Resistance by the colonized reshapes settler society’s internal factions and ideologies

Evidence

But missing in the analysis is the agency of the native and how the dynamics of settler strategies unfold in a process that can modify these strategies themselves through the settlers’ interaction with the resistance of the colonized and other forces (such as global and regional forces and the international human rights assertions). These strategies can evolve in different directions and lead to different forms and policies - within the defining guidelines of the structure. I argue that while the structure refers to “organizing principles,” the process - the interaction with the colonized and its various forms of resistance (that also are modified and accommodated in that process) - affect the internal dynamics within the settler society: the power relations between various factions; internal ideological variations; the emergence, weakening, or disappearances of ideological trends; resorting to new modes of legitimation; and the emergence of anti-colonial forces within the settlers’ society - in our case anti-Zionist forces. Thus, as a structure, there is currently a consensus among all Zionist factions, religious and secular, on the erection of an exclusive Jewish state with Jewish privileges and on other fundamental issues (such as the denial of the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their homeland) but not on issues related to state and church relations, relations with the Palestinian citizens, the desirability of the two-state solution, or even the view within Zionist factions of whether the settlement project in the West Bank is a settler-colonial project or a “national” undertaking of return to the homeland - exactly as to the part of Palestine that was taken pre-1967. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 546

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s causal question — here, a manufactured/foundational ideology (exclusive Jewish state) shows internal flexibility on means while staying rigid on the core, mirroring sacralized belief structures with negotiable vs non-negotiable elements. — connects to: Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable; Colonial exclusion sustained empire by dividing colonizers against themselves — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 228; External pressure can move discrimination-entrenched settler states toward democracy — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 201 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable #expands (0.85)
• Colonial exclusion sustained empire by dividing colonizers against themselves #exemplifies (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 228
• External pressure can move discrimination-entrenched settler states toward democracy #exemplifies (0.75) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 201