Professor Takriti discusses the fact that the Balfour Declaration was opposed by Edwin Montagu, the only Jewish member of the British Cabinet in 1917, and by most British Jews. Montagu circulated three papers to his Cabinet colleagues - the second contains a valuable list of prominent British Jews who, like himself, opposed Zionism. They included Rufus Isaacs (Lord Reading) and three prominent members of the Rothschild family. As Professor Takriti says, these papers are worth reading. Montagu considered that Judaism was a religion, not a nationalism. And he strongly criticised Zionism as anti-semitic.

Is Jordan a colonial settler state?

I so much appreciate Makdisi Street. I learned a lot from Abdel Razzaq Takriti's conversation.

A very insightful conversation. I wish it had lasted longer, there was so much more I wanted to learn. Thank you

Best podcast ever! I love this show so much ❤

Thank you, looking forward to Part 2

what about giving Palestinians Jordanian citizenship, so they could vote there? They would live in Israel.

I realize it was only part 1! Relief!

Thank you...a part of history that I didn't even know. Its quite amazing, and perhaps not given its colonial mentality, the role that u.s. played in setting up Palestine as subservient to israel. Obviously, israel needed to be set up to be the u.s. watchdog (or attack dog).

Excellent discussion! Thank you

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This was excellent analysis

Abdelrazak showed a top level of analysis of the cultural and geopolitical issues of the settlers' colonialism nature of Israel.

The British didn’t want a lot of poor Jews to settle in England.

As a Jewish descendant I like to think of Jews in celebration. Not as victims . Jews survived 3000 years unlike many others who are not here today to tell their story because they’re exiled because they migrated because they adapted and because they stayed relevant and Important to societies. Unlike many many other second and third class citizens and slaves 1000 500 and 100years ago, Jews were special in the sense they managed to take on important positions of lobby with the powers to be , from kings to presidents. In a world where Catholicism in the name of a single God committed many atrocities around the entire world and committed genocide to many peoples, somehow Jews managed to survive and hold on to their believes, their values their culture.

Thank you for this materialist analysis of the Arab states' evolving attitude towards the Palestinian cause, as an effective antidote to Rashid Khalidi's psychologising 'great men of history' theory (i.e. 'Nasser was a hypocrite') in one of your earlier episodes...

Thank you very much for this profound discussion on the colonization of Palestine.

Good point about UN and Wester perspective on partition. But, isn't that where "human right's came from? Can you have human rights without settler colonialism? Today, it seems as though Gaza and West Bank are colonies in this sense that territory is controlled by Israel.

What happened to the 900,000 Jews that lived in Arab countries,?