- Israel is better conceptualized as a “herrenfolk democracy” (see the definition of the concept in P. van den Berghe, Race and Racism, New York: John Wiley, 1967), pp. 18, 29, in which the democracy of the Jewish Israeli majority is denied to the Palestinian Arab minority within Israel and in the occupied territories. See also S. Jiryis, The Arabs in Israel (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1969).
- The following studies discuss the sources, ideology and structure of the above movements : R. Blauner, “Internal Colonialism and Ghetto Revolt,” Bobbs-Merrill, BC-27, Indianapolis; J. Boggs, Racism and the Class Struggle (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972); R. Flacks, Youth and Social Change (Markham, 1970); J. Mitchell, Women's Estate (New York: Vintage Books, 1971); and M. Miles, The Radical Probe (New York: Atheneum, 1971).
- See A. Jabara, “The American Left and the June Conflict,” in I. Abu-Lughod, ed., The Arab-Israeli Confrontation of June 1967 (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970), pp. 169–91.
- The method followed is the qualitative analysis of the content of all publications, etc., available from October 1973 to January 1974, a time period in which reportage on and analysis of Middle Eastern politics were at a peak due to the October War. The focal issues in the analysis are the Palestine-Zionist contradiction, the Arab-Israeli state-to-state conflict, and the role of imperialism and internal class structure in the region. For methodology see B. Berelson, Content Analysis in Communication Research (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952).
- Daily World, October 13, 23, 24, 25 and 27, 1973.
- The nature of that threat can be seen in the Daily World (October 13, 1973) reports of a UPI story about Indian and Chicano Green Berets sent to Jordan in 1970 to assassinate Palestinian leaders, and of the role of the US Sixth Fleet in the suppression of the Palestinians during September 1970. See also Daily World, October 26 and 28, 1973 and November 17, 1973.
- Daily World, October 13, 1973. “Regaining these stolen lands has been the openly-stated objective of the Arab peoples for the past six years.” Daily World, October 10, 1973; for the Arabs “… it is a just war to drive the aggressors from their land…” See also Daily World, October 10, 18 and 20, 1973; November 7, 1973.
- Daily World, October 10 and 17, 1973.
- Daily World, October 10, 11, 17, 18, 20 and 23, 1973; November 2 and 17, 1973.
- Daily World, October 17, 1973, November 7, 9 and 17, 1973.
- This theme is reiterated consistently in editorials, position statements of CPUSA leaders, articles and reports of organizations taking some action (demonstrations, speeches, congresses, etc.) to express the same view. See Daily World editorials, October 10, 13, and 17, 1973. See CPUSA leaders’ statements in Daily World, October 10 and 23, 1973, and C. Komorowski's articles, esp. Daily World, November 17, 1973. For reports of organizations, see Daily World, October 13, 1973 (Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs); October 17, 1973 (Women Strike for Peace); October 18, 1973 (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom); October 20, 1973 (Ad Hoc Committee for Peace with Justice in the Middle East); October 19, March on White House; October 20 (Committee for a Just Peace in the Middle East).
- Daily World, November 2, 1973, editorial. See on the same page a speech expressing a similar stance by Meir Vilner, General Secretary of the CPI and Knesset member. See also November 3, 1973 editorial.
- Daily World, November 7, 1973, interview with British CP leader Solly Kaye.
- Daily World, October 24, 1973.
- Ibid.
- Daily World, October 13, 16, 17 and 23, 1973; November 2, 1973.
- Daily World, October 11 and November 17, 1973.
- Daily World, October 30, 1973.
- Daily World, November 7, 1973. Speech by Solly Kaye, British Jewish CP member.
- Daily World, November 27, 28 and 30, 1973, a series by Tom Foley, Daily World Mid-east specialist.
- Daily World, November 12, 1973. See also Daily World, October 25, 1973, for the CPI's analysis of “How Israeli peace movement was kept weak by anti-Communism.”
- One group, the Spartacist League, even attacks Yasser Arafat and George Habbash personally, on their class background, education, prior activities and associations. Nayef Hawatmeh meets with their qualified approval because he criticizes Palestinian nationalism and recommends cross-national (e.g., Palestinian-Jordanian and Palestinian-Israeli) mass alliances (Workers Vanguard, November 9, 1973).
- The Militant, November 30, 1973.
- The Militant, October 19, 1973.
- The Militant, October 26, 1973.
- The Militant, October 19, 1973.
- The Militant, October 26, 1973. “Zionism is not, as it claims, a national liberation movement. Zionism is a political movement that developed for the purpose of establishing a settler-colonial state in Palestine.”
- The Militant, October 26, 1973.
- Ibid.
- The Militant, November 9, 1973.
- The Militant, October 26, 1973.
- This is at great variance with the Maoist position discussed below.
- The Militant, October 19, 1973. Emphasis in original.
- The Militant, November 2, 1973.
- “Whatever now happens, the Arabs have won a significant political victory. The imperialists’ shock and surprise — a reflection of their racist denigration of the Arabs and their typical imperialist underestimation of the capacity of the oppressed masses to fight back — is itself eloquent testimony to the gains that have been made.” The Militant, October 26, 1973.
- The Militant, November 2, 1973.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Ibid. This is likened to Southeast Asia where “the central purpose of the Paris accords imposed on the Vietnamese by Washington, Moscow and Peking was to preserve the imperialists’ foothold in Saigon.” Ibid.
- The Militant, October 19, 1973. Emphasis in original.
- The Militant, October 26, 1973.
- The Militant, November 23, 1973.
- Workers Vanguard (Spartacist League), November 23, 1973; Class Struggle (Class Struggle League), November 1973; Workers Power (International Socialists), November 2-15, 1973; Bulletin (Workers League), October 19, 1973; The Torch (Revolutionary Socialist League), November 1973.
- Torch, op.cit.; Bulletin, op.cit.; Class Struggle, op.cit.; Workers Vanguard, November9, 1973.
- Workers Vanguard, November 9, 1973; Class Struggle, op.cit.; Workers Power, November 2-15, 1973; Bulletin, October 23, 1973.
- Young Spartacus (Youth Group of the Spartacist League), November-December, 1973; Workers Vanguard, November 9, 1973; Workers Power, October 19-November 1, 1973.
- Bulletin, October 19 and 23, 1973; Torch, November 1973.
- Torch, November 1973; Workers Power, October 19-November 1, 1973; Workers Vanguard, November 9, 1973.
- Bulletin, October 9 and 19, 1973.
- Class Struggle, November 1973.
- Workers Vanguard, November 9, 1973; Class Struggle, November 1973; Workers Power, December 21, 1973-January 17, 1974; Bulletin, October 19, 1973; Torch, November 1973.
- Class Struggle, November 1973; Torch, November 1973.
- Workers Vanguard, November 9, 1973; Young Spartacus, November-December, 1973; Workers Power, October 19, 1973, December21, 1973-January 17, 1974 •, Bulletin, October 23, 1973.
- Workers World, November 2, 1973. WYVP includes Lenin, Mao and Trotsky as revolutionary leaders and thinkers.
- Workers World, November 16, 1973.
- Workers World, November 2, 1973.
- Ibid.
- Workers World, November 16, and 30, 1973.
- Workers World, August 3, 1974.
- Fight Back, November 1973. See also Revolution, November 1973.
- The Call, October, December 1973; Guardian, October 24 and 31, November 28, 1973, December 5, 1973; Revolution, November 1973, December 1973.
- Revolution, November 1973. See also The Call, December 1973.
- Guardian, October 24, 1973; Antioch Attica Brigade Position Paper on The War in the Mideasl : Who are the Real Aggressors?, p. 5.
- Guardian, November 14, 1973.
- Guardian, October 10, 1973.
- Revolution, November 1973.
- Fight Back, November 1973.
- Revolution, November 1973: Guardian, December 12, 1973.
- Guardian, October 24, 1973.
- Guardian, November 7, 1973.
- Guardian, December 19, 1973; November 7, 1973.
- Guardian, October 17 and 31, 1973; The Call, November, December 1973.
- The Call, December 1973.
- Guardian, December 26, 1973; November 7, 1973.
- Guardian, January 24, 1974.
- Fight Back, November 1973; Guardian, October 24, 1973.
- Guardian, October 24, 1973; December 26, 1973; Revolution, November, 1973, December 1973; Fight Back, November 1973.
- See, for example, Guardian, October 10 and 24, 1973.
- Challenge, November 2, 1973. For a comprehensive exposition of PLP's application of these ideas to the Palestine-Israel situation, see their magazine, Workers’ International Newsletter (W7iV), January 1974, pp. 28–50.
- Challenge, November 16, 1973.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Challenge, November 2, 1973.
- Ibid.
- Challenge, December 13, 1973.
- Challenge, November 16, 1973.
- Challenge, November 2, 1973.
- Ibid.
- For example, in Washington, DC, where 85 per cent of the resident population is Black and there are strong American Muslim organization, one often see the bumper stricker: “No Arms to Israel — Muslim League of the USA.”
- See report in The Call, January 1974, taken from Muhammad Speaks. The methodology of the survey and the degree of strictness in the sampling technique are not reported.
- Interview with one of the BWC leaders who participated in and spoke at the antiWoodcock rally in Detroit. The demonstration of protest was reported in practically all of the papers. It is a significant action on behalf of the growing Arab-American working-class community in Detroit. Some conflicts with the Black workers there have already surfaced, as the auto companies use the recent Arab immigrants as strike-breakers and in other ways to split the solidarity of the workers.
- Black Panther, October 20, 1973.
- Black Panther, October 27, 1973.
- Black Panther, November 17, 1973. Abu Faysal states that the Palestinian guerrillas conduct only defensive operations in the Arqub area to protect local peasants from the Israelis and that Palestinian operations within Israel carefully avoid attacking civilians.
- Black Panther, November 7, 1973.
- See party literature and pamphlets. Michael Harrington makes the same point in his speeches, e.g., at a lecture attended by the authors at the State University of New York, Albany, 1970.
- From NAM's The Middle East Resolutions at the National Council : A Step Forward.
- Weekly People, October 27, 1973; December 8, 1973; January 5, 1974.
- Letter of principles and information from the National Office of the People's Party (Washington, DC).
- Ibid.
- Put out by the Michigan Human Rights Party, a local member party of the People's Party, which, according to the National Office of the People's Party (Washington, DC) in a private letter dated January 3, 1974, is “for all intents and purposes… the national party's position.”
- This “bi-national state” is different in conception from the one proposed by the smaller Trotskyist parties, since the latter provides for the dissection of Palestine anew if either of the constituent “nations” should choose to secede.
- The Bond, October 21, 1973.
- Ibid. Emphasis in original.
- Highway 13, November 1973. But in the December 1973 issue, they refer to the “progressive Arab nations” who have “served notice that the rip-off is over” by making an oil embargo.
- Highway 13, November 1973.
- Ibid.
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