The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 189)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 189)

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of Palestinian workers comes in direct contradiction with the bourgeois
consciousness known as "proletarian Zionism", aiming at creating an alter-
native proletariat that is to falsely internalize proletarian Zionism as
its own ideology.
As the “conquest of land" was mainly the task of the JNF, the "conquest
of labor" was mainly the task of the Histadrut. Together, the JNF and the
Histadrut constituted the two executive arms of the Jewish Agency which
functioned as the embryonic superstructure of the Yishuv, responsible for Ali-
ya mobilization the world over and its absorption in Palestine: meaning, in
practice, "conquest of labor" and "conquest of land". The unity of these
two tasks and their institutional mechanisms is articulated in the consti-
tution of the Jewish Agency, as documented below by the Royal Institute of
International Affairs:
"Two principles of Zionist colonization, both incorporated in
the constitution of the Jewish Agency, are especially resented
by the Arabs. These are: (i) the principle that Jewish pro-
perty is inalienable; no Zionist settler may dispose of his
lease to anyone but a Jew; (ii) the principle carefully safe-
guarded by the powerful Jewish Federation of Labour, that only
Jewish labor may be employed in Zionist colonies. The net re-
sult is that, when the Jewish National Fund makes a purchase,
the Arabs lose not only the land itself but also any chance of
being employed on this land." 78
The fanatic commitment of the Histadrut to create an exclusive Jewish
proletariat is articulated in its interpretation of the "conquest of labor":
in terms of prohibiting Jewish employers from employing other than Jewish
labor; but also in that the Histadrut "vigorously advocated the principle
of Jewish labor only in Jewish-owned economic enterprise." /9 In practice,
the latter means prohibiting Jewish labor from working in British or Arab
owned enterprises. One of the implications of such practice may easily be
the further control over Jewish labor by the Histadrut; as the Histadrut

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