Hakibbutz Haartzi, the Mapam-sponsored kibbutz movement, lashed out last night against the extreme left-wing in Israeli politics. A resolution adopted at the close of a two-day meeting of the movement’s Executive at Givat Haviva warned affiliated kibbutzim to be on guard against the activities of Moked, a new leftist coalition headed by Meir Payil and followers of Communist Shmuel Mikunis. The attack on the left came after speakers castigated the growing right-wing as the main enemy on the political front. But Moked is apparently regarded as at least an equal menace. It polled an unexpectedly large number of votes at Mapam kibbutzim in the Dec. 31 elections and received one Knesset seat. Last night’s resolution branded it a “harmful, non-Zionist oriented movement.”
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