Israel itself. Against this propaganda, revolutionary anti-Zionists in
Israel united around the position expressed in the following statement, which was issued in
Jerusalem on November 23, 1975. It was signed by three organizations: the Israeli Socialist Organization (Matzpen), the Revolutionary Communist Alliance (Ma'avak), and the
IN ISRAEL Revolutionary Communist League (Fourth International). Long before the UN General Assembly resolution condemning Zionism, to be exact, eighty years before, Theodore Herzl, the author of The Jewish State, wrote: "We will constitute a bastion against Asia and a forward post in defense of civilization against barbarism. As a sovereign state, we will ceaselessly constitute a link and will be related to the peoples of Europe; for their part, they will guarantee our existence." And thus it is. Of all the predictions and judgments pronounced by the founder of Zionism, this is perhaps one of the few that retains its full validity and significance today. It concisely describes, in bourgeois language, the situation of Israel today. The Zionist state stands against the Arab masses (Asia, barbarism) because if is linked life and death to imperialism. As revolutionary socialists, our rejection of Zionism is profound and basic. We have adhered to this rejection ever since we began to organize ourselves into political formations in order to advance the struggle for the socialist revolution in our region. Through their anti-Zionist position, the Jews among us represent the best of the revolutionary and democratic traditions of the Jewish masses throughout the world. Through their anti-Zionist position, the Arabs among us represent not only the aspirations of the Arab masses for national and social liberation, but also the best of the spirit and traditions of tolerance that were enjoyed by the Jews who lived among the Arab peoples in the past. Together, Jews and Arabs, we constitute a single bloc, which we put forward as an example and which we point to as the only alternative to the present situation in which Jews and Arabs pay in blood for occupation and oppression, discrimination and expulsion. In proclaiming this, we say in fact that the resolution of the General Assembly does not concern us. For what would have happened if the General Assembly had ruled otherwise on the question of Zionism? Would we have changed our views on Zionism? Absolutely not. Especially since among both the odversaries and defenders of Zionism in the General Assembly we find representatives of governments that make exploitation and oppression, discrimination and even racism, the basis of their policies. At the same time, there is no doubt that the General Assembly resolution expresses the fact that Zionism is increasingly being laid bare and exposed and that its good old days are of an end. And it is the Zionists themselves more than anyone else who have contributed to this. Through their words and through their deeds. We base our opposition to Zionism on the fact, among others, that Zionism implies the establishment of a Jewish state in violation of the human and national rights of the Arab people of Palestine. And it is a fact that every step taken by Zionism in this country implied the expropriation of the Palestinians" land and their expulsion from their homeland. The Zionists themselves proclaimed their intentions when they arrived in this country: "the conquest of Hebrew labor, the conquest of the land, the constitution of an entirely Jewish society. " It so happened that they purely and simply denied the facts and spoke of a "land without people for a people without land. Zionism implies discrimination by one national group against another. Zionism implies a privileged situation for Jews in Israel and throughout the whole world and simultaneously transforms the Palestinians under its power into second-class citizens. Look, for example, at the famous "law of return, which accords automatic Israeli citizenship to any Jew in the world, while the Palestinian masses are still denied the right to return to their homeland. Look, for example, at the statutes of the of the Jewish Agency, drafted in 1929 and still in effect today: "The land has been acquired as Jewish property and shall remain the inalienable property of the Jewish people and shall not be fransmittable. The Agency she encourage agricultural colonization based on Jewish labor, and in all enterprises that it carries out or ercourages, it shall be a principle to employ Jewish le bor." Look, for example, of the policy of confiscer of Arab lands and their transfer into Jewish hands -policy common to all governments of Israel from tablishment of the Jewish state to today. It was nor was it any other anti-Zionist, who coined the