Anti-Palestinian sentiment operates as a passion, not just an ideology.

Evidence

As Sartre remarks about antisemitism, then, so we can observe about palestinianization, that it is not simply an idea or set of ideas but as much a passion. Racial palestinianization turns on a revulsion and repulsion related to dispositions of abjection, horror, hatred, anger, inferiorization. The Palestinian’s vulgarity and aggression are the source if not the totalization of Israel’s woes. Were it not for the Palestinian there would be no terror, no threat, no insecurity, no challenge to Israel’s very existence, no recession, no economic burden, no refugee problem, no insecurity regarding demographic swamping, no limit on Jewish settlements in Judea and Sumaria. The Holy Land would be complete, unified, God’s historical promise fulfilled. But perhaps too there would be no Israel (as we now know it)! — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 612

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Sartre’s analysis of antisemitism as passion in Anti-Semite and Jew.