Episode 67: Palestine, Communism and the National Question 1920-1955 with Mohamad Kadan
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Historian Mohamad Kadan discusses the emergence of Marxism and Communist politics in Palestine from 1920 to 1955.
On today’s episode, historian Mohamad Kadan takes us on a deep dive into the emergence of Marxism and Communist politics in Palestine in the early 20th century and immediately following the Nakba - the mass ethnic cleansing and displacement of Palestinians in 1948 during the establishment of the state of Israel. Mohamad explores how questions of Palestinian anti-colonial struggle and self-determination, class, Marxist internationalism, nationalism, Zionism and imperialism shaped articulations of Marxism and on the ground Communist political organizing in Palestine. Mohamad Kadan is a PhD student in History at Rice University, focusing on global histories of Palestinians, the communist movement, and settler colonialism. His writing can be found here: https://rice.academia.edu/MohamadKadan For more reading on Communism in Palestine: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/328-the-palestine-communist-party-1919-1948 https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/hls.2010.0103 https://www.jstor.org/stable/43997993 Episode image: Palestinians raise their arms during an outdoor rally in Abou Ghosh in 1936, likely to vote to endorse the general strike that would become the longest in modern…
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