Israel’s founding straddled decolonizing-logic and apartheid-state logics simultaneously.

Evidence

Israel was an anomaly at its founding, reflecting conflicting logics of world historical events at the time between which its declarative moment was awkwardly wedged. On the one hand, it mimicked rather than properly mirrored the logics of independence fueled by decolonizing movements, though perhaps curiously closer in some crucial ways to Pakistan than, say, to India or other decolonizing societies of the day. On the other, it embodied in potentia as structural conditions of its very formation some key features of what coterminously was emerging as the apartheid state. 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, 559 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The metropolitan Left erased Israel’s settler-colonial origins from its discourse — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 146; Running against historical decolonization made Israeli settler-colonialism uniquely visible — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 473; Israel’s founding wedged between decolonization and apartheid as novel racial state — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 559 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Israel’s founding wedged between decolonization and apartheid as novel racial state #corroborates (0.98) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 559