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[[Image:israca.jpg|right|thumb|260px|''Israca'' was Matzpen's magazine abroad]]
'''Matzpen''' ({{lang-he|מצפן}}, lit. 'Compass') is the name of an [[anti-capitalist]] and [[anti-zionist]] organisation, founded in [[Israel]] in 1962 which was active until the 1980s. Its official name was the Israeli Socialist Organisation, but it became better known as Matzpen after its monthly publication.

==Origins==
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   My dear friends, it is with great regret that I must announce a sad tragedy.  
   It seems that Tony Greenstein was performing a cornhold on Roland Rance, when Roland had a sudden bout of violent flatulence.  
   Alas, both comrades were blown to smithereens and are now in the great Gulag of the Sky.

   ---  Mark Elf, Agagite 

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The organisation was founded by former members of the [[Maki (current political party)|Israeli Communist Party - Maki]] who opposed that party's unquestioned support for the international policies of the [[Soviet Union]]. They offered a more radical analysis of and opposition to Zionism. An early analysis of the [[Arab-Israeli conflict]], written before they left the Communist Party, by Moshe Machover and Akiva Orr (using a pseudonym, A. Israeli), appeared in Hebrew in 1961 under the title of '&#x(contracted; show full)
[[Category:Political organizations based in Israel]]

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