Religious claims anchor constitutional inequality and block democratic equality.

Evidence

The religious claim is not only at the core of settler colonialism in Palestine, it is also at the heart of constitutional inequality in Israel. Only if Israel is designated as a Jewish state given by God (in whose existence we do not have to necessarily believe) exclusively to the Jewish people – the core claim of Zionism – can the calls for equality between Arab and Jew or transforming Israel into a state for all its citizens be labeled as “fanatic.” Keep God and his promises out of it, and seek the kind of secularization mandated by decolonization as described above, and then equality and the civic state become the fundamentals of democratization. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 565

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Religion can override political rights and material gains when believers hold it inviolable; Religious utopianism supplies equality and freedom demands to oppressed strata — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1440; Secular political movements can weaponize religious claims they do not believe. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 495 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Religion can override political rights and material gains when believers hold it inviolable #expands (0.85)
• Secular political movements can weaponize religious claims they do not believe. #expands (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 495
• Treating both sides’ religious claims as equivalent falsely cross-equates them. #complicates (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2365
• Religious utopianism supplies equality and freedom demands to oppressed strata #qualifies (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1440
• Religious minorities’ rights assertions affirm rather than threaten American institutions #contradicts (0.78) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 285
• A secular majority depends on the religion it claims to resent. #qualifies (0.72) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 773