Summary
The call, developed by the early Jewish colonists in Palestine at the beginning of the 20th century, to employ only Jews and to buy only from Jews — ‘Hebrew Labor’ in Shir Hever’s text and ‘Hebrew Labour’ in his note 4 — adopted by the mainstream of the colonist community to entrench Jewish self-sufficiency and hegemony, and still an active movement at the time of his writing (Exploitation of Palestinian Labour in Contemporary Zionist Colonialism, PDF p.4-5, 9 / printed p.127-128, 132).
Details
- The internal Zionist tension it names — a tiered society seeking Palestinian labor to increase Jewish business profit, against a ‘pure’ Jewish economic sphere in which the working class is also predominantly Jewish — is far from being resolved (PDF p.4).
- Recent years saw a parallel increase in official statements about the need to ‘close gaps’ and in the ‘Hebrew Labor’ movement, with attempts to intimidate employers who employ Palestinians (PDF p.5).
- Note 4 exemplifies the movement by various ‘Hebrew Labour’ websites and right-wing activists who map businesses who employ Palestinians and call for their boycott (PDF p.9).
Related pages
Exploitation of Palestinian Labour in Contemporary Zionist Colonialism, Conquest of Labour, Jewish Labour Only, Exploitation and Dispossession