Jewish identity does not automatically produce hard-right Likud-style politics.

Evidence

Many of the first generation of neocons were Jewish and found themselves alienated by the New Left’s sympathy for the Palestinian struggle and for Third World causes more broadly. Yet the Jewish experience does not automatically translate into a hard-right Likud-style politics. As Richard Seymour observes, “It is clearly the case that, for many Jewish neoconservatives, their Jewish identity mattered; but there are surely a variety of ways of experiencing life as a Jewish immigrant in the United States, and many more ways of relating to that experience.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 386

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fanon asserted that Jews were not categorically aligned with colonialism — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 509; Neocon Zionism stems from imperial politics, not Jewish ethnic identity. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 387; Religious minorities become politically suspect when religion ties to national identity

Broader Connections

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