updated as of yesterday (July 21): based on a statistical model developed by a prestigious medical journal called The Lancet, Israel has killed roughly 434,800 people in Gaza since the country’s military started to attack the territory on 8 October 2023. That’s 20.7% of Gaza’s entire pre-conflict population dead. Over half are women and children.
The one thing I would push back on/add is that “Labour Zionism” and the Kibbutzim were fundamental to the Nakba and the current Israeli Holocaust. Just like all the European chauvinists who dissolved the Second International, calling oneself a Socialist does not prevent anyone from pursuing parasitic class interests.
Bund was at least proto-zionist since the beginning, they wanted to monopolise Jewish workers and regularily wrecked attempts to build join front with non-Jewish socialist orgs.
Again, not an expert on this history outside of how it intersects with Palestine, but (perhaps paradoxically) I’m sympathetic to this on the surface. Socialists who aren’t… you know, the Soviet Union don’t have the best track record on chauvinism. Given that, I find it hard to blame a deeply persecuted ethnic minority for not trusting their fellow Socialists.
It was XIX century, and naturally i meant the parties that made no difference for Jews and offered inclusion, not the bernsteinite socialchauvinists, those couldn’t be by default wrecked by Bund.
That makes sense. Universalism is a threat to separatism.