External pressure can invite colonialists to exit the settler mentality they inhabit

Evidence

The colonial situation that “manufactures colonialists” (Memmi 1967, 56) may not itself be inevitable. It is at once the wager and the intent of the boycott movement, and intrinsic to its explicitly anti-racist principles, that the exogamous pressure that it supplies in the absence of state-directed interventions stands not as a threat of the “destruction of the state of Israel,” but as an invitation to Israelis to abandon the settler-colonial mentality and the privileges that depend on the dispossession and displacement of Palestinians, and to embrace the possibility of cohabitation in the region on equal terms. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2143

Categorization

• QUESTION: Whether social pressure operates as invitation (abandonment) rather than hardening existing threat-hardened conviction is directly the reader’s backfire question — worth testing in the data.
• XREF: connects to: Colonialism operates as an internalized state of mind, not just external domination — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 324; Escalating domestic costs force colonial powers to abandon ideological colonial formulas — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1543; Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonialism operates as an internalized state of mind, not just external domination #expands (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 324
• Escalating domestic costs force colonial powers to abandon ideological colonial formulas #corroborates (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1543
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself #complicates (0.72)