Mainstream Israeli scholarship attributes religious-nationalist rise to 1967 contact with holy sites
Evidence
There is a consensus among scholars who study Israel that secular Zionism has gradually been weakened and that it has been giving way to religious Zionist trends (Davis and Coffman 2014). The gradual, yet steady, shift of religious discourse relating to politics and nationalism from the margin to the center has been well recorded (Scham 2018, 207–13). This includes exploration into why religious nationalism rose in power in Israel after 1967 (Bar-Tal and Salomon 2006, 26–27; Davis and Coffman 2014, 30–33; Tessler 2009, 411–12); the surge in the influence of Jewish religious parties in Israeli state institutions (Tessler 2009, 411–12); the penetration of Jewish religious values and discourse into the public sphere (Hasson 2015) and the military (Chapter 5). All these studies seem to focus on the immediate contact of the Jewish public with the Jewish religious sites in the West Bank after its occupation in 1967, as if that somehow caused a fundamental shift. After all, they argue that more Jewish religious sites exist in the part of Palestine that Israel occupied in 1967 (such as East Jerusalem, Hebron, Nablus, and the Bethlehem area) than inside Israel within its 1948 borders. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 518
Categorization
- QUESTION: A key causal question for the reader’s research: does the dominant explanation trace this to ‘encounter with sacred territory’ rather than settler-colonial structural dynamics — opposing candidate mechanisms worth testing.
- XREF: connects to: 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
Broader Connections
- Palestinian resistance drives the rise of religious nationalism in Israel
#contradicts(0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 555 - Native resistance caused Israel’s turn to overt religious legitimation
#contradicts(0.75) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 555