Monday, November 21, 2011

Hebrew Labor

"But the interrogation revealed that Meir Ettinger, 19, had a completely different goal in mind. Ettinger, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar and a grandson of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, said he was investigating on behalf of a project called Hebrew Labor, whose goal is "to warn the public" against buying from businesses that employ Arabs."  This racist, Nazi-like practice is as old as the Zionist movement.  For more information, you need to read this by my colleague in graduate school: 
Proppaganda and the Histadrut-Sponsored Pickets for "Hebrew Labor", 1927-1936 microforms
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Georgetown University, 1991".