Abstract self-determination claims coexisted with practical dispossession of Palestinians

Evidence

Palestinians, by contrast and especially in the territories, not unlike the racially marginalized and unwanted in racially oppressive social arrangements generally, have been evicted from the Kantian Kingdom of Ends. Ben-Gurion repeatedly affirmed the right of Palestinians to selfdetermination, even as he insisted in the spirit of racial historicism that they were incapable of developing or ruling the country, that they had no right of ownership over then-Palestine, that they were to be expelled. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 603

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how the Kantian Kingdom of Ends framework applies to other settler-colonial contexts.
• DEEPTHINKING: The mechanism — abstract acknowledgment of rights combined with racial-historicist denial of capacity — is a generalizable pattern for dispossession.
• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Violence That Builds: How Modern Order Is Forged, Not Broken, by Force”