“The Sun is Shining in Salameh”: An American Communist Observes the Nakba

IF 1.7 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Gabriel Polley
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Abstract

This paper investigates the writing of A.B. Magil, a journalist for the Communist Party of the USA. In Palestine in 1948, he witnessed the birth of the State of Israel and, correspondingly, the creation of the Palestinian refugee crisis. Magil had unfettered access to Jewish military commanders who later joined Israel’s political elite, but also to Palestinian prisoners of war and Communist politicians. He reported from recently ethnically cleansed towns and villages without seeming to recognise the enormity of what had taken place. A close study of Magil’s coverage throw into relief subsequent shifts in the Western left’s understandings of imperialism, (settler-)colonialism and resistance. After returning to the US, he continued his commentary on the Middle East, his later writings revealing how leftist sympathies for Israel were tested throughout the 1950s, including by the Suez Crisis, though without a re-evaluation of the circumstances of Israel’s creation.
《萨拉梅的阳光灿烂》:一位美国共产主义者观察灾难日
本文调查了美国共产党记者A.B.马吉尔的写作。1948年,他在巴勒斯坦见证了以色列国的诞生,也见证了巴勒斯坦难民危机的产生。马吉尔可以自由接触后来加入以色列政治精英的犹太军事指挥官,也可以接触巴勒斯坦战俘和共产主义政客。他报道了最近种族清洗的城镇和村庄,似乎没有意识到所发生的事情的严重性。对马吉尔报道的仔细研究使西方左派对帝国主义、(定居者)殖民主义和抵抗的理解发生了随后的转变。回到美国后,他继续对中东进行评论,他后来的著作揭示了左派对以色列的同情在整个20世纪50年代是如何受到考验的,包括苏伊士危机,尽管没有重新评估以色列建国的情况。
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