Socialist Organiser, who strive to find a progressive content within Zionism, have to do so by ignoring the reality even of internal Israeli politics. Zionism ues ine israel working class Ilo al. alliance with the jewish bosses to defend the 'national interest' against a mythical 'Arab threat'. From the beginning the development of class politics was distorted by Zionism.
The General Federation of Hebrew workers, the Histadrut, campaigned for jewish, not workers, control over land, labour and the means of production. It organised boycotts of Arab labour and been physically attacked Arab producers in public markets. Small Golda Meir called it 'a great çolonising agency:
Similarly, the Kibbutzim, presented as an oasis of socialism in the Middle East, specifically exclude Arabs, and in fact, are often large industrial enterprises, built on expropriated Arab land, which exploit cheap provide comfortable lifestyles for their jewish inhabitants.
Any unity workers can only be based on winning the jewish working class to break with Zionism Zionist black and white unity can only be basLed on opposition to apartheid. the From its birth the new Israeli state was faced with problems which determined its international policy. A tiny enclave cut off economically trom the Palesti- rest of the Middle East, it was not a whilst viable entity. From its inception it had of to rely on imperialist support in return