Re: [Marxism] The Nation magazine's shameful history of Nakba denial and support to ethnic cleansing
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Ms. Khalek ignores the significant support given to the Zionist movement, especially Labor Zionism, by Stalin. Would Israel ever have won its War of Independence without Stalin's arms from the Czech munitions factories? And then there's Ho Chi Minh, who offered Ben Gurion asylum if he had to flee. The Nation's position under Kirchwey was undoubtedly influenced by its closeness to the CP, which echoed Stalin's line. Ignoring the USSR's critical role is dishonest. On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Dennis Brasky via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/nation-magazines-shameful-history-aiding-ethnic-cleansing-palestine?utm_source=EI+readersutm_campaign=67de88c003-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGNutm_medium=emailutm_term=0_e802a7602d-67de88c003-290662377 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/sranz18%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] The Nation magazine's shameful history of Nakba denial and support to ethnic cleansing
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I don't think it's dishonest, so much as a matter of her being like a decade younger than me and not knowing all the esoterica of the postwar American left, or perhaps finding it particularly relevant. Believe it or not, kids these days do not spend their free time poring over party histories. And I don't think it's terribly flawed to critique an institution like the Nation apart from its historical context, any more than recounting the racism of, say, a university requires a blow-by-blow of how it was in the region or country as a whole. That said, you are doubtlessly correct about the influences of the CPUSA on the Nation's enthusiasm for ethnic cleansing. I once worked at a former front organization, and while the party had lost the capacity to maintain fronts long before, surviving groups were still terrified of their cranky old Zionist donors. On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Sheldon Ranz via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
