Summary
The figure that, in Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics, ideologically sustained the Conquest of Labour: the incoming Zionist remade through Jewish-only labour, clearing Natives from the land and boycotting Native labour and produce, in an iconography bearing the marks of the extreme nationalisms emerging in Europe (Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics, PDF p.20 / printed p.152).
Details
- The ideal of the New Jew required incoming Zionists to remake themselves through the Conquest of Labour, a repudiation of dependency on others that progressively deprived those others of their means of subsistence (PDF p.20 / printed p.152).
- Figure 1 of the article is “The New Jew”: a 1938 Jewish National Fund poster calling for Zionist colonisation of the Galilee, from the Central Zionist Archives, reproduced in Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete, facing p.374 (note 61, PDF p.36 / printed p.168). The poster image is in the PDF; the text copy carries only its caption.
- The figure stands against the article’s counter-image of the “old yishuv”, the earlier religious Ashkenazi in-migrations disparaged and orientalised by the Zionists as lethargic rabbinical misfits (PDF p.9 / printed p.141).
Related pages
Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics, Conquest of Labour, Negation of the Diaspora, Jewish National Fund