IS THERE A BOOK ON LABOUR LEFT ZIONISM IN THE FORTIES?
Paul Anderson writes:
The one thing Orwell really disagreed with Tribune about in 1946-49 was its enthusiastic support for unlimited emigration of European Jews to Palestine and creation of a Jewish state by partition. (Orwell thought Ernest Bevin's policy of keeping the lid on Jewish emigration and resisting partition was much more sensible.) I'm familiar with the raw material from the period, memoirs etc but can't find a book on the Labour left and Zionism in the 1940s. Should this be my next stupid idea (after finishing the long-overdue book on the British left and the Soviet Union)?
Paul Anderson writes:
The one thing Orwell really disagreed with Tribune about in 1946-49 was its enthusiastic support for unlimited emigration of European Jews to Palestine and creation of a Jewish state by partition. (Orwell thought Ernest Bevin's policy of keeping the lid on Jewish emigration and resisting partition was much more sensible.) I'm familiar with the raw material from the period, memoirs etc but can't find a book on the Labour left and Zionism in the 1940s. Should this be my next stupid idea (after finishing the long-overdue book on the British left and the Soviet Union)?
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A very interesting topic and well worth writing about - and if you did tackle it, I'd suggest branching out to cover the 1930s as well. I'd long thought that, while Israel had certainly earned the right to exist, if I'd been around in the 30s or 40s I wouldn't have supported its creation. Then I read some speeches by Harry Snell, Labour's leader in the Lords in the late 30s, and found myself quite convinced by the case he put forward.
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: June 15, 2006
: June 15, 2006
Have you contacted Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) to ask what info they have?
# posted by : July 04, 2006
: July 04, 2006 
I wonder how Orwell felt (or if he knew) about the other refugees that built Israel, those indigenous to the Middle East, who fled or were booted from emerging Muslim nations. Today, they, and their kids make up the majority of Israel's population.
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