Israeli scholarship on religious politics omits settler colonialism as a frame

Evidence

Rarely does the discussion of religion’s increasing presence in Israeli politics include the settler-colonial characteristic of the Zionist project. The discussion of sacralized politics in Israel often focuses on the increasing religionizing of Israeli society, how religion and nationalism interact, the increasing role of religious groups in politics, media, and the military, and so on. These discussions, including by leading Israeli scholars (e.g., Chapter 5; Peled and Peled 2018; Ram 2008; Shenhav 2007), do not see a place for settler colonialism. This is not surprising, because Israeli academia has by and large bypassed the discussion of Zionism and Israeli society within a settlercolonial framework. While in many cases of examining nationalism and religion, such as those referenced above, the analysis is valuable, its dead spot is overlooking or denying the settler-colonial context and its impact on why and how religious claims are being progressively employed as politics become more sacralized. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 517

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s broader research on how sacralized legitimacy frames operate; connects to Base Nation and colonial-state-material in the reference library where structural frames are denied or erased. — connects to: Jewish-Israeli academia has almost entirely avoided the settler-colonial framing of Zionism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 455; Analyses missing settler colonialism misread why religiosity rises in Israel. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 517; Religious framing obscures settler colonialism and blocks secularization in Zionism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 435 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Analyses missing settler colonialism misread why religiosity rises in Israel. #corroborates (0.92) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 517
• Religious framing obscures settler colonialism and blocks secularization in Zionism #expands (0.85) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 435
• Religious Zionism’s territorial claims were not a revival of old Jewish settlement ideology #contradicts (0.78) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 359
• The metropolitan Left erased Israel’s settler-colonial origins from its discourse #corroborates (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 146
• Zionist secularization reinterprets biblical myth through colonial frames #expands (0.75) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 326
• Biblical land-redemption ideology distinguishes Israeli settler colonialism from classic settler modes. #expands (0.74) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 654