Abstract
The Israeli Socialist Organization (ISO) known later as Matzpen was founded in 1962 but did not earn much notice until after the 1967 Six-Day War when it attracted great attention, chiefly for being the first Israeli organization to speak against Israel abroad. The rhetoric that characterized Matzpen was largely based on a historical analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The article argues that Matzpen underwent significant ideological shifts that influenced and at times changed the way it perceived historical events retroactively. A systematic reading of Matzpen’s publications from its seminal book in 1961 until the end of 1972, reveal that unlike the common notion, transitions in Matzpen’s view regarding the nature of Zionism and its relation to the Western powers in the Middle Eastern context, occurred also before the Six-Day War. The War was merely one important turning point in a process of de-Zionization.
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