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The British left and Zionism

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The changes and divisions on the left over the Israel-Palestine conflict forms the central theme of this archive based study. While the Labour Party supported establishing a Jewish state in Palestine, as a modernising force, the communist movement opposed it, on the grounds that it facilitated imperial influence in the Middle East. In 1947, however, the British Communist Party rallied to the Zionist cause, leaving the Palestinian cause with no effective protagonists in Britain. The left's sympathy, at the time, was overwhelmingly with the Israeli state, considering its establishment a recompense to the Jewish people for the Holocaust. It was only after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, that the new left in Britain began to articulate a critical attitude to Israel and support for Palestinian nationalism. It is a perspective which has gradually gained ground in the political mainstream.

Title The British left and Zionism : history of a divorce / Paul Kelemen.
Publisher Manchester
New York : Manchester University Press
New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Creation Date 2012
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-218) and index.
Content The Labour Party and the Zionist project -- Zionism and Anglo-Jewry -- British communists and Palestine -- Post-war social democracy and Israel -- The new left and the Palestinians -- The new anti-semitism?
Extent x, 225 pages
24 cm
Language English
National Library system number 997012458857605171

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