Israel’s right-of-return discourse asymmetrically privileges Jewish over Palestinian claims.

Evidence

As the Chosen People, self-anointedly so, Jews are the objects of both envy and scorn. Jews’ “right to return” is magically drawn into a landscape apparently never abandoned as the Arab right is buried in the rubble of a landscape to which they assertedly never laid claim and from which they have recently been exorcised. Their homes are bulldozed away, their right to live, to be, in either Palestine or Israel, is always in question, under threat, uncertain, no matter how deep any ancestral, familial claim. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 582

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to threatened-privilege generalization: entitlement to ancestral return is granted the dominant group and denied the displaced; a nativity/territory axis parallel. — connects to: Israeli and Palestinian national identities are mutually constituted as opposition — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 592; Zionism reframed equality as the right to discriminate — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 979; Israeli and Palestinian national identities are mutually constitutive through negation (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• A Jewish surname can grant unchecked passage that Palestinians are denied. #exemplifies (0.90) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1019
• Israel’s Law of Return structurally blocks assimilation of non-Jewish natives #expands (0.88)
• Zionism reframed equality as the right to discriminate #expands (0.80) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 979
• Israeli discourse frames Palestinian ethno-racial difference as justification for subjugation. #expands (0.80)
• Israeli and Palestinian national identities are mutually constituted as opposition #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 592
• Israeli and Palestinian national identities are mutually constitutive through negation #corroborates (0.75)
• Israeli state archaeology functions to legitimize an exclusive claim to the land #exemplifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 627