Palestinian decolonization lacks the class conditions that enabled South African liberation.

Evidence

In Palestine, by contrast, the only analogue for that situation is the political hegemony of the PLO among the Palestinians; none of the other key elements of the South African situation obtains. In addition, imperialist stakes are far higher in Israel than they ever were in South Africa. Zionism has succeeded in becoming one of the most powerful ideologies of the advanced capitalist countries, and the Zionist state has been the main beneficiary of the global sympathies generated by the Nazi concentration camps. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 54

Categorization

• XREF: The class-condition explanation distinguishing the two settler-colonial cases relates to contemporary comparisons between South African and Palestinian struggles.