The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 198)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 198)

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assistance given by the Kupat Holim, and for the spirit in which
it is given. Many times, a whole village has been won over to
the Confederation because a child of a fellah has been helped by
the Kupat Holim..." 94
Other devices used for winning Arabs to the Histadrut Confederation
were the establishment of a Savings and Loan Society, Histadrut Socializa-
tion Clubs for joint sport activities, etc. The co-optation element impli-
cit in the Histadrut's decision and actual effort to organize Arab labor
becomes more exposed as one notices the coincidence of the Histadrut initi-
ative with the development of incipient Communist political .formations in
Palestine.?>
By 1944, the total number of organized Arab workers was about 16,500.7°
The imperative of organizing Arab labor in order to eliminate the threat
of the poorly-paid unorganized workers to the organized Jewish workers and
to contain the emerging militant Arab labor movement, have, in turn, gener-
ated further contradictions: growing economic and political demands which
are not likely to be met by the general Federation of Jewish Workers in
Palestine, as they were incompatible with the Histadrut's reason for being,
namely, the absolute commitment to form an exclusively Jewish proletariat,
and a Jewish social formation in Palestine. Moreover, financial and produc-
tive capital at the disposal of the Histadrut comes from Jewish philanthropy
and immigrants and, therefore, is already earmarked exclusively for Jewish
settlement efforts; for Aliyah absorption.”
The only faction in the Zionist movement which explicitly denounced the
exclusionist policies of the Histadrut with regard to the boycott of Arab
jabor and the separatist organization of Arab and Jewish labor is Hashomer
Hatzair (the Young Guard).
Hashomer Hatzair, like the Histadrut, belonged to Poalie-Tzion (Work-

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