Palestinian religious parties nationalized while Zionist national parties religionized

Evidence

As a final remark, and within at least the past two decades, it is useful to place the particular case of Hamas within the broader Palestinian national movement and compare the latter with the mainstream Zionist movement. In so doing, it is indeed intriguing to observe how Hamas’s shift to the direction of Palestinian nationalism has been taking place in tandem with the shift that mainstream political Zionism has been undertaking in the direction of religious Zionism. While religious parties on the Palestinian side were becoming nationalized, national parties of Zionism were becoming religionized. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2468

Categorization

• XREF: Core contrast for the MOC: moving structural position (settler vs. colonized), not cultural identity, predicts whether the machine sacralizes and excludes — confirms the internal-enemy logic can run in either direction but the driver is positional. — connects to: Religious claims serve different functions depending on political position — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 207; Hamas discourse measurably shifted from religious to nationalist vocabulary by 2012 — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2433; Hamas nationalized while mainstream Zionism religionized in tandem, opposite directions. (+8 more)
• QUESTION: Does this symmetric-but-directionally-opposite drift imply the enemy-making mechanism itself is directionally neutral, or does settler-colonial position inevitably push toward religionization while colonized position pushes toward secular nationalism?

Broader Connections

• Hamas nationalized while mainstream Zionism religionized in tandem, opposite directions. #corroborates (0.95)
• Zionist secularization nationalized messianic myth rather than replacing it #corroborates (0.85) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 315
• Zionist and Palestinian uses of religion differ fundamentally in function and centrality #expands (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2366
• Jewishness was transposed from a nation’s religion into a national religion #corroborates (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 836
• Religion stayed marginal in mainstream Palestinian nationalism for four decades #corroborates (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2413
• Israeli and Palestinian national identities are mutually constitutive through negation #expands (0.78)
• Religious framing obscures settler colonialism and blocks secularization in Zionism #expands (0.78) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 435
• Israeli and Palestinian national identities are mutually constituted as opposition #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 592
• Secular Zionism reinterpreted theology rather than departing from it #corroborates (0.78)