Chapter 20 - Palestine and the US anti-war movement (Palestine, Israel, and the US Empire)
Written by Richard Becker Copyright © 2009 by PSL Publications Library of Congress Control Number: 2009932241
13 Maj 202116min
Massacres were indispensable to creation of the Israeli state
Much of the historical material in this article can be found in the book, Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire, by Richard Becker. (PSL Publications, 2009) https://store.pslweb.org/Palestine-Israel-...
12 Maj 202114min
Ch. 7 - World War II: Anti-Semitism and genocide (Palestine, Israel, and the US Empire)
Suffused with anti-Semitism themselves, many in the U.S. ruling class in the 1930s viewed Nazi Germany as a weapon against their main enemy of the time—the Soviet Union. A number of U.S. capitalists ...
12 Maj 20217min
Ch. 6 - The Palestinian revolt of 1936-1939 (Palestine, Israel, and the US Empire)
The aim of the Zionists to dispossess Palestinians of their land and rights was no mystery to the Palestinian population. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s there were numerous uprisings against British c...
12 Maj 20218min
Ch. 5 - Building a settler state American-style (Palestine, Israel, and the US Empire)
Though it had its own distinct roots, Zionism shared some of the characteristics of the reactionary European movements. It fiercely opposed the anti-colonial and genuine national liberation movements....
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Ch. 4 - Zionism: A colonial project (Palestine, Israel, and the US Empire)
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Zionism represented a small minority among Jewish people. It was mainly a movement of the middle class, with support from a few wealthy sponsors, particularl...
12 Maj 202116min
Ch. 3 - Dividing the Middle East (Palestine, Israel, and the US Empire)
While Palestine was still nominally under Ottoman rule, Britain’s foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, sent a letter to Lord Rothschild, a member of the British House of Lords and one of the world’s ric...
12 Maj 20219min
Ch. 2 - Does the Israel lobby control U.S. policy? (Palestine, Israel, and the US Empire)
But does the pro-Israel lobby—or Israel itself through the lobby—control and direct U.S. policy in the Middle East? To put it another way, does the tail wag the dog? Is it really conceivable that a ...
12 Maj 202117min
