Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 303)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 303)

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study, only the discriminatory policies of this agency will be
analysed.
The Histadrut was not just a "labour" organization. Established by
the World Zionist Organization in 1920, the Histadrut functioned as
the most powerful political body in the colonization process. With
blank immigration certificates supplied to it by the government, the
Histadrut exercised full authority over the immigration process. It
decided who could immigrate, who should be sent to the co-operative
settlements and also who would not be admitted as an immigrant.
Far from being "egalitarian", “socialist" or "democratic" as
various writers claim, the Histadrut, in principle and in practice was
molued by racially discriminatory policies. (44) By definition, the
Histadrut excluded all non-Jewish workers from its membership. Class
and racial discrimination were at the core of the Histadrut policy of
immigration. Intended immigrants were prioritized according to a set
of categories established by it. While "a free hand", to use the words
of the Investigating Committee into the Histadrut's Immigration
Policies, was given to capitalist settlers, restrictions were placed
on prorer classes. An investigation of the Histadrut's policy of
immigration revealed that settlers in the agricultural co-operatives
were threatened by the Histadrut that unless they paid back loans
given to them,they would be replaced by other settlers. (45)
A vital criterion in the Histadrut's policy of immigration was also
the ideological or political creed of the settler. (46) Writing on
this issue, Simpson observes: " In the great majority of cases the
immigrant would have no chance of a permit, unless he were persona
grata. (47) The “persona grata", as the Chief Immigration Officer
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