r/JewsOfConscience • u/ArmyOfMemories Jewish Anti-Zionist • Sep 27 '24

History During the first few decades of Zionist immigration to Palestine, Zionist leaders rejected ~61% of immigrant applicants on the basis of their 'economic situation'.

https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1839340554347270415
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u/ArmyOfMemories Jewish Anti-Zionist Sep 27 '24

Interesting read.

Another user also mentioned this:

https://x.com/SmakSmik/status/1839397046295674898

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u/Klutzy-Pool-1802 Ashkenazi, atheist, postZ Sep 27 '24

Wondering what the context was for a policy like this. I haven’t learned much about how Israel absorbed all the refugees in the 50’s. Do you have resources about that?

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Sep 27 '24

In the early 1950s they put the Arab Jews in concentration camps while they figured out what to do with them. When they eventually came up with a plan, it was to disperse them to border kibbutzim to act as a human shield wall against the Palestinians.

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u/ArmyOfMemories Jewish Anti-Zionist Sep 28 '24

it was to disperse them to border kibbutzim to act as a human shield wall against the Palestinians.

Have you read Yigal Levy's book, 'Israel’s Death Hierarchy: Casualty Aversion in a Militarized Democracy'?

I wrote about it here:

https://np.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/1d8ruj2/israels_death_hierarchy_casualty_aversion_in_a/

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Sep 29 '24

I haven't yet. I guess I have yet another book to add to my increasingly infinite reading list.

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u/ArmyOfMemories Jewish Anti-Zionist Sep 29 '24

I highly recommend it. I posted some interesting passages in my write-up.

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u/Klutzy-Pool-1802 Ashkenazi, atheist, postZ Sep 28 '24

Why do you choose the term “concentration camp” instead of “refugee camp”?

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Sep 29 '24

Probably because of the barbed wire, guards, and dogs.