Editing Maxime Rodinson (section)

===Support for Palestinian [[self-determination]]===
Rodinson took a public stance in favour of Palestinian self-determination during the [[Six-Day War]]. A few months before publishing his famous article, Rodinson took part in a meeting organized in the "[[Maison de la Mutualité|Mutualité]]" in Paris for the [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] struggle. Published in June 1967 under the title "Israel, fait colonial" (Israel, a colonial fact) in [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]'s journal, ''[[Les Temps Modernes]]'', Rodinson's article made him known as an advocate of the Palestinian cause. He created the Groupe de Recherches et d'Actions pour la Palestine with his colleague [[Jacques Berque]].

At that time, he observed that the Palestinian struggle was a cause embraced mainly by the [[antisemitic]] right and [[Maoist]] fringe of the left. He called on the Palestinians to take their case to [[Liberalism in Europe|liberal Europeans]], warning them of the danger of a religious nature of the conflict which would tarnish the reputation of a just cause:

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in the ardour of the [[ideological]] struggle against [[Zionism]], those Arabs most influenced by a Muslim religious orientation would seize upon the old religious and popular [[prejudice]]s against the Jews in general
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