Summary
Israeli anti-Zionist socialist of Matzpen, co-author with Moshe Machover of the 1969 essay “The Class Character of Israel” (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 864-880).
Details
- The essay is quoted in Chapter 4: “The experience of fifty years does not contain a single example of Israeli workers being mobilized on material or trade-union issues to challenge the Israeli regime itself” (line 876).
- Orr was one of only two strikers in the forty-three-day seamen’s strike of late 1951 who came to break with Zionism, the strike being Chapter 4’s singular exception to MAPAI’s grip on labour (line 918).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Matzpen, Moshe Machover, Histadrut