Questions:
1. Pages 409-410: Who were the Canaanites and what kind of Israeli culture did they advocate?
Flag of the "Canaanites"
2. Page 410: Why and how did some high-ranking Israeli government officials think that Jewish immigration should be restricted?
3. Page 410: What does the Israeli Law of Return state? What rationale did David Ben-Gurion give for the passing of this law? David Ben-Gurion's address to the Knesset on the Law of Return can be found on pages 711-712 of The Jew in the Modern World and the law itself is on page 713.
4. Page 410: Why was political and cultural integration of Holocaust survivors into Israeli society so difficult for them?
5. Who were the Middle Eastern Jews who immigrated to Israel? How were they regarded by government officials, and how were they treated?
For information on the immigration from 1948-1952, see this article - http://israelsdocuments.blogspot.co.il/2013/04/immigrants-to-israel-1948-1952.html. From May 15, 1948 to the end of 1952, 738,891 Jews had immigrated to Israel. (In 1948, there were about 600,000 Jews in mandatory Palestine, so in four years the population of Israel had more than doubled).
6. Page 411: What were the causes of the Wadi Salib riots in 1959? For more information, see this article in Haaretz - July 9, 1959: Wadi Salib riots.
Demands of the Wadi Salib demonstrators:
Individual freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, an end to discrimination, free high school education for gifted students, ensuring that every person has the means to support himself and eradication of poverty.
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| The magazine "Ha-Olam Ha-Zeh" (This world). The headline reads: "What set off the rebellion of the Moroccans? The Haifa disturbances" |
7. Who were the Israeli Black Panthers and what were their demands?
See documents from the Israeli State Archives - http://www.archives.gov.il/ArchiveGov_Eng/Publications/ElectronicPirsum/BlackPanther/
another article, this one about the reported remark of then Prime Minister Golda Meir that the Panthers "weren't nice" - http://israelsdocuments.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-black-panthers-arent-nice.html
From the Jerusalem Post, a retrospective analysis of the Black Panther movement: http://www.jpost.com/Features/In-Thespotlight/This-Week-in-History-The-original-social-protest
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| "End poverty! The Black Panther Organization" |
The Canaanites were a group of that imagined an empire predating Jeudism and Islam that had existed in what they called the "Land of Kedam". The Isreal they envisioned would be made up of both Jews and Arabs but with no deviding lines over religion. In their minds religion was a midevial idea that limited people from discovering new sciences. Interestingly many idividuals who were part of the Canaanites were intelectuals, with professions as poets, authors, journalists, scupters and educators. Interestingly despite the influence on Canaanite ideology by fasism the group protested against the expushion of Arabs. They claimed that sisnce both Jews and Arabs were part of the Land of Kaden expushion of either group only could cause a migration from one area to another. Many rejected the ideas of the Canaanites, but their idea of a Isreal without the ideas of the Diaspora did apeal to many.
ReplyDeleteAfter its creation the state of Isreal recieved an abudance of requests from survivors of the Holocaust and refugees seeking to find new homes in addition to the requests of many Jews now living in various parts of the world. Many officials in the Isreali government wished for these immigrants to have to face some form of screening process to determine who whould be a benifit to the state. Eliezer Kaplan stated that "We need workers and fighters." while others advocated similier ideas with only those who could preform a useful profession being admited. Others argued that immigrants from certain countries should recieve priority over others. There were a number of reasons why Isreali leaders were worried about incoming immirgrants such as where their political alleigance lay, immigrants culture and the strain a massive influx of new peoples would have on an untried and untested system. in 1950 however the "Law of Return" was passed which allowed any Jew to immigrate to Isreal for the next four years, over 700,000 took the opertunity.