Israel functions as a racial state in denial built as state plus shadow state

Evidence

Israel has moved from a single state possibility to establishing a state and a shadow state. The first, overwhelmingly for Jews, tolerates really small Islamic, Christian, and Druze minorities. The shadow state for Palestinians largely lacks self-determination, freedom, a viable economic foundation, and any sort of security for its inhabitants. This is not so much the state form of apartheid as a distinct modality of the racial state in denial about its racial predication: racial palestinianization. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 658 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Israel’s religious-secular binary functions as a self-purifying rhetoric that masks racial exclusion — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 708; Israel’s founding wedged between decolonization and apartheid as novel racial state — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 559; Israel now operates a state for Jews and a shadow state for Palestinians. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 658

Broader Connections

• Israel now operates a state for Jews and a shadow state for Palestinians. #expands (0.96) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 658