Zionism as an intellectual posture and a political project: an approach from the Palestinian perspective
Main Article Content
Abstract
This article is divided into two parts. In the first, it addresses the central principles of Zionism as an intellectual elaboration that responds negatively to the Jewish question in Europe. It argues that the negative character of this set of ideas resides precisely in the communion of foundations with the very problem it intends to respond to, anti-Semitism; further, it aligns with an imperialist, colonial and two-way racist perspective, particularly European. For this, it is based on the conceptions of founding authors of the Zionist ideology, and political Zionism, Moses Hess and Theodor Herzl, and of authors who critically examine both the theoretical conception and the political realization of Zionism, that is, the colonization of Palestine and the foundation of the State of Israel. In the second part, I present the novel Return to Haifa, by Ghassan Kanafani, which contributes to concretize the colonial and intrinsically racist sense of the Zionist project and its practical realization. The text assumes the broad point of view of taking a position on a social problem.
Downloads
Article Details
![Creative Commons License](http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Works are released under a Creative Commons License (Creative Commons 4.0. Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual) which provides unrestricted use, copy and redistribution in any medium or format and remix, transform and build upon the original work properly cited. The Creative Commons License stipulates that: "You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work)."
References
Adil, A. A. (1989). Theme and technique in Ghassan Kanafani’s short fiction (Tese de doutorado em Filosofia). Faculty of the Graduate College of the Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, EE. UU.
Amnesty International (2022). Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/5141/2022/en/
Davis, U. (2003). Apartheid Israel. Possibilities for the Struggle Within. Londres/Nova York: Zed Books.
Flakser, D. (1962). “Moses Hess – First of Modern Zionists”. Israel Horizons (pp. 13-16). https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/flakser-hess-1.pdf
Heller, A. (2015). Netanyahu causes uproar by linking Palestinians to Holocaust. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/61ead35a427a408e9d93d43f41cfa064
Herzl, Th. (1997). O Estado Judeu (Dagoberto Mensch, Trad.). São Paulo: Consulado Geral de Israel. http://www.bibliologista.com/2015/10/o-estado-judeu-de-theodor-herzl.html
Kanafani, G. (2015). A revolta de 1936-1939 na Palestina (G. Rodrigues e F. Bosco, Trad. a partir da versão inglesa). São Paulo: Sundermann.
Kanafani, G. (2022a). On Zionist Literature (M. Najib, Trad.). Oxford: Ebb Books.
Kanafani, G. (2022b). Retorno a Haifa (J.A Fayad, Trad.). Em Y. J. Fayad (Org.), Ghassan Kanafani – Anticolonialismo e alternativa socialista na Palestina (pp. 387-432). São Paulo: Fedayin Editora.
Misleh, S. (2017). Al Nakba. Um estudo sobre a catástrofe palestina. São Paulo: Editora Sundermann.
Tragtenberg, M. (2003). A dialética do sionismo. Revista Espaço Acadêmico, 2(22), 1-10. https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/EspacoAcademico/article/view/42253/751375139240