Israel’s founding ideology combined anti-Arab rhetoric with Jewish supremacy over Arab citizens

Evidence

This ambivalence runs to the very early days of the state. “We do not want Israel to become Arab,” declared Ben-Gurion in a fit of forthrightness. “We are bound by duty to fight against the spirit of the Levant society.” Yet, because Jews, de-Arabized or not, they are better treated, considered to belong, with more access, rights, political representation, and increasingly political power and acceptance than non-Jewish Arab Israelis. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 602

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the racial-neoliberalism thesis running through the whole book. — connects to: Israel’s founding entailed mass expulsion of Arabs to secure a Jewish majority. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 571; Israeli religious-right parties escalated dehumanizing anti-Arab rhetoric in the 1980s.