Direct Action (AFB) Vol 3 #06 June 1948

We hold no brief for Zionism or for the Jewish State. We see no solution to the problem of the Jewish people in the creation of a new and virulent nationalism; we are just as much opposed to a Jewish politician as we are to any other politician.

But we recognise the right of the Jewish people to live in peace. We have nothing but admiration for the achievements of the collectivist pioneers in Palestine. Those of us who have had the chance of seeing the collective settlements at first hand know that we have seen social living of an advanced kind.

For "collective settlement" read capitalist accumulation; "social living", social-democracy. There is no capitalist accumulation without the capitalist—in this case "Jewish"—state.

In this situation we should be hypocrites if, as Anarchists, we did not affirm our sympathy with the workers on the Jewish collective settlements, refugees from pogrom and massacre, who are now involved in a war that was not of their seeking.

Better to be hypocrites, then, than a party to murder and theft.