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September 15, 2020

When British Socialists Supported Israel as an Anti-Imperialist Project

Even when Labor tried to nip it in the bud.

Between 1944 and 1950, Great Britain’s Communist party, in stark contrast to the far left today, vocally supported the creation of a Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine. This position put the Communists at odds with the Labor party of the day—not to mention with the Corbynite wing of today’s Labor party—which was working to keep Jews from reaching Palestine and to prevent those there from declaring a state. As John Strawson explains, British Communists were following the lead of Moscow, which at the time favored the establishment of a Jewish state, mostly out of antipathy to London’s imperial interests:

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September 15, 2020

  1. Why Bahrain’s Move to Make Peace Is Especially Courageous

    Defying Iran.

  2. When British Socialists Supported Israel as an Anti-Imperialist Project

    Even when Labor tried to nip it in the bud.

  3. The Legacy of the Munich Massacre and Israel’s Response

    Golda Meir’s moment.

  4. Martin Buber’s Thought Is Not Likely to Experience a Resurgence

    That’s not a bad thing, but a sensitive new biography is still worth reading.

  5. Pop Culture Embraces Tradition, While Tradition Embraces Pop Culture—but Only One Succeeds

    American Pickle and Young Rechnitz