Secular settler-colonial projects increasingly need religious legitimation to sustain expansion.

Evidence

The religious-national support for the settlement project is unquestionable. It has forceful roots in the openly religious Zionist discourse (Lustick 1988). But the direct or indirect blaming of religious nationalism or religious parties is, in my view, selfserving misplacement of responsibility from Zionism as a settler-colonial project. It is the convergence of the religious with the settler colonial and their interdependence that make both rise concurrently. Religious nationalism supports the settlement project and pushes toward expanding it; secular Zionism, in its settler-colonial project, increasingly needs the legitimation of the religious claims. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 527

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s research on sacralized political conflict: religious and secular forces converge and mutually reinforce rather than one being the sole driver. — connects to: Settler-colonial states facing unresolved legitimacy needs keep manufacturing legitimation — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 469; Settler-colonial incorporation of new territories demands new legitimacy claims — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 550; Religious framing obscures settler colonialism and blocks secularization in Zionism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 435 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Religious framing obscures settler colonialism and blocks secularization in Zionism #corroborates (0.95) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 435
• Secular Zionist leaders invoke religious claims to obscure settler colonialism. #exemplifies (0.90) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 442
• Settler-colonial incorporation of new territories demands new legitimacy claims #expands (0.85) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 550
• Secularism as a category masks the colonial dimension of settler nationalisms #expands (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 301
• Religious markers fade when not needed to secure supremacy in a settler context #qualifies (0.75)