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17 - Socialism, Zionism, and Settler Colonialism in Israel/Palestine

from Southern Trajectories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Joel Beinin
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Summary

A movement of Jews from the Russian Empire known as the first ‘aliyah (1882–1903) established the first Zionist settlements in Palestine, then an imprecisely delimited region within the Ottoman province of Syria.1 With the second ‘aliyah (1904–14), socialist or labour Zionism began its ascent to hegemony over the Zionist movement and subsequently the State of Israel. Zionism sought to redefine Jews as a national, not a religious, community. While it deployed religious symbols and associations, it sought to transform traditional longing for Zion (Jerusalem) into a secular project. It was also a settler-colonial project. Until the Second World War, Zionists commonly referred to their ‘colonization’ of Palestine with no pejorative implications.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 389 - 413
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Beinin, Joel, Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab–Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948–1965 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).Google Scholar
Beinin, Joel, et al. (eds.), Ha-smol ha-‘atzma’i be-yisra’el, 1967–1993. Asufa le-zichro shel No’am Kaminer [The Independent Left in Israel, 1967–1993: Essays in Memory of Noam Kaminer] (Tel Aviv: November Books, 2019) (in Hebrew).Google Scholar
Budeiri, Musa, The Palestine Communist Party, 1919–1948: Arab and Jew in the Struggle for Internationalism (London: Ithaca Press, 1979).Google Scholar
Lockman, Zachary, Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906–1948 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).Google Scholar
Shafir, Gershon, Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, 1882–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).Google Scholar

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