Musa Kazim al-Husayni (1850-1934). Reproduced from http://www.passia.org with permission (Mahmoud Abu Rumieleh, Webmaster). Wikicommons. Some rights reserved.I am a Jewish, Israeli Zionist. I live on a farm in the Negev region of Israel. I have a master's degree in politial science and international relations and am a retired English teacher in several Israeli high schools including two years at a Bedouin high school. I have been and remain a farmer for the past 42 years.
I have been following the interchange between Mary Davis and Jonathan Rosenhead. Their argument seems to have grown out of the charges of anti-Semitism leveled at the British Labor Party. However the discussion has expanded into an evaluation of Zionism and the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. In both writers a serious flaw has appeared in their writings which, in my opinion, should call into question any conclusions they may have drawn and more importantly, leads to a certain intellectual error about the source of anti-Semitism in the British Labor Party and elsewhere. This flaw is that both writers in their own way have left the Palestinians and Palestinian nationalism out of the discussion. This has led to some rather odd developments in the discussion.
For instance, the latest contribution by Rosenhead questions whether or not states have a right to exist. He treats this issue as if such a right was asserted by the Zionist movement. In fact the issue did not arise from the Zionists at all, but was a response to the Arab nationalist and later Palestinian nationalist assertion that a Jewish state does not have a right to exist. This denial of a Jewish state’s right to exist is specifically stated in the PLO Charter article 20 which reads:
