The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 181)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 181)
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maintained in the slogan, "boycott Arab produce". So daring and so deter-
mined to replace, not exploit, the natives, the Zionist movement tried to
mask their alien presence with the nativeness of the uprooted natives; they
wanted not to exploit the natives but rather to deny them that nativeness
and become, themselves, the natives of that land. The image, "native pro-
duct", was made applicable exclusively to the products of Jewish labor and
Jewish land, while the native produce was to be boycotted and made to dis-—
appear. This attitude with regard to denying the nativeness of the native
was most articulately expressed by the Zionist leader, Menahen Ussishkin,
in his testimony before the Jewish Agency Committee on Jewish-Arab relations
in March, 1940, where he stated:
"T favor 100% Hebrew work and Hebrew products; I favor this,
because I oppose the strengthening of the Arabs; I am against
enabling them to establish roots in the country." 64
The "boycott Arab labor" slogan was to apply not only to the "free"
laborers emerging from the Zionist "conquest of land", but also to an al-
ready proletarianized or semi-proletarianized Arab labor force. The only
Hebrew labor policy was, in effect, not only to impede the proletarianiza-
tion of the landless peasantry, to deny the mass of "free" laborers a mar-
ket for their labor power, but also to result in the deproletarianization of
the native proletariat.
An Arab proletariat in Palestine began to form with the penetration of
British foreign capital, invested mainly in public works-related construction
and in citrus plantations. Since then, citri-culture was fostered by Arab
merchant capitalists employing Arab laborers but not exactly in the frame-
work of capitalist relations of production, as their capital remained un- - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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