Israeli religious encroachment rises as a legitimation response to Palestinian resistance.

Evidence

This chapter examines how nationalism, religious claims, and settler colonialism enmesh within Zionism, and demonstrates how their interaction played a major role for Israeli academia and politics in sidelining or obfuscating settler colonialism as an appropriate frame of analysis for Zionism’s encounter with the Palestinians. The chapter will make three main arguments: first, that while settler colonialism is an obvious framework for analyzing and understanding the unfolding of the Zionist project in Palestine, the framework has been obscured by highlighting the connection between Jewish nationalism and religious claims; second, that the steady rise in religious encroachment into institutions and the public sphere in Israel is rooted in the need for legitimation (grounded in religious claims) in face of rising Palestinian resistance to the expansion of the settler-colonial project from Israel to the West Bank; and third, that while secularization was possible in other settler-colonial contexts such as South Africa, Northern Ireland, and North America, it is impossible to achieve secularization within a Zionist regime. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 435

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Analyses missing settler colonialism misread why religiosity rises in Israel. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 517; Palestinian resistance drives the rise of religious nationalism in Israel — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 555; Native resistance caused Israel’s turn to overt religious legitimation — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 555 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Palestinian resistance drives the rise of religious nationalism in Israel #expands (0.95) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 555
• Native resistance caused Israel’s turn to overt religious legitimation #corroborates (0.90) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 555
• State intervention to secure legitimation generates an ever-deepening need for more legitimation #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2697