Summary
A leading member of Hapoel Hatzair in the Second Aliya, born in a part of the Russian Empire that today is in Poland, who came to Palestine in 1909 and whose failed joint strike action with Palestinian workers is the case through which Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers shows socialism turned national (Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers, PDF p.11 / printed p.49).
Details
- Harpaz learned Arabic, a move Pappé notes always appears as a unique gesture towards the locals and not as a necessity, in order to organise a joint industrial action; the Palestinians were recorded by him as traitors who at the last moment told the Jewish farmer of the intention to strike and asked for a raise (PDF p.11).
- Wondering if this one case indicated a more serious problem for the chance of socialism in Palestine, he consulted Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, who explained that international revolution meant in Palestine Jewish and Western revolution alone (PDF p.11).
- Cited in note 18: ‘The Early Pangs of Occupation’, in The Book of the Second Aliya, p.226 (PDF p.19 / printed p.57).
Related pages
Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers, Hapoel Hatzair, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Second Aliya