The Indian Bolshevik

 The history of Israeli colonialism is some 70+ years old. Ever since the conception of Zionism. Zion is the name of the City built by David on the hills of Jerusalem. Ever since Theodor Herzl’s Modern Zionism emerged in the late 19th century in Central and Eastern Europe as a national revival movement, both in reaction to newer waves of antisemitism and as a response to Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. Soon after this, most leaders of the movement associated the main goal with creating the desired state in Palestine, then an area controlled by the Ottoman Empire. A religious variety of Zionism supports Jews upholding their Jewish identity defined as adherence to religious Judaism, opposes the assimilation of Jews into other societies, and has advocated the return of Jews to Israel as a means for Jews to be a majority nation in their state. What went wrong? In 1995, The PLO and Israel sign an interim agreement granting the Palestinians some autonomy in certain parts of the west b...

  On 25 August 1933, bourgeoise Jews who were part of Zionist German Jews held a talk with Nazis and reached an agreement - Haavara Agreement. It means transfer agreement. It was a major factor in making possible the migration of approximately 60,000 German Jews to Palestine in 1933–1939. This is a lesser-known fact. The agreement enabled rich Jews fleeing persecution under the new Nazi regime to transfer some portion of their assets to British Mandatory Palestine. Emigrants sold their assets in Germany to pay for essential goods (manufactured in Germany) to be shipped to Mandatory Palestine. This pact between Nazis and rich jews was so controversial that it was opposed by Jewish leaders within and outside the Zionist movement itself. For rich jews in Germany, the agreement offered a way to leave an increasingly hostile environment in Germany; for the Yishuv, the new Jewish community in Palestine, it offered access to both immigrant labour and economic support; for the Germans, it ...