Talk:Palestine Communist Party

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Merger proposal

see Talk:Maki (historical political party). --15:28, 2 November 2008 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soman (talk • contribs)

Merger opposed see discussion there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.222.199.252 (talk) 23:19:25, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Offensive statement

" According to Halliday, many Christian Arabs were attracted towards the party since they, being Orthodox, felt emotional bonds with Russia."

Should be deleted. There are books on this in Arabic by the parties members. The central theme was that their churches disowned Communist members. So they were secular and without a connection to organized religion. Further, it is offensive because much of the intellectual activity of the Party was by Arab scholars and not Jewish scholars They joined because of their intellectual commitment to communism. This reads as though the Arabs joined for not because they were committed but because of religion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.222.199.252 (talk) 23:19:25, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Source Question

I apologize if my format on this is incorrect, I haven't done this before.

"Daniel Averbach, one of the founders of the party, was so brutally beaten that he went mad.[4]"

This is sourced to a "Radzisnki, 1996". No link to this source is provided. A brief search also provided no link to this source. A search for Daniel Averbach produced no information. Can a link to the cited source be presented, and if not, can the sentence either be removed or a note questioning its validity be added?

Edit was by a user that no longer exists, the edit note was as follows:

Revision as of 15:11, 24 April 2006 (edit) (undo) Constanz (talk | contribs) (hard fate of commies)

Bias suspected — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheHumbleMrJake (talk • contribs) 04:34, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks TheHumbleMrJake (talk) 04:36, 10 December 2012 (UTC) Jake — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheHumbleMrJake (talk • contribs) 04:14, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Requests

To provide more detail on what motivated the PCP to recruit more Arab members, after the first sentence of the second paragraph under the History section, I propose adding:

By this time, the Comintern began its push for greater worker unity as opposed to isolated labor union groups, such as the Histradut, whose supporters were exclusively Jewish. Coupled with The Party’s call to Arab resistance of land sales that left many displaced, the Palestine Communist Party attempted to establish an Arab base by explicitly appealing to the anti-Zionist stance held by many working class Arabs.^[1]

My second edit is to change the first sentence in the fifth paragraph to better describe the party's split in 1944:

Jewish PCP leaders began questioning their strict anti-Zionist stance and believed softening this opposition would strengthen their Jewish support in the Yishuv. However, Arab PCP members would not allow concessions to Zionism, as they opposed it in all circumstances and wanted an Arab communist party to represent the Palestinian Arab majority. In 1943 the party split, [with its Jewish members creating two smaller groups known as the Hebrew Communist Party and a structurally reformed, solely Jewish, Palestine Communist Party. During the same split, PCP] Arab members formed the National Liberation League in 1944.[6] [1] TobiasGarciaVega (talk) 02:13, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Lockman, Zachary (1996). Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine. University of California, Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520202597. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)

[1] Lockman, Zachary (1996). Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine. University of California, Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520202597. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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