Haim Hanegbi

Haim Hanegbi
Born
Haim Nissim Bajayo

1935
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
Died2 March 2018(2018-03-02) (aged 82–83)
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
OccupationJournalist

Haim Hanegbi (1935–2018) was a Palestinian Jewish leftist political activist. He was a journalist and writer and a cofounder of the dissident group Matzpen.

Early life and education

He was born Haim Nissim Bajayo in Jerusalem in 1935.[1][2] His grandfather, Haim Bajayo, was the last rabbi in Hebron.[1][3]

Hanegbi was a graduate of Hebrew University.[4]

Career and activities

Hanegbi worked for the news magazine HaOlam HaZeh which was led by Uri Avnery.[4] Hanegbi was one of the founders of the socialist and anti-Zionist group, Matzpen, which was established in 1962.[3][5] He established a committee consisting of Hebronite Jews to stop settlements in Hebron in 1967.[6] He became the spokesperson for the Israeli Radical Left when other Matzpen founders, Aki Orr and Moshé Machover, left Israel and settled in London following the Six-Day War in 1967.[2] Hanegbi published articles in different media outlets including MERIP.[7]

Views

Hanegbi was a supporter of the two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict until the late summer of 2003 arguing that it was the only solution to the conflict.[8] Then, he supported the one-state solution on a binational basis concerning the conflict.[8] The model he advocated included a federation between Palestinians and Israelis who would have the executive, legislative and constitutional authorities on an equal and agreed basis.[8]

Death

Hanegbi died on 2 March 2018.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Orit Bashkin (2023). "The Other Solidarity: Matzpen, the Mizrahi Question, and Palestine". In Sorcha Amy MacGregor Thomson; Pelle Valentin Olsen (eds.). Palestine in the World: International Solidarity with the Palestinian Liberation Movement. London: I.B. Tauris. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-7556-4700-2.
  2. ^ a b Lutz Fiedler (2020). Matzpen: A History of Israeli Dissidence. Translated by Jake Schneider. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 2, 11. doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451161.001.0001. ISBN 9781474451161.
  3. ^ a b Maya Haber (24 November 2014). "Conflicting Property Rights in Hebron & Jerusalem". Partners For Progressive Israel. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  4. ^ a b Joshua Blass (2015). "Imperialism and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Revisions in Matzpen's Historical Perspective". Israel Studies. 20 (1): 152. doi:10.2979/israelstudies.20.1.134.
  5. ^ Sami Shalom Chetrit (2009). Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews. London; New York: Routledge. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-135-20232-3.
  6. ^ a b Ahmad Jaradat (4 March 2018). "Haim Hanegbi Bajayo, the Palestinian Hebronite Jew". International Middle East Media Center. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  7. ^ "The class nature of Israel". WorldCat. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  8. ^ a b c Ilan Pappé (September 2008). "The one Palestine: past, present and future perspectives". Nebula. Vol. 5, no. 3.