Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
The European Left and the Jewish Question, 1848-1992
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 283-299
Keywords:
Left-wing extremists History
;
Six Day War, 1967 Influence
;
Anti-Zionism History
;
Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Arab-Israeli conflict Influence
;
Arab-Israeli conflict Case studies Public opinion
Abstract:
The paper analyses the anti-Zionist activism of the French radical Left through the demonstrations and violence that were perpetrated by the extreme Left in France in the 1960s and 1970s. Trotskyist and Maoist movements, such as the Ligue Communiste and the Gauche Prolétarienne, played an important role on the redefinition of the figure of the Jews in the Left in France. The Arab-Israeli conflict helped them build the image of Israeli soldiers and the State of Israel as an enemy to be fought both in the Middle East and on French soil. Such a representation of Israel and the Jews was shared by another part of the French Left in the 1960s and 1970s, the Christian Left, close to the newspaper Témoignage Chrétien and the “second left” like the PSU (Parti Socialiste Unifié). These groups took the side of the Palestinians, and portrayed them as martyrs of the Jews. The Christian Left also supported anti-Zionist actions, and Zionism was perceived as a new form of colonialism (following the seminal article of French orientalist Maxime Rodinson “Israël, fait colonial?” published in 1967).
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