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Author Kelemen, Paul, author

Title The British left and Zionism : History of a divorce / Paul Kelemen
Published Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Manchester [England] : Manchester University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (1 PDF (x, 225 pages))
Series Manchester Political Studies
Contents The Labour Party and the Zionist project -- Zionism and Anglo-Jewry -- British communists and Palestine -- Post-war social democracy and Israel -- The new left and the Palestinians -- The new anti-semitism?
Summary The changes and divisions on the left over the Israel-Palestine conflict forms the central theme of this archive based study. While the Labour Party supported establishing a Jewish state in Palestine, as a modernising force, the communist movement opposed it, on the grounds that it facilitated imperial influence in the Middle East. In 1947, however, the British Communist Party rallied to the Zionist cause, leaving the Palestinian cause with no effective protagonists in Britain. The left's sympathy, at the time, was overwhelmingly with the Israeli state, considering its establishment a recompense to the Jewish people for the Holocaust. It was only after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, that the new left in Britain began to articulate a critical attitude to Israel and support for Palestinian nationalism. It is a perspective which has gradually gained ground in the political mainstream
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-218) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Arab-Israeli conflict.
Zionism.
Labor Zionism -- History
Political science and theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
Arab-Israeli conflict
Diplomatic relations
Labor Zionism
Politics and government
Zionism
Society & Social Sciences -- Politics & government -- Political science & theory.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Palestine
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Israel
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056922
Subject Great Britain
Israel
Middle East -- Palestine
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526130358
1526130351