The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 180)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 180)
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ers, possessing nothing but their threatening labor power which had to be
transferred away.
Moreover, it seems in retrospect, that the transfer of the Palestinian
population across the borders of their own country was indispensable for the
implementation of Zionism in general and its socialist or proletarian stra-
tegy in particular. It provided not only for the possibility of Jewish demo-
graphic superiority and a large territorial base required for a sovereign
Jewish State. It provided also for the possibility of exclusive Jewish pro-
letarianization by transferring the contradiction generated by the actual
practices of Labor-Zionism, namely, the more competitive "free" native labor
force.
This point becomes clearer as we review the process and effects of the
"conquest of labor", the essence of the Labor-Zionist strategy. In the fol-
lowing discussion we therefore try to demonstrate the consistency of this
transfer with requirements of proletarian Zionism. In light of the contra-
dictions generated by the "socialist" Zionist practices in the concrete con-
ditions of Palestine, we argue that the transfer solution was indispensable
to the realization of proletarian Zionism.
(b) The "Conquest of Labor" and the "Boycott of Arab Labor"
The necessity to normalize the "inverted pyramid" used by Borochov to
rationalize his formula for the realization of Zionism, creating a Jewish
working class on a Jewish land, was in practice translated into the policy
of employing only Jewish labor in Jewish factories and farms. This is the
judaization of production, articulated in the slogan "Tozeret Haaretz"
(Popularize Palestine Products) which, "in the guise of promoting native
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products resulted in a boycott of Arab goods." 3 This, then, was explicitly - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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