Haim Hanegbi

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Haim Nissim Hanegbi (born March 19, 1935 as Haim Nissim Bajayo in Jerusalem ; † March 2, 2018 ) was an Israeli politician and publicist . He campaigned for an Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation and a binational state in Palestine.

Life

Hanegbi grew up as a son of the last four centuries in Palestine living Sephardic family Bajayo during the British Mandate in Jerusalem on. His grandfather, Haim Bajayo, had been one of the most respected figures in Hebron as a rabbi until the entire family fled there after the 1929 massacre . In the following years, Hanegbi visited Hebron several times with his grandfather and father. Hanegbi grew up in a mixed Jewish-Arab quarter of Jerusalem, his father worked in the city administration. With the Palestine War, the social environment changed suddenly. The disappearance of his Palestinian neighbors and fellow citizens became an unsettling experience for the 13-year-old Hanegbi and a formative experience for his later political consciousness.

politics

In 1962 he was one of the founding members of the Marxist and anti-Zionist group known as Matzpen, the Socialist Organization in Israel , which distanced itself from the pro-Soviet Communist Party and advocated equal coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians in a common state. From 1967 he became one of its most prominent representatives.

Shortly after the Israeli victory in the Six Day War , he and eleven fellow campaigners published an advertisement in the national daily Haaretz, a call for an Israeli withdrawal from the conquered Arab territories, which was controversial in view of the euphoric mood in the country:

“Our right to self-defense against annihilation does not give us the right to oppress others. Occupation leads to foreign rule. Foreign rule leads to resistance. Resistance leads to oppression. Oppression leads to terror and counter-terror. The victims of terror are usually innocent people. Holding on to the occupied territories will transform us into a nation of murderers and murder victims. Let's leave the occupied territories immediately. "

- Haim Hanegbi, Shimon Tzabar and others : Advertisement in Haaretz, September 22, 1967

Hanegbi was also a leading member of the Israeli "Black Panthers", the 1971 founded Protest movement of the Misrachim (Oriental Jews) against the dominant Ashkenazi (European-Jewish) establishment, which was inspired by Angela Davis and the US Black Panther Party . In the 1970s and 1980s he was one of the leaders of the "Progressive List" along with Uri Avnery and Matti Peled . In the 1990s he was active in the leadership of the Avnery-led peace initiative Gush Schalom (Eng. "Peace Bloc"), was ready to promote a two-state solution, and even enrolled in the Labor Party . In 2003, however, Hanegbi advocated the idea of ​​a binational state instead of the two-state solution advocated by Gush Shalom. The subsequent dispute with Avnery led to Hanegbi's exit from the Gush Shalom.

He met several times with high-ranking representatives of the Palestinians, including Yasser Arafat .

In 2004 he was one of the authors of the "Olga Document", which has since been signed by dozen of Israeli academics, intellectuals and activists - a manifesto named after Giv'at Olga, the place where it was drawn up, which recognizes the injustice perpetrated by Israelis against Palestinians and a Calls for an end to the occupation of the Palestinian territories as a basis for a peace solution.

His call to elect Ariel Sharon at the end of 2005 came as a surprise after he had the settlements and military bases in the Gaza Strip destroyed in what was commonly referred to as “withdrawal” and “end of occupation”.

In 2006 he protested against the agreed transfer of land to the Jewish settler movement in Hebron by the Israeli occupation administration, arguing that he was the legal heir of the country. With the support of the human rights lawyer Michael Sfard, he sent the responsible attorney general copies of the purchase deeds from 1807, in which his ancestor is listed as a representative of the Jewish community in Hebron.

With reference to his family history, Hanegbi always took sides against the policy of Jewish settlement in the Palestinian territories from 1967. The representatives of the new settler movement in Hebron had no right to portray themselves as heirs to the Jewish tradition in the city, which was interrupted by the outbreak of the Zionist-Palestinian conflict . Hanegbi took the position not to lay claim to his family's home in Hebron until the ownership claims of the Palestinians, displaced by the Israelis since 1948, were recognized. As a last wish, he expressed his attachment to the people of Hebrew by being buried in the outskirts of the city's Muslim cemetery.

Publications

Web links

literature

Lutz Fiedler: Matzpen: Another Israeli History (Writings of the Simon Dubnow Institute, Volume 25), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2017

Lutz Fiedler: Haim Hanegbi. 1935-2018. Co-founder of Matzpen, in: Inamo 95 (autumn 2018), 22–24.

documentary

  • Eran Torbiner: Hebron in my Heart , Alternative Information Center (AIC), Israel 2012, 21 minutes ( published online on Vimeo )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Haim Hanegbi Bajayo, the Palestinian Hebronite Jew , imemc.org, March 4, 2018. Retrieved on March 6, 2018
  2. ^ Lutz Fiedler: Haim Hanegbi. 1935-2018. Co-founder of Matzpen . In: Inamo . No. 95 , 2018, p. 22-24 .
  3. ^ Reuven Miran: Remember Paris. In: Haaretz from April 18, 2011, accessed on March 6, 2018 (English)
  4. ↑ Lutz Fiedler: Matzpen , pp. 140-143
  5. ^ Matzpen and the story of two ads. In: +972 Magazine of February 11, 2013, accessed March 6, 2018 (English)
  6. ↑ Lutz Fiedler: Matzpen , p. 141f
  7. ↑ Otman Aitlkaboud: Jewish Arabs and the birth of Israel's Black Panthers. In: The New Arab of May 15, 2016, accessed March 6, 2018.
  8. ↑ For Truth, Reconciliation and Partnership - The Olga Document, website of the New ISP Verlag
  9. ↑ Yuval Yoaz: Leftist Says He's True Owner of Hebron Market In: Haaretz, January 31, 2006, accessed March 5, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Hanegbi, Haim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanegbi, Haim Nissim (full name); Bajayo, Haim Nissim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli politician and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem
DATE OF DEATH 2nd March 2018