British mandate rule reorganized a cosmopolitan Ottoman order into divided sectarian communities.

Evidence

British modernization, as Salim Tamari has pointed out, accordingly transformed a complexly secular, cosmopolitan, broadly communitarian order under Ottoman rule – especially in cities such as Jerusalem and ports such as Jaffa and Haifa (but also more regionally in Beirut and Damascus) – into a more segregating, ethnoracially and religiously discrete and divided set of communities in contest with each other for resources, space, and political favor. Classic colonial divide and rule, ethnoracially fueled. … In what follows, I am less identifying Israel as representing the apartheid state as I am tracing the ways in which, in conception and practice, it has come not just to embody apartheid elements but to represent a novel form of the racial state more generally. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 556 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

British modernization, as Salim Tamari has pointed out, accordingly transformed a complexly secular, cosmopolitan, broadly communitarian order under Ottoman rule – especially in cities such as Jerusalem and ports such as Jaffa and Haifa (but also more regionally in Beirut and Damascus) – into a more segregating, ethnoracially and religiously discrete and divided set of communities in contest with each other for resources, space, and political favor. Classic colonial divide and rule, ethnoracially fueled. This regional transformation of heterogeneity into the logos of an assertedly homogeneous ethnoracial polity, of ethnoraciality, its promptings and its implications, is what I trace here in the name of racial palestinianization. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 556 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: British planners replaced the composite Ottoman idea with racial-nationalist nationhood; British colonial rule converted heterogeneous Ottoman communities into segregated ethnoracial polities — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 556; British colonial rule created ethnoracial divisions where pluralistic communal life existed. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 556 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• British colonial rule created ethnoracial divisions where pluralistic communal life existed. #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 556
• British colonial rule converted heterogeneous Ottoman communities into segregated ethnoracial polities #expands (0.93) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 556