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Tikva Honig-Parnass

Tikva Honig-Parnass (Hebrew: תקוה הוניג-פרנס) is an Israeli anti-Zionist activist.[1]

Honig-Parnass grew up in a secular Zionist milieu in Mandate Palestine, reading Marx and Rosa Luxemburg as a teenager.[1] During the 1948 Palestine war she served in the Haganah and then the Palmach, where she served in the Harel Brigade.[1] By her account, Honig-Parnass saw depopulated Palestinian villages (such as Qalunya) during the 1948 war.[1] In retrospect she describes herself as having been "brainwashed"[2] by her Zionist education: “The position we internalised pretended that we were not dealing with the development of a military force that was waiting for an opportune time to realise the Zionist plan for the conquest of the land and the dispossession of its Palestinian inhabitants, but rather a ‘revolutionary army’ of the oppressed.”[1]

A Marxist since adolescence, Honig-Parnass worked as the Knesset secretary for Mapam in 1954-55.[3]

Honig-Parnass came to view Zionism as a colonial enterprise in the early 1960s, through her involvement with Matzpen.[1]

In the 1970s and 1980s she was involved with various Israeli left-wing groups, including the Bir Zeit University Solidarity Committee and Dai la Kibush (End the Occupation).[4] In 1987 she joined the Alternative Information Center, whose English-language publication, News from Within, she edited for 13 years.[4] Over the course of the 1990s Honig-Parnass grew increasingly critical of the AIC's political line, and she was fired in 2000.[4] With a former colleague, Toufic Haddad, she founded a new English-language journal, Between the Lines, which shut down in 2003 due to lack of funding.[4] In 2007 Haymarket Books published a selection of articles from Between the Lines, including contributions from Marwan Barghouti, Azmi Bishara, Ilan Pappé and others.[5][6]

In 2011 Honig-Parnass published another book with Haymarket, False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine.[7]

Honig-Parnass appears in the 2013 documentary On the Side of the Road, where she discusses her experiences in the 1948 war.[8]

Honig-Parnass is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Parry, William. "De-colonising the mind – a former Zionist fighter's journey". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
  2. ^ https://mondoweiss.net/2020/12/the-land-will-sink-beneath-your-feet-a-century-of-jews-wrestling-with-zionism/
  3. ^ Yuval (2013-03-10). "Akiva Orr: A working-class hero – by Tikva Honig-Parnass". Matzpen.org/English. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
  4. ^ a b c d "Review: Between the Lines: Readings on Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. "War on Terror" by Tikva Honig-Parnass, Toufic Haddad". The Arab Studies Journal. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
  5. ^ Hagopian, Elaine C. (2008-07-01). "Review". Journal of Palestine Studies. 37 (4): 88–90. doi:10.1525/jps.2008.37.4.88. ISSN 0377-919X.
  6. ^ Haddad, Toufic; Honig-Parnass, Tikva. "Between the Lines". haymarketbooks.org. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
  7. ^ Ruebner, Josh (2013-08-01). "False Prophets of PeaceLiberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine". Journal of Palestine Studies. 42 (4): 87–88. doi:10.1525/jps.2013.42.4.87. ISSN 0377-919X.
  8. ^ https://electronicintifada.net/content/delegitimize-zionism-says-israeli-filmmaker/14009
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikva_Honig-Parnass