Ben Gurion and The Matrix

Now, in 2018, more than forty years after Menachem Begin and the Likud broke through the hegemony of Labor rule; more than 45 years after the Black Panther protests first brought to broad public attention the depth and power of Mizrahi rage at the old Labor elite; more than thirty years after the Labor party embraced neo-liberal economics; a generation after the kibbutz movement largely (though not entirely) collapsed, can we still say of that heroic and beautiful and exceedingly problematic founding group of Socialist Zionists that they remain at the center of our national pantheon?

This is a segment from The “What About Natalie?” Edition.