Israel-Arab/Palestinian Conflict
A collection of texts on Israel-Arab/Palestinian conflict and cooperation during the British Mandate of Palestine and after creation of Israel.
Israeli and Palestinian Writers
Cooperation and Conflict during the British Mandate of Palestine
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War and Establishment of State of Israel
Further Development of the Conflict
Israeli and Palestinian Writers
Tony Cliff
– 1935–2000. Tony Cliff was a leading Palestinian Jewish Trotskyist during the 1930s and first half of 1940s.
Uri Avnery
– 1923–2018. Uri Avnery was an Israeli writer and activist, founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement in 1993.
Edward Said
– 1935–2003. Edward Said was a Palestinian-American professor of literature, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.
Ghassan Kanafani
– 1936–1972. Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was a Palestinian writer and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Moshé Machover
– 1936– Moshé Machover was a founder member of the Israeli Socialist Organisation (Matzpen).
Mahmoud Darwish
– 1941–2008. Mahmoud Darwish was a leading Palestinian poet and a Communist.
Cooperation and Conflict during the British Mandate of Palestine
The Second International
Poale Zion (Workers of Zion)
The Communists and the Arab Problem, Marie Syrkin n.d. [mid-1930s]
Socialist Party, USA
British Policy in Palestine, Bezalel Sherman 1939
The Third International
Speech by Ridwan al Hilw (Yusuf), the Palestinian Delegate, to the 7th Comintern Congress, 1935
The Fighting in Palestine, Communist International January 1939
Palestine Communist Party
After the Liquidated Balfour Declaration in Palestine, Meir Vilner 1939
Arab-Jewish Unity for the Solution of Palestine's Problems, Meir Vilner 1946
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The Communist Movement in Palestine, 1919-1949
Reflections on a Silenced History. The PCP and Internationalism, Musa Budeiri 2012
Communist Party оf Great Britain
The Class Character of the Palestine Rising 1, 1930
The Class Character of the Palestine Rising 2, 1930
Statement on Palestine, British Section, League Against Imperialism 1930
The Events in Palestine, 1936
Is Palestine Prosperous?, 1936
Palestine: The Imperialist View, 1937
The Palestine Report, 1937
Partition is a Crime Against Arabs and Jews, 1937
Against the British Plan to Divide Palestine, William Gallacher, M.P. 1937
Open Letter to a Socialist-Zionist, 1938
The Arab-Jewish Conference, I. Rennap 1939
The Position in Palestine and the Path to Peace, I. Rennap 1939
War Effects in Palestine and the Near East, I. Rennap 1940
Declaration on Palestine, [at the Empire Communist Parties Conference, 1947]
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British Palestine, British Communists, and the "Ideo-Logical" system of Labour Monthly, Emerson Bodde 2016
Communist Party, USA
Brown Shirts in Zion. Jabotinsky – The Jewish Hitler, Robert Gessner 1935
Zionism Today, Paul Novick 1936
Palestine Under the Britian's Heel, Alter Brody 1936
On the Communist Approach to Zionism, J. Sultan 1936
Zionism, Earl Browder 1936
Palestine: The Communist Position, Paul Novick 1936
Palestine – Land of Anti-Imperialist Struggle, Paul Novick 1936
The Meaning of the Palestine Partition, Earl Browder, John Arnold, CPGB 1937
Peace by Understanding. A Communist Rejects the Partition of Palestine, Paul Novick 1938
A Solution for Palestine, Paul Novick 1938
Solution for Palestine. The Chamberlain White Paper, Paul Novick 1939
Zionism and the Imperialist War, Paul Novick 1940
Light on Palestine, Moses Miller 1946
Crisis in Palestine, Moses Miller 1946
Terror in the Promised Land, Moses Miller 1946
Palestine: What Is the Solution?, Alexander Bittelman 1946
Crossroads in Palestine, R. S. Gordon 1947
Palestine: A Solution, Charles S. Abrams 1947
A Democratic Solution for Palestine, Alexander Bittelman 1947
Palestine: Two Plans, John Stuart 1947
Canadian Communists
Palestine: What Is the Solution?, Tim Buck 1946
The Fourth International
Revolutionary Communist Party (UK)
Palestine the Pawn, 1938
The Jews Abandoned, 1939
Palestine - The Anglo-American Commission of Enquiry, 1946
Communist League of America (U.S.)
Palestine – Pogrom or Revolution?, Max Shachtman 1929
Socialist Workers Party (U.S.)
For a Socialist Policy on Palestine, Felix Morrow 1936
The Palestine Question, Paul Koston 1939
Zionism and the Arab Struggle, The Spark 1939
British Overlords Sole Gainers in Palestine Conference Plan, Felix Morrow 1939
A Program of Action for Palestine, Haor (El Nour) 1939
Rebuttal on the Palestine Question, The Spark 1939
Zionism and the Jewish Question in the Near East, Fourth International 1946
Workers Party (U.S.)
Jewish Colonization in Palestine, Karl Minter 1942
Nazi Pogroms Threaten Unarmed Palestine Jews, Albert Gates 1942
Whither Zionism? Wither Jewry?, Karl Minter 1943
Whither Zionism? Wither Jewry? - II, Karl Minter 1943
Whither Zionism? Wither Jewry? - III, Karl Minter 1943
A "Dreyfus Case" in Palestine, William Gorman 1943
The Jewish Question and Palestine, Labor Action 1944
Comments on Articles on Zionism, Ben Hall 1944
Palestine ...Political Divisions; The Coming Elections, William Gorman 1944
British Policy Reason for Moyne Murder, William Gorman 1944
Resistance Flares in Palestine, Max Shachtman 1946
For Self-Determination in Palestine, Leon Shields 1946
The Meaning of Self-Determination. A Reply to Leon Shields, Albert Gates 1946
The Jews of Europe and Immigration to Palestine, New International 1946
Free Immigration Everywhere. Free Palestine with Majority Rule, National Committee, Workers Party 1946
No Immigration to Palestine. Arab Freedom the Main Issue, W. Brooks 1946
Four Recent Books on Palestine, William Gorman 1947
[Jews and Palestine], W. Brooks 1947
Other currents
Socialist Party of Great Britain
Potash and Palestine. Dead-Sea Fruit, Edgar Hardcastle 1929
Divide and Rule in Palestine, Gilbert McClatchie 1937
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War and Establishment of State of Israel
Social Democratic and Left Socialist Parties
Jewish Workers' Bund
Statement on Palestine and Zionism issued by the New York Bund Organization 1947
Statement of the Jewish Socialist Organization in England August 1947
Jewish Labor Bund and the Jewish-Arab War in Palestine April 1948
The State of Israel June 1948
The Jewish Labor Bund and the State of Israel Statement of the Executive of the Bund World Coordinating Committee June 1948
Truce in Palestine July 1948
Mainstream Communist Parties
Communist Party of Israel
The Peoples of Palestine Struggle for National Independence, S. [Shmuel] Mikunis 1948
Critique of United Workers Party Platform, Esther Vilenska 1948
Communist Party, USA
New Tasks and Realignments in the Struggle for the Jewish State in Palestine, Alexander Bittelman December 1947
Wall Street Sells Out the Jewish State, Alexander Bittelman 1948
The New State of Israel, Alexander Bittelman 1948
Class Forces in Israel's Fight for Independence, A. B. Magil 1949
What We Did: The American Jewish Communist Left and the Establishment of the State of Israel, Dorothy M. Zellner
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The Soviet Union and the Creation of the State of Israel, Gabriel Gorodetsky 2001
Moscow's Surprise: The Soviet-Israeli Alliance of 1947-1949, Laurent Rucker 2005
Trotskyist Parties
Revolutionary Communist League (Mandatory Palestine)
The Trotskyist Position in Palestine: Against the Stream, Kol Ham'amad 1948
Socialist Workers Party (U.S.)
U.S. Imperialist Treachery on Palestine, Irving Dale 1948
Editorial: The Arab-Jewish War in Palestine, The Militant 1948
Zionism and the Middle East. The Aftermath of the Jewish-Arab War, S. Munier [Gabriel Baer] 1949
The Workers Party (U.S.)
What's Ahead for Palestine?, Al Findley 1948
Partition One Thing; Aid to Jews Another, Albert Goldman 1948
War of Independence or Expansion?, Labor Action 1948
How to Defend Israel. A Political Program for Israeli Socialists, Hal Draper 1948
Other currents
Socialist Party of Great Britain
Palestine and its Problems, Gilbert McClatchie 1948
Independent Writers
New Palestine Party: Visit of Menachem Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed (Letter to the New York Times), Albert Einstein et al. 1948
The Birth of Israel, Jean-Paul Sartre 1949
Further Development of the Conflict
The Palestinian Resistance
Basic Political Documents of the Armed Palestinian Resistance Movement, Leila S. Kadi 1969
Palestine Liberation Organization
Proclamation of the Establishment of the PLO 1964
Palestinian National Charter 1964
Palestinian National Charter 1968
Political Program of the PLO 1974
Communiqué of the 19th Extraordinary Session of the Palestine National Council 1988
Palestinian Declaration of Independence 1988
Address to the UN Security Council on the Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Yassir Arafat 1990
Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah)
Constitution 1960s
Towards a Democratic State in Palestine (Part 2) 1970
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Statement by the Political Bureau 2002
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
National Unity Government with New Political Program 2007
National Reconciliation Document of Palestinian Prisoners Inside Israeli Prisons, Fatah, Hamas, DFLP, PFLP & Islamic Jihad Movement 2006
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Social Democratic and Left Socialist Parties
Mapam
The Expulsion of Israel From the UN – What Purpose Would It Serve? 1975
The Palestinian Problem in MAPAM: The Middle East, International Affairs 1985
Mainstream Communist Parties
Communist Party of Israel
Peace Front in Israel, 1950
Who Endangers Israel's Security?, Esther Vilenska 1950
Israel Is In Danger, Moshe Sneh March 1953
Israel, [on the Suez crisis] S. Mikunis 1957
The Real Gain For Israel Is a Peace Agreement, Esther Vilenska 1972
A Peace Medal For Yasir Arafat, Esther Vilenska 1975
New Communist List/Communist Party of Israel (Rakah)
The Road to Peace in the Middle East, Wolf Ehrlich 1969
Two Years Since the June 1967 War, Meir Vilner 1969
We Shall Struggle to Prevent the Renewing of Battles, for Establishment of a Just and Lasting Peace!, Statement of the CC of the Communist Party of Israel on the Occasion of the 4th Anniversary of the June War 1971
Nevertheless It Does Move, and Will Go on Moving! 4 Years After the June War, Wolf Ehrlich 1971
Heroes of the War, Meir Vilner [The African Communist, #56, First Quarter 1974]
Israeli CP Leaders Condemn Terror Against Civilians 1975
Zionism – Is It Racist? Two Statements on the UN Resolution, Hyman Lumer, Meir Vilner 1975
Communist Party оf Great Britain
Israel and the Arab Middle East, R. Palme Dutt 1957
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The British Communist Party and Israel: From the Establishment of the Jewish State to the Invasion of Lebanon, [from June Edmunds' The Left's Views on Israel: From the Establishment of the Jewish State to the Intifada] 2013
Communist Party, USA
Jerusalem, National Independence and Peace, Alexander Bittelman July 1950
Israel in Crisis, A. B. Magil 1950
Which Way Israel?, A. B. Magil 1956
Which Way Israel?, Hyman Lumer 1966
The Middle East Crisis, Hyman Lumer 1967
Arabs and Israelis: The Broken Peace, Tom Foley 1967
War and Peace in the Middle East, 1967
Israel Today: War or Peace?, Hyman Lumer 1970
The Middle East: Which Way to Peace?, Herbert Aptheker 1971
Israel: Image and Reality, Carl Bloice 1973
Zionism: Its Role in World Politics, Hyman Lumer 1973
Zionism – Is It Racist? Two Statements on the UN Resolution, Hyman Lumer, Meir Vilner 1975
Communist Party of Cuba
Cuba's Position on the Middle East Crisis, 1967
Trotskyist Parties and Organisations
Socialist Workers Party / International Socialists (UK)
Israel and Imperialism (A brief analysis), N. Israeli 1968
Palestine: Guerilla Organisations, Ibrahim Ali 1969
Palestine, Ibrahim Ali 1971
The Struggle to Liberate Palestine in Israel: The Hijack State, John Rose 1986
Palestinian Nationalism and the Arab Revolution, Phil Marfleet 1986
A Tale of Two Movements, Phil Marfleet 1994
Bookwatch: Palestine and the Middle East ‘Peace Process’, Clare Fermont 1996
Palestine Solidarity in Israel, Chanie Rosenberg 2001
Building Solidarity with Palestine, Chris Harman 2007
The “South Africa moment” – Palestine, Israel and the boycott, Tom Hickey and Phil Marfleet 2010
An end to isolation? Palestine and the Arab revolutions, Phil Marfleet 2015
Socialist Workers Party (U.S.)
Burning Issues of the Mid-East Crisis, Peter Buch 1969
Palestinian Liberation and Israel, Peter Buch 1969
Resolution on Israel and the Arab Revolution, adopted at the Twenty-Fourth National Convention of the SWP in August 1971
Israel and the Arab Revolution, Gus Horowitz 1973
Independent Socialist League (U.S.)
The Jewish Question and Israel, Resolution adopted by the Independent Socialist League 1951
Israel on its 4th Anniversary, Al Findley 1952
Israel's Arab Minority: The Beginning of a Tragedy, Hal Draper 1956
Israel's Arab Minority: The Great Land Robbery, Hal Draper 1957
Zionism, Israel & the Arabs, Hal Draper 1990
American Socialist magazine
The Arab-Israeli Conflict, A Jewish Socialist 1957
World Outlook magazine
The Israeli Victory — a Setback for the Antiwar Movement, 1967
Bertrand Russell Scores Israel as Aggressor / Israeli Communist Party Backs Israel’s Aggression, 1967
The Arab-Israeli War: Yost’s Analysis, Peter Buch 1968
French Jews for Palestinian Rights, Daniel Bensaïd et al. 2000
International Socialist Review magazine
Israel: Colonial-settler state, Phil Gasper 2000
Socialist Viewpoint magazine
Collection of texts on Israel-Palestinian Conflict 2001-2019
Socialist Voice journal (Canada)
Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Defense of Palestinian Rights, Suzanne Weiss 2008
The New Left
United States
Arab-Israeli Debate: Toward A Socialist Solution, Jewish Liberation Project vs. Committee to Support Middle East Liberation 1970
The Way to Peace: Two Peoples, Two States, Robbie (Scholem) Skeist for the Chutzpah Collective 1975
Guilt Tripping: The Middle East Debate in the National Lawyers Guild, Steven Lubet and Mirian Henriquez Nudel 1976
Socialist Register
Israel, Palestine and Zionism, Marcel Liebman 1970
Israel
The Palestine Question Analyzed in the Light of Marxist Politics, Reuven Kaminer
Socialist Organisation in Israel / Matzpen
Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace (Israel and the Arabs 1948-1961), N. Israeli (Akiva Orr and Moshé Machover) 1961
Some Remarks Concerning the Left in Israel, 1966
Matzpen. A Collection of Political Statements, 1967-1971
Matzpen. A Collection of Political Statements, 1967-1969
Zionism and Palestine, Avika Orr 1971
Israel: Politics, Myths and Identity Crises, Avika Orr 1994
Anti-Revisionism
The War in the Middle East Class Against Class 1973
Israel-Palestine: For a class analysis Workers International Newsletter 1974
Nationalism hurts Palestinian revolution Workers International Newsletter 1974
Correspondence with a Palestinian Revolutionary Workers International Newsletter 1974
Resolution on Palestine, Second International Meeting of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations 1984
RIM Committee Statement in Support of the Uprising in Palestine, Revolutionary Internationalist Movement 1988
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See also
Jews, Marxism and the Worker’s Movement
History of Anti-Imperalism and Workers Struggle in the Arab World
Comments to Zdravko Saveski
Last updated on 28 August 2023