ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on how Palestinian cultural producers in Israel—largely associated with the Israeli Communist Party (ICP)—sought to position themselves and their community within the larger cultural and intellectual developments emerging during this period. It argues that they drew upon the rich international vocabularies of socialist humanism and decolonization in order to position themselves as part of a worldwide community working together to overturn the forces of exploitation and violence. The chapter also argues further that print material—especially periodicals—played a key role in circulating the voices of socialist humanism and anticolonial dissent from around the world among Palestinian citizens of Israel. It explains how the transnational political vocabularies of the 1960s were adapted to a specific Arab context, and how those Arab cultural producers contributed to the international sense of collectivity that emerged during this period.