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## A comprehensive history of the Matzpen group, who advocated for a joint community of Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs and a socialist Middle East * Focuses on the stories of Matzpen’s protagonists whose biographies are linked to key events in Israeli history * Uses the history of Matzpen as an entry point to broader questions around Israeli and Middle Eastern history, politics and culture * Tells a history of Israel from the margins and raises new questions about the Jewish state I the Middle East This book explores the history of the Israeli Socialist Organization – Matzpen (compass) – that splintered off from the Communist Party of Israel in 1962. After the Six Day War of June 1967, Matzpen shook Israeli society, calling for a withdrawal from the recently occupied territories, and placing itself outside the national consensus. Even before the war, the group emphasised the colonial dimension of the conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs, which was irresolvable within the paradigm of the nation-state. Matzpen instead advocated for Israel’s de-Zionisation and a socialist revolution in the Middle East in order to both restore the rights of Palestinian Arabs and guar

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Author

Lutz Fiedler, (Historian); Jake Schneider

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474451192

Category

nonfiction