Secularism itself functions to exclude Palestinians in Israel

Evidence

The exclusion of Palestinians is not done by “religion” but actually by the fundamental parameters of the secular. Hence the denial of “religion” is at the same time an act of exclusion of the Palestinians. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 322

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Israel’s religious-secular binary functions as a self-purifying rhetoric that masks racial exclusion — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 708; Zionist secularism was a European cultural identity by definition — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 663; Secular Jewish conceit separated them from nations more than religious law did (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Israel’s religious-secular binary functions as a self-purifying rhetoric that masks racial exclusion #expands (0.95) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 708
• Religious framing obscures settler colonialism and blocks secularization in Zionism #complicates (0.85) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 435
• Zionist secularism was a European cultural identity by definition #qualifies (0.80) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 663
• Secular Jewish conceit separated them from nations more than religious law did #complicates (0.80)
• Secularism is not a mask for religion. #contradicts (0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 106