Israel licensed Islamist Hamas precursors to weaken the Palestinian left
Evidence
As international relations scholar Fred Halliday notes, it was in this context that anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism came together to a much greater extent, especially among the settler community as well as the nationalist and religious parties. However, this did not prevent the Likud Party from using the precursor organization to Hamas, the Mujamma‘ al-Islamiyya, for its own purposes. When the Israeli state recognized and formally licensed the Mujamma‘ in 1978, the logic was simple—the Islamists‘ hostility to the left made them useful entities. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 459
Categorization
- XREF: Useful nearby fact: same Israeli state that escalated anti-Arab Islamic racism also armed Islamists — an instrumental contradiction like the CIA-Muslim Brotherhood case. — connects to: Israel licensed Islamist organizations in the late 1970s to weaken the Palestinian left — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 447; Israel licensed Hamas’s predecessor because Islamists opposed the secular left — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 399; Palestinian Islamists were accused by nationalists and leftists of serving Israeli occupation — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 319 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Israel licensed Hamas’s predecessor because Islamists opposed the secular left
#corroborates(0.98) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 399 - Palestinian Islamists were accused by nationalists and leftists of serving Israeli occupation
#corroborates(0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 319 - Letting Hamas govern would expose its limits and open space for a secular left.
#qualifies(0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 364