The increasingly clerical-Fascist character of the Israeli state and its inexorable march to economic ruin and sharpening class struggle present ever-richer material for our educational work. Anti-Israel sentiment is on the increase in the US (public reaction to hostage crisis, for example), and anti-Zionist educational work should be stepped up.
It is even possible that the Establishment media shall assist us to a certain extent at some future time when the ruling strata deem it necessary to soften up U.S. public opinion, as well as the Israeli public, in pressing for a Palestinian “settlement.”
Palestinian solidarity work in the U.S. must be viewed as a component part of the US political movement. In pursuing the cause of Palestinian self-determination, we have an obligation to raise the level of political understanding of the American
people on a wide range of issues, to help develop its anti-imperialist consciousness, and particularly to conduct our work among those sectors that shall prove to be in the forefront of the struggle for qualitative changes in the American political-economic structure.
Linking Zionism and Israeli expansionism to apartheid and the South African regime becomes ever more important as the crisis in South Africa intensifies. This work should constitute a
permanent and substantial proportion of all our Palestinian solidarity work.
