The Hamas attack on Israel and the consequential bombardment of Gaza by Israel has not only triggered a heated debate over the Palestinian issue but also exposed the hypocrisy of Western ruling.
Despite brilliant work on the question of Palestine from Marxists, often Arab or anti-Zionist Jewish, many on the left continue to have an inadequate understanding of Zionism. In this essay, I attempt to offer a Marxist examination of Zionism and some of its essential features: its völkisch character, its settler colonial character, and its relation to imperialism.
In the latest article in our series Nakba75: the roots of Israeli apartheid, Shabbir Lakha looks at what we mean by describing Israel as US Imperialism’s ‘watchdog’ state in the Middle East
The series so far has explained the origins of Zionism and the foundations of the state of Israel rooted in settler colonialism and imperial conquest.