Settlers build fortress homes to justify their inherited-victim identity.

Evidence

The flawed children of the martyrs do not live in homes; they live in fortresses. And to make their homes into fortresses, they need them besieged and under fire. Where else can one come closer to one’s dreams than among the famished and destitute, despairing and desperate, cursing and stone-throwing Palestinians… Here, the comfortable and commodious, all-mod-con houses are unlike the houses the children manqués have abandoned – those comfortable and commodious, all-mod-con houses over there, in the stale and dull, too-safe-for-comfort American cities, where the children would be bound to stay as they are, manqués. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 679

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to necropolitics and the spatial-material construction of siege identity, relevant to readings on Islamophobia and securitization. — connects to: Colonial and settler hysteria differ in that settlers translate fear into murderous acts — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 281
• SEED: Angle: the material built environment (settlements, walls) as the physical enactment of an imagined inherited identity.

Broader Connections

• Colonial and settler hysteria differ in that settlers translate fear into murderous acts #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 281