The crisis in Israel: danger of fascism? - Avishai Ehrlich
Article describing the roots of the internal crisis in Israel which led, more than a year later, in May 1977, to the replacement of the Labour government by the right-wing Likud/Religious Party Coalition led by Menachem Begin. Also contains interesting information about the Israeli Communist Party and labour Zionism.
Book review: Ethnic relations in Israel - Nira Yuval-Davis
Book review by Nira Yuval-Davis of 'Ethnic relations in Israel'.
Oriental Jews in Israel; collective schizophrenia - A. Hoder
'Who are the Oriental Jews, how do they perceive themselves, the Ashkenazi Jews, the Arabs and the Palestinians?' There are no simple answers – I can only sketch some impressions.
Zionism and its Oriental subjects: the Oriental Jews in Zionism's dialectical contradictions - Raphael Shapiro
Article looking at the position of 'Oriental Jews' (i.e. those from other countries in the Middle-East) within Israel and the zionist project historically.
Khamsin #05: Oriental Jewry
Issue of Khamsin from 1978 primarily about the Oriental Jewry.
Khamsin: Journal of revolutionary socialists of the Middle-East
Archive of revolutionary socialist journal, Khamsin, which was published from 1978 to 1987. While we might disagree with some of the positions taken, particularly those to do with national liberation, many articles contain interesting information about working class struggle, which we reproduce for reference.
Impossible reconciliation: The contradictions of labor Zionism
Submitted by Chilli Sauce on Nov 12 2012 16:49
A piece written as a university dissertation. I don't claim it's reliably academic material, but I do hope it offers a libertarian exploration of the early Zionism movement: secular and socialist rhetoric, but inevitably compromised by the national project integral to all forms of Zionism, despite any professed radicalism.
I haven't included the footnotes, so PM me if you want to see them.
Workers' control
Submitted by wojtek on Aug 10 2012 13:15
A pamphlet by the Syndicalist Workers' Federation on the meaning of workers' control, its incompatability with the state and its history (1959).
Soapy is on hunger strike
Submitted by Soapy on Aug 9 2012 19:49
As of yesterday members of Students for Justice in Palestine began a hunger strike in solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners. The following is a statement we released explaining our actions.
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