Biblical land-redemption ideology distinguishes Israeli settler colonialism from classic settler modes.

Evidence

Territorial clearance in Israel’s case has been prompted historically in terms of “redemption of land.” This heart-felt historico-moral claim to land redemption, to retrieving territory always already biblically “ours,” distinguishes racial palestinianization from classic modes of settler colonialism. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 654

Categorization

• DEFINE: Identifies the redeemer ideology—land retrieval as sacred duty—as the distinguishing feature of Israeli colonization vs. settler colonialism generally.
• XREF: connects to: Religious framing obscures settler colonialism and blocks secularization in Zionism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 435; Analyses missing settler colonialism misread why religiosity rises in Israel. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 517; Israeli scholarship on religious politics omits settler colonialism as a frame — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 517