E87: Class struggle in Palestine, part 2
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🗓️ 12 June 2024
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Summary
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In this episode, we spoke to Palestinian scholar and activist, Leena Dallasheh. Her research focuses on the history of Palestine/Israel, with a particular interest in Palestinians who became citizens of Israel in 1948. For more info on Leena and her research, you can check her website.
Be sure to also check out 'Falastin: A Digital Monument' by Collecteurs, of which these episodes are a part.
More information, including sources, further reading, images and eventually a transcript are on the webpage for this episode: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-87-class-struggle-in-palestine/
Acknowledgements
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- Edited by Tyler Hill
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to part two of our double episode on the class struggle in Mandate Rule Palestine. |
| 0:06.0 | If you haven't listened to part one yet, then I recommend you go back and listen to that first. |
| 0:10.0 | At the matina, just uppen alz podcast is brought to you by our patron supporters. |
| 0:37.0 | Our supporters fund our work and in return |
| 0:39.1 | get exclusive early access to podcast episodes without ads, bonus episodes, free and discounted |
| 0:45.3 | merch and other content. For example, our patron supporters can listen to an exclusive bonus episode |
| 0:51.6 | now in which we discuss the curious relationship of British |
| 0:54.7 | authorities to the Palestinian Workers Movement, as well as the Labour Movement in Nazareth |
| 0:59.2 | before, during and immediately after the Nakbah and Zionist dishonesty in relation to the |
| 1:04.6 | slogans of the pro-Palestine movement. Join us or find out more at patreon.com slash working |
| 1:10.2 | class history. Link in the show notes. |
| 1:13.2 | These episodes form part of the Palestine Digital Exhibition with Collectors as part of Chapter 2, |
| 1:19.1 | a collaboration with over 300 volunteers in Palestine and around the world. |
| 1:23.9 | You can check out the exhibition on the link in the show notes. |
| 1:27.3 | As a content note for our listeners, this episode contains some descriptions of war crimes. |
| 1:33.2 | At the end of part one, we finished with Palestinian scholar Lena Delache's discussion |
| 1:37.4 | of the crushing defeat of the Great Revolt in 1939, which devastated Palestinian civil society, |
| 1:47.1 | killing, wounding, imprisoning or exiling about 10% of the adult male population. |
| 1:50.7 | The Palestinian labour movement was also affected, essentially contracting back to its original |
| 1:55.4 | base in Haifa, where even there, it remained largely dormant. |
| 1:59.7 | However, with the outbreak of World War II, things changed drastically. |
| 2:04.8 | In 1940s, there's a massive prelitarization in Palestine that is tied to British wartime interests. |
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