Zionism: Messianic colonialism
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Moshé Machover Recently I was watching live news from Jerusalem, which exemplified in a frightening way the subject of this article[1]This article is based on the talk given…
Moshé Machover Recently I was watching live news from Jerusalem, which exemplified in a frightening way the subject of this article[1]This article is based on the talk given…
Amnesty International’s moralistic condemnation is totally inadequate. As Moshé Machover has long argued, anachronistic settler-colonialism is the root of Israel’s racist apartheid. Only de-Zionisation can end it Amnesty…
Perry Anderson Since the turn of the century, the Arab states have come to constitute a zone for Western military intervention without parallel in the post-Cold War world—us…
Tony Greenstein Israel’s third general election in a year has shown a decisive shift to the Zionist right, but whether it will be sufficient to enable Binyamin Netanyahu…
Moshé Machover The relation between Zionism and Judaism (the Jewish religion) is paradoxical and complex. In its early days, Zionism was apparently a thoroughly secular political movement. Apparently….
Adam Shatz A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev Head of Zeus, 804 pp, £30.00, August, ISBN 978 1 78954 462 6 David Ben-Gurion, the founder of the…
Moshé Machover I would like to deal with two aspects of Israeli politics: the attitude to Iran and the internal situation. Common to both parts is the intertwining…
Moshé Machover. Binyamin (‘Bibi’) Netanyahu’s motive for calling an early election to the Knesset (Israel’s parliament), one year before the end of its term, was purely personal: it…
Adam Shatz. Israel’s legislative elections on 9 April were a tribute to Binyamin Netanyahu’s transformation of the political landscape. At no point were they discussed in terms of…
Edo Konrad. Tuesday’s election results were obvious to anyone paying attention. Although Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and rival Benny Gantz’s Blue and White won the same…
Tony Greenstein. Published by Weekly Worker June 14, 2018 Gideon Levy is one of the few, lonely voices of sanity in an Israel that has veered towards the…
Ramzy Baroud Posted on ZCommunications February 17, 2018. Despite massive sums of money spent to channel public opinion in the United States in favor of Israel, unmistakable trends…
Ramzy Baroud. Posted on Znet, January 5, 2018. The Israeli government is planning a series of measures aimed at fully denying Palestinians their legal rights in Jerusalem and…
Lisa Gleeson. Posted on Green Left October 14, 2107 A member of the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) for the ruling Likud party, Anat Berko has presented Prime Minister Benjamin…
Tony Greenstein, Weekly Worker. The overthrow of Zionism is incompatible with a Hebrew nation. Moshé Machover, who I count as a friend and comrade, is a legend in…
Kamran Nayeri. This article first appeared in Forum for Liberation on March 1, 2017. In discussions and debates about the “Arab-Israeli conflict” the questions of Palestinian right to…
Moshé Machover, Weekly Worker. In the mid-1960s, the Socialist Organization in Israel – better known by the name of its journal, Matzpen – evolved an analysis of the…
Sergio Pérez, Pulse. Or how hawkish and dovish leftwing denialists on Syria echo hawkish and dovish Zionists on Palestine While Syrians continue to lose their lives, or struggle…
Perry Anderson, New Left Review. An informative summary of some options open to the Palestinian people [ME4Change]. Since the turn of the century, the Arab states have come…
Ramzy Baroud, Znet. Division within Palestinian society has reached unprecedented levels, becoming a major hurdle on the path of any unified strategy to end Israel’s violent occupation or…
Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, Defend Democracy Press. ISIS is a criminal organization which was created, and is used, by the USA. As for Syria, it was not only the intervention…
Moshé Machover. Weekly Worker. This is the third and final article in a short series, leading up to a discussion of a socialist position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…
Ben Ehrenreich. London Review of Books. For a glimpse into the nightmarish world of occupied Hebron read this report: I was surprised a few weeks ago to find…
Tom Mayer Monthly Review Moshé Machover, Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution. Moshé Machover is a mathematician and political activist who was born in Tel Aviv in 1936…
Moshé Machover Weekly Worker What is the meaning of Zionism today, almost 70 years after the formation of Israel, and why is it such a buzzword? Are we…
By Moshé Machover Weekly Worker The second of a three part historical analysis examines the roots and possible solution to the asymmetrical confrontation between two discrete national groups:…
By Moshé Machover Weekly Worker The Zionist colonisation of Palestine, ongoing since the turn of the 20th century, has engendered a conflict with exceptional features. In essence it…
Editorial by Perry Anderson New Left Review Since the turn of the century, the Arab states have come to constitute a zone for Western military intervention without parallel…