage in ethnic cleansing.
> The process is what I described earlier as the "logic of settler
> colonialism"."
>
> Also important to note that the planned ethnic cleansing began in earnest
> after the Nov. 1947 U.N. partition resolution, as Pappe and others have
> clarified. It took civil conflict but not "war"  or "invasion" to justify
> it.
>
> David Green
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