Nationalists borrow others’ sacralized land narratives as strategic templates

Evidence

Perica explains that modern Serbian nationalism claimed Kosovo as a sort of “holy land” to justify its “liberation.” This is why, since the Balkan War of 1912, and later in post-Tito Yugoslavia, the claim to Kosovo was justified on the basis of religious sacredness to Serb culture and national identity. The author shows how the comparison with Israeli religiously based territorial claims helped Serb nationalists to justify their own expansionist policies. In this context, Perica explicitly examines what the Balkan nationalists borrow from Israel and Zionism as “Israel appears as a role model to follow in the nationalist struggles for land.” — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 184

Categorization

• XREF: Manufactured/borrowed sacredness of land fits the reader’s framing of constructed external/enemy narratives — here the ‘construction’ is openly adopted from another nationalist movement as a template. — connects to: Sacralized territorial rhetoric travels across unrelated national conflicts; Claims of sacred land ownership secure one group’s dominance over others — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 120; Nationalist theory translations were politically deployed to intervene in local conflicts — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 828 (+5 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Nationalist theory translations were politically deployed to intervene in local conflicts #expands (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 828
• Translation covers can embed nationalist mythology within the target culture #exemplifies (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 791
• Political groups adopt nationalist rhetoric opportunistically #exemplifies (0.78) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 159
• Supranational empires educated subject nations in tribal nationalism by pitting nationalities against each other #exemplifies (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 599