Yes Alberto, I can help to confirm despite your sneering and dripping with cynicism comment.

The Palestine Labor League was the Arab affiliate of the Histadrut (the Zionist Labor federation) in Mandate Palestine. [c.f. Cohen, Hillel "Army of Shadows" University of California Press, 2008, p. 38]

Then there’s the following excerpt from Jane Power’s master thesis on Arab Unionization in Mandate Palestine in which she cites: Zachary Lockman, “Railway Workers and Relational History: Arabs and Jews in British-Ruled Palestine,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 35, No. 3 (July 1993),
p. 608:

The Histadrut chose two means of cultivating relation-
ships with Arab workers. In July 1925, soon after the Arab
railroad workers left the Histadrut railroad union and
formed PAWS, the Histadrut opened a “General Workers Club
for Arab workers in Haifa. Offering literacy classes, sports, and cooperatives, the club by the late 1920s enrolled about a hundred members. In 1927, meanwhile, the Histadrut assigned an organizer to begin forming the Arab segment of the proposed binational federation, christening the new
organization the Palestine Labor League. Retarded by the depression and interrupted by the 1929 riots, the PLL began organizing unions only in 1931. It opened its one branch of the 1930s in Jaffa in 1934.

Johng: ‘An interesting principle for liberal internationalists. It would certainly effectively end HP as a blog. After all we might have avoided a number of wars if this principle had been observed.’

Surely ditto re. Seymour’s Place?

as well as this “anti zionist” protest in Marks and Sparks of “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”

was last night charged with the murders of Sappers Patrick Asimkar and Mark Quinsey in Antrim.

Civil rights in the USA, and the rights of Native Americans, was of particular interest to people in France and there is a vast literature that testifies to that. Curiously, until recently there appears to have been virtually no French interest in minorities in France (including the DOM-TOM). I wonder which other countries could be described as behaving like that?

There is a mainstream anti-Zionism, and NEVER, EVER will you hear them condoning suicide bombings. It’s the anti-Zionism of Abunimah, Weiss, Rashidi, Klug, Karon, Said.

Indeed. Tony Karon makes the obligatory noises but obliviates that by saying ” is Israel really any more likely to adhere to international law by withdrawing to its 1967 borders if the Palestinians were using non-violent methods of resistance? Becuase that really is the issue — the occupation, not the methods used to resist it.” Said said they were “reprehensible” and then went on to justify them. Interesting to see Klug cited as mainstream; it shows how much effort is put in to providing Jewish fig-leaves against charges of anti-semitism.

There don’t seem to be that many anti-Zionists, Qaradawi, Mahathir Mohamed, Shuman, Ahmedinejad, all our friends at Hamas etc. who don’t live in the US or Western countries where incitement to terrorism is an offence who don’t support it. Not forgetting their friends including a Gorgeous, generous politician who thinks it’s “morally justified” to use a suicide bomb to murder people. Maybe they aren’t mainstream.

In ‘Army of Shadows’, Cohen demonstrates the many roles that accommodating Palestinians played for the Yishuv, the pre-state Jewish community in the Holy Land. They provided labor (…)

Oh, I see… but I have a little question.

Those Palestinians who helped the Yishuv by providing labor — were they allowed to join the Histadrut? I’m almost sure they were, because the Zionists wanted to live in harmony with the native Arab population, and incorporating those who helped the Zionist cause into the trade union federation was the right thing to do. But can someone confirm this?