Summary
The Israeli Socialist Organization, commonly known by the name of its newspaper, Matzpen, whose members Moshe Machover and Akiva Orr wrote the 1969 analysis “The Class Character of Israel” on which Chapter 4 of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction rests (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 864-880).
Details
- Machover and Orr argued the Israeli working class had a vested economic interest in maintaining racist divisions, its class antagonism subordinated to cross-class unity against Palestinians (lines 864-880).
- Matzpen activists supported the Mizrachi Israeli Black Panthers in the early 1970s, a movement Chapter 4 presents as a notable exception in Israeli social movements (lines 1012-1014).
- Chapter 4 closes by quoting Machover and Orr’s prediction that a revolutionary movement of the Arab working classes would make Israel’s politico-military role obsolete and the Zionist regime open to mass challenge from within Israel (lines 1038-1042).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Moshe Machover, Akiva Orr, Daphna Thier, Settler Colonialism