Socialist Debate in the 80s and 90s on Israel and Palestine
A collection of long and lively debates and discussions from the 1980s and 90s — with many contributors — which informed and developed the Alliance for Workers' Liberty's positions on Israel, Palestine, and antisemitism. Reprinted with additional material and a new introduction, October 2019.
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This pamphlet presents the long and lively public debate in the 1980s and 1990s, with many contributors, which led to Workers' Liberty re-developing our ideas about Israel, Palestine, and antisemitism. It is a new, expanded, and corrected edition of the 1989 Workers' Liberty Pamphlet, Arabs, Jews and Socialism: The debate on Palestine, Zionism and anti-Semitism.
This October 2019 edition includes some additions to and corrections to the second edition, May 2019. The first edition was in 1989 (date incorrectly given, in second edition, as 1993). Some texts in this collection are slight revisions of earlier versions of those same texts found elsewhere on this website.
- Note, introduction (2019), preface (1989)
- Debate: Jim Higgins and Sean Matgamna
- 1. Anti-Zionism and anti-semitism
- 2. “Secular democratic Palestine” or “Two states”?
- 3. Zionism and the Holocaust
- 4. “Zionism” and “anti-Zionism” in Britain
- 5. The “Perdition” affair
- 6. How Trotskyists debated Palestine before the Holocaust
- Postscript: “With Hitler on the road to Samara”