The "myth" of Palestine for the Italian extra-parliamentary left during the 1970s

Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Arturo Marzano
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/280
Language Italian Pages 25 P. 15-39 File size 192 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC2016-280002
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This article analyzes the importance of the "myth" of Palestine for the Italian extraparliamentary left in the 1970s. During that decade, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict started to be imagined and perceived through the prism of anti-imperialism: Palestinian resistance was conceived as a continuation of the Italian Resistance against Nazi-Fascism, while Palestinian fedayeen were viewed as the new partisans. Furthermore, this article argues that the year 1974 represented a watershed: whereas in the early 1970s Palestine had played an extremely relevant role for the extra-parliamentary left, after 1974 it became much less significant, or at least less visible, as a result of a growing turn away from politics and a retreat into the private sphere.

Keywords: Palestine, Third Worldism, anti-imperialism, Resistance, 1970s, extraparliamentary left

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Arturo Marzano, Il "mito" della Palestina nell'immaginario della sinistra extraparlamentare italiana degli anni settanta in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 280/2016, pp 15-39, DOI: 10.3280/IC2016-280002