Summary
Israeli-British academic and political activist named in the Introduction of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions among the anticolonial Israeli partners of the BDS Call, and quoted in Chapter 10 against the Israeli “peace activists” self-image (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, PDF p.42, p.147).
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Chapter 10 commends the courageous actions of some Israeli self-described peace activists but quotes Machover chastising them for contributing to Israel’s propaganda: their self-description “reveals a profound misapprehension as to the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a delusion as to how it might be resolved” (PDF p.147).
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Machover, as quoted: the symmetric image of two sides at war over disputed turf is also the image promoted by Israeli hasbarah; “The key to a proper understanding of the conflict is that it is an extremely asymmetric one: between settler-colonisers and the indigenous people. It is about dispossession and oppression.” (PDF p.147)
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Machover endorses Palestine: A Socialist Introduction in its praise, and is quoted in Chapter 1 on the 2018 Nation-State Law as an attempt to legitimise the Zionist state as the nation-state of a worldwide Jewish nation; Chapter 4 rests on his and Akiva Orr’s 1969 Matzpen essay “The Class Character of Israel” (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 7-31, lines 374-378, lines 864-880).
Related pages
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, Omar Barghouti, BDS movement, Settler Colonialism