Israel’s self-conception was racially configured from its very founding.

Evidence

Israel, it is accordingly apparent, has been thought - has thought of itself in part precisely - from its initiating modern conception explicitly as racially configured, as racially representative. And those insistent racial traces persist despite the post-Holocaust European repression of the use of race as social self-reference or -representation, as I make evident in the chapter to follow. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 566

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that Israel saw itself as ‘racially representative’ challenges the common self-image of Zionism as anti-racial après-Holocaust — worth testing against further evidence.
• XREF: 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