Summary
Jewish historian of nationalism who left Palestine after the 1929 massacre of Jews in Hebron and, on Moses’s account, understood the violence as a colonial uprising while judging Zionist colonization behind the British military’s iron wall untenable (More than Genocide, line 183).
Details
- Unlike Vladimir Jabotinsky, Kohn thought colonization behind the iron wall, erected against the majority Arab population, would provoke endless colonial warfare; the events since October 7 testify, for Moses, to his prescience (line 183).
- His vision of a binational state in Palestine was dashed by the “iron wall” logic of other Zionists; Moses closes by setting Bashir Bashir’s Egalitarian binationalism as its possible successor (line 185).
Related pages
More than Genocide, Iron wall, Binationalism, Egalitarian binationalism