Israeli Communist Party
The Israeli Communist Party was the only Palestinian-Jewish party in Israel/Palestine after 1948. The party was originally founded in 1929 as the Palestine Communist Party (PKP). In 1943, due to national tensions, the party split into the Jewish PKP and the Palestinian National Liberation League (NLL) which launched al-Ittihad newspaper in 1944 under the editors Emile Habiby and Emile Touma. In 1948, the Palestinian and Jewish factions reunited in 1948 and took on the continued publication of al-Ittihad.
▴ Members of The Communist Party of Israel, in Haifa, 23 October 1948. Seated (right to left): George Garabadian, Emil Habiby, Shmuel Mikunis, Tawfiq Toubi, Meir Vilner. Standing (right to left): Mordechai Biletski, Esther Vilenska, Pnina Feinhaus, Alyosha Gozansky, Wolf Ehrlich, Abraham Feigenboim, Eliyahu Drukman, Ruth Lubitsch. Haifa, 23 October 1948. Photo by Kobi Kastan. Private collection of Yoram Gozansky.
▴ People’s Liberation Poster, Artist Unknown. Published by the Israeli Communist Party (MAKI), 1955. Retrieved from the Palestine Poster Project Archives.
▴ Congress for Israel-Soviet Union Friendship, Artist Unknown. Published by the Israeli Communist Party (MAKI), 1954. Retrieved from the Palestine Poster Project Archives.
▴ MAKI 1955 by Artist Gershon Knispel. Published by the Israeli Communist Party (MAKI), 1955. Retrieved from the Palestine Poster Project Archives.