Susie Barry (Dec. 1928 – Dec. 2022)
A brief biographical summary of the long life of Susie Barry, born as Sultana (aka Malka) Canetti in Turkey on 15 December 1928.
Matzpen’s Website: Users’ Data 2020
Map of users of the Hebrew, Arabic and English Matzpen sites by country of origin (144 countries); Detailed data of the leading 40 countries; The 10 most visited pages in English.
Pourquoi Israël est un Etat raciste ‒ Moshé Machover
L’Etat d’Israël est structurellement raciste, c’est un Etat qui pratique l’Apartheid, selon la définition officielle de ce terme par les Nations Unies.
Zionism and opposition to it within Israel – Podcast interviews by Working Class History
Double podcast episode on the history of Zionism and opposition to it within Israel, in conversation with former members of the Socialist Organization in Israel – Matzpen: Moshé Machover, Haim Scortariu and Udi Sivosh.
Why Israel is a Racist State ‒ Moshé Machover
Israel’s racism is rooted in its nature as a settler state. Uprooting colonialist racism requires a change of regime, decolonisation – which in the case of Israel means de-Zionisation.
Why Israel is a Racist State ‒ Moshé Machover [PDF]
[Download the PDF file - IsraelRacism - machover 2018]
Skeletons under the Hilton Hotel in Tel Aviv – Ahmad Massarweh
An eye witness testimony about the fate of the Moslem cemetary by the beach of Tel Aviv.
Aviva Ein-Gil: Matzpen Was an Excellent School ‒ Interviewed by Eran Torbiner
Hebrew with English subtitles: Life in this region requires mutuality. What happened here in 2011, I totally relate it to the awakening in the Arab world and the hope that something would change there, that there'd be democracy, openness. Here on Rothschild Blvd. there was a place called Tahrir Square. A success in the Arab world would’ve had a direct effect here.
Hebron in my Heart – Eran Torbiner’s Film
Haim Hanegbi, one of Matzpen's founding members, has special ties to Hebron, where his grandfather served as the last Rabbi of the local Jewish community, until 1935.
Hebrew self-determination – Moshé Machover
Accession of the Hebrew nation to a future socialist federation of the Arab East can only be voluntary. Moreover, it would be a grave error on the part of socialists to condone, let alone advocate, attempts at a forcible accession. But this means that Hebrew accession to the federation would occur by exercising self-determination.
Giyora Neumann: J’ai Dit Non à L’armée Israélienne
J'avais 17 ans en 1971 quand j'ai été emprisonné pour avoir refusé de faire mon service militaire et afrirmé mon opposition à I'occupation des territoires palestiniens. C'est sans doute l'acte de ma vie qui a le plus de sens !
The Contaminated Paradise – Nira Yuval-Davis
The memories of the summer vacations she spent as a child with her family in Tantura were shattered when when she realized how the village had been conqered, destroyed and emptied of its inhabitants in 1948.
Rami Heilbronn: from 1968 to global civil society ‒ Eran Torbiner
Israelis and Palestinians exposing together the lies of zionism and Israeli propaganda.
Humanity needs whistle-blowers ‒ Rami Heilbronn
Rami Heilbronn, during a picket in London, in solidarity with the Israeli nuclear whisle-blower Mordechai Vanunu and against nuclear weapons.
Compass Pointer
Who was Anthony Compass, who wrote a letter to a local newspaper in Cornwall, and what could be his connection to the Socialist Organization in Israel — Matzpen?
Jordan’s Road to “Democracy” ‒ by Akram Kand and Jayne Peters
With the worsening economic situation in Jordan, the population is being and will be pushed into one of two camps: Islamic fundamentalism or socialism. So far, Islamic fundamentalism is the more popular of the two. Such is the traditional stronghold of Islam in Jordan, that without even questioning the viability of this solution, people blindly accept the so-called Word of Islam.
For a Democratic, Secular State of Palestine; a Reply to Moshe Machover ‒ by Tony Greenstein
The fact that Zionism continues to posit the Hebrew speaking Jewish people of Israel as part of a world Jewish nation testifies to the unique nature of both the Zionist project and the essentially artificial nature of Israeli nationhood. Politically and economically the basis of Israeli nationalism is the sponsorship by imperialism and the consequent attempts by Israel to dominate and subjugate the Palestinian people within and the Arab peoples without. This is the material basis of Israeli Jewish nationalism.
Israel and the Freedom of Migration
During all those years when Israel demanded of the Soviet Union to allow Jews to emigrate from there to Israel, all Israeli governments consistently denied the right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland.
Iran after Khomeini ‒ by Maryam Poya
Revolutionary or progressive ideas cannot be derived from dogmas that claim divine origin and include so many reactionary and oppressive tenets, not least those concerning women. Religious ideology is therefore a false consciousness, which mystifies the potential revolutionary consciousness of the oppressed and has often provided a cover for the manoeuvres of the ruling classes.
Holding the Green Line: Israeli Ecological Imperialism ‒ by Les Levidow
In 1982 the West Bank's entire hydrological system was integrated into the Israeli national water company Mekorot. A suppressed report, prepared a few years ago, saw this integration of water systems as an obstacle to Palestinian independence: "It may thus become practically and politically impossible to sever the water administration of the Occupied Territories from those of Israel".