Summary
The Sons of the Village movement, founded in Um al-Fahm in 1972, which in Chapter 10 of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine is the nationalist camp’s clearest advocate of a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.276-290).
Details
- Founded by Arab nationalists and former communists around “affirmation of the Palestinian identity among the Arab people in Israel” and “opposition to the communist party” (PDF p.276); it opposed Knesset participation and rejected a West Bank/Gaza state as defeatist, holding the PLO to be the sole legitimate representative of a single Palestinian people (PDF p.277).
- Its student arm, the National Progressive Movement, consistently won student-government elections in the mid-to-late 1970s, but refusal of Knesset elections limited its wider impact and by the late 1980s it receded to the margins (PDF p.278).
- In 2008 it introduced a revised platform reaffirming a single democratic state on all of Palestine (PDF p.286); former leader Awad Abdel Fattah later co-founded the National Democratic Assembly and leads the One Democratic State Campaign (PDF p.281, 288).
Related pages
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Rakah, National Democratic Assembly, One-state solution