Hamas nationalized while mainstream Zionism religionized in tandem, opposite directions.

Evidence

Behind this rather superficial similarity between the Zionist and Palestinian uses of religion lies a complex and differing picture that will be examined in the following discussion. Throughout more than a century of the Palestinian struggle with Zionism, the use of religion and religious claims by the Palestinian national movement has differed profoundly from that practiced by Zionism on two levels: function and centrality. Function denotes the purpose for which religion and religious claims were deployed by both the Zionists and the Palestinians; centrality refers to how central the place of religion and religious claims has been within these two national movements throughout the struggle. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2366 (#instantiates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Zionist and Palestinian uses of religion differ fundamentally in function and centrality — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2366; Hamas discourse measurably shifted from religious to nationalist vocabulary by 2012 — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2433; Palestinian religious parties nationalized while Zionist national parties religionized — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2468

Related

• Palestinian religious parties nationalized while Zionist national parties religionized (similarity 0.90)
• Zionist and Palestinian uses of religion differ fundamentally in function and centrality (similarity 0.88)
• Hamas discourse measurably shifted from religious to nationalist vocabulary by 2012 (similarity 0.88)
• Religion stayed marginal in mainstream Palestinian nationalism for four decades (similarity 0.85)
• Hamas emptied traditional religious concepts and refilled them with revolutionary content (similarity 0.85)
• Treating both sides’ religious claims as equivalent falsely cross-equates them. (similarity 0.85)
• Even the most religious Palestinian factions used religion for mobilization, not land claims (similarity 0.83)
• Religious claims serve different functions depending on political position (similarity 0.83)
• Religion functioned to invent Zionist land claims but only to mobilize Palestinians. (similarity 0.83)
• Religious claims can serve legitimacy or resistance functions in nationalism (similarity 0.82)
• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s religious framing is recent rather than primordial (similarity 0.81)
• A religious-nationalist movement can secularize while retaining religious roots (similarity 0.80)
• Religion and nationalism are fused throughout secular Zionism, not only in religious nationalism. (similarity 0.80)
• The religious core is inseparable from Zionism but separable from Israeli Jewish nationalism (similarity 0.79)
• Palestinian resistance drives the rise of religious nationalism in Israel (similarity 0.78)