Israeli Orientalist scholarship is structurally linked to military and intelligence institutions.

Evidence

Yet no less important for our central argument is that the field of Israeli Orientalism (Mizrahanut) has been structurally and outwardly connected with the state intelligence and the military apparatus, the Israel Defense Forces. Here as elsewhere in academia, Mizrahanut is an extension of, and in small part also a contributing participant in, Western Orientalism. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 443

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the Milgrom law-merchant and Coase-theorem readings about institutions serving state ends; also resonates with the knowledge-power analysis in Said and Foucault.