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First of a two-part episode on a people's history of Zionism and opposition to within Israel, in conversation with former members of socialist group Matzpen Moshe Machover, Haim and Udi. Support this podcast, and listen to part 2 now on patreon: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory MORE INFORMATION – For more information on Matzpen, check out their website: http://www.matzpen.org/english/ or watch this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfcFno2pqJg – For further reading written by Matzpen co-founder, Moshe Machover, see his archive on the Matzpen site: http://www.matzpen.org/english/tag/moshe-machover/ See also other collections of Moshe’s texts on the Israeli Occupation Archive and libcom.org websites: https://www.israeli-occupation.org/tag/moshe-machover/ // https://libcom.org/tags/moshe-machover – For a further expansion of Moshe’s discussion on the podcast regarding the resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict, see: http://www.matzpen.org/english/2009-02-10/resolution-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-a-socialist-viewpoint-moshe-machover/ – For more texts written by Moshe’s comrade and fellow Matzpen co-founder, Akiva Orr, see the archives on the Matzpen and libcom.orgwebsites: http://www.matzpen.org/english/tag/akiva-orr/ // https://libcom.org/tags/aki-orr – The recordings of Aki were taken from the following videos: Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - https://youtu.be/MwjKa9v6OAY // Author and activist Akiva Orr on Israel’s wars - https://vimeo.com/19444809 – The complete archive of the English-language editions of Khamsin: https://libcom.org/library/khamsin-journal-revolutionary-socialists-middle-east – For a good overview of the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, we recommend Ilan Pappe’s History of Modern Palestine. We would also recommend Matzpen’s 1972 pamphlet The Other Israel: The Radical Case Against Zionism: http://www.matzpen.org/english/category/the-other-israel/ // https://libcom.org/library/other-israel-radical-case-against-zionism – For further reading on the workers' movement (both Arab and Jewish) in Palestine pre-1948, we would recommend Zachary Lockman’s excellent book Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 (which also contains information on ‘left-wing’ or ‘workers’ Zionism and its contradictions) as well as Musa Budeiri’s Palestine Communist Party, 1919-48: Arab And Jew In The Struggle For Internationalism. Further reading on the Histadrut’s contradictory role here: http://www.matzpen.org/english/1972-02-10/the-histadrut-union-and-boss/ – For an overview of the 1947-49 Palestine War, commonly known as the ‘Nakba’ (‘catastrophe’ or ‘disaster’ in English): http://www.matzpen.org/english/1972-02-10/the-palestine-problem/ – For a more in-depth look at the systematic nature of Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestinians during the war, see Ilan Pappe’s 'The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine': https://libcom.org/library/1948-ethnic-cleansing-palestine-ilan-pappe – For more on the 1967 ‘Six Day’ War, see Moshe’s ‘The War Israel Planned’: https://www.israeli-occupation.org/2017-07-11/moshe-machover-the-war-israel-planned/ – For more on the 1982 Lebanon war, see: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/06/23/16218181.php – For an in-depth look at the first and second intifadas, and the significant differences between them (as well as wider history of resistance and demobilisation by the official organisations of ‘national liberation’: https://libcom.org/library/21st-century-intifada-israel-palestine-aufheben ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Edited by Louise Barry, from Audio Interference: http://interferencearchive.org/category/publications/audio/ Thanks to Max Blumenthal (https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal)for permission to use audio from video clips which are here: https://youtu.be/MwjKa9v6OAY and https://vimeo.com/19444809

This week we speak to Daphna Thier on the theme of “What’s the matter with the Israeli working class?” That’s the provocative title of Daphna’s new article in the International Socialist Review, and she talks to us about how Israel’s Zionist history and present have prevented the development of any current among its non-Palestinian workers that challenges the country’s racist undemocratic order. Daphna is a Brooklyn-based socialist who grew up in Jerusalem, and she talks about the work of Moshe Machover and Akiva Orr, Israeli anti-Zionist socialists who in 1969 argued, as Daphna puts it in her article, “that the Israeli working class has a vested material interest in precisely the same policies that weaken workers in other countries.” She then explains her attempt to update the path-breaking analysis of Machover and Orr to cover the changes in Israeli society during the past four decades, when the country embraced anti-worker neoliberal reforms but also became an even more central lynchpin of U.S. imperial domination of the Middle East. In our opener, we look back at the global financial crash that began 10 years ago this week with the collapse of Lehman Brothers. We take stock of the enormous ways the Great Recession has changed the world, from the massive increase in economic and racial inequality to the political polarization that is driving the declining influence of centrist parties while both socialists and the far right have seen their forces grow. Links for this episode: • Daphna’s article “What’s the matter with the Israeli working class?” (http://bit.ly/Israelworkers) • Zachary Lockman’s vital history, Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 (http://bit.ly/ComradesEnemies) • “The Class Character of Israel” by Moshe Machover and Akiva Orr (http://bit.ly/IsraelClassCharacter) • Socialist Worker’s 2013 editorial about the financial collapse, “The market meltdown we’re still paying for” (http://bit.ly/TheMarketMeltdown) Music and audio for this episode: The Boy & Sister Alma, “Lizard Eyes” (Dead Sea Captains Remix) Kid Cudi, “Pursuit Of Happiness” ft. MGMT Edwin Starr, “War” Leyla McCalla, “Little Sparrow” Racquet Club, “New Granada”

Zachary Lockman has taught modern Middle Eastern history at New York University since 1995. His most recent book is Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States (2016). His other books include Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (2004/2010); Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 (1996); and (with Joel Beinin) Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954 (1987). He is a former president of the Middle East Studies Association, chairs the wing of MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom that deals with North America, and is a contributing editor of Middle East Report.

Join Jamie Parker and James Robinson as we sit down with PhD candidate Sana Tannoury-Karam to talk about Arab Communists and the Arab Left in the interwar period through World War Two. We talked about Sana's journey from studying political science in Beirut to studying history in Boston. She touches on individuals in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq and the evolution of Communist Parties throughout the Arab world from organic local creativity to strict Stalinism. Sana argues for an "internationalist moment" in the interwar period, contrary of the historiography of the region being sectarian and divided. She recounts her research journeys and difficulties consulting resources in the Middle East, especially with her focus on Lebanon and women's movements with Communism. She also explores the tensions between labor and CPs, and the politics of global anti-fascism. Books mentioned: "Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon" by Elizabeth Thompson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1050974.Colonial_Citizens "Militant Women of a Fragile Nation" by Malek Abisaab https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9405372-militant-women-of-a-fragile-nation "Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948" by Zachary Lockman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522679.Comrades_and_Enemies "Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954" by Joel Beinin, Zachary Lockman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522681.Workers_on_the_Nile "Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798 -1939" by Albert Hourani https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185611.Arabic_Thought_in_the_Liberal_Age_1798_1939 "Liberal Thought in the Eastern Mediterranean: Late 19th Century Until the 1960s" by Christoph Schumann https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7784825-liberal-thought-in-the-eastern-mediterranean "The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914" by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7133631-the-eastern-mediterranean-and-the-making-of-global-radicalism-1860-1914 "The “East” as a Category of Bolshevik Ideology and Comintern Administration: The Arab Section of the Communist University of the Toilers of the East" (article) by Masha Kirasirova https://muse.jhu.edu/article/650067 Picture from Sana's collection: Workers gathered for the first public celebration of May day in 1925 Beirut. Red flags and slogans of ‘workers of the world unite’. The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Theme Music: Kieran Legg