The metropolitan Left erased Israel’s settler-colonial origins from its discourse

Evidence

The metropolitan Left paid irs homage ro these contrasting situations by mobilizing support for the ANC but accepting the Zionist credentials ro the extent that the settler-colonial origins of the Zionist state, and the numerous distortions of the Israeli polity which are owed directly ro those origins, are now not even a part of the discourse of that Left. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 146

Categorization

• XREF: Flows into the reader’s materialist-critique thread, but note this is about classing apartheid vs. Israel asymmetries rather than strategic essentialism per se. — connects to: Metropolitan leftists suppressed memory of Soviet-backed anti-colonial victories — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 149; The Rushdie affair exposed metropolitan Left cultural nationalism as selective about its martyrs — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 150; Postcolonial Anglo-American academy discourse erased a structural split between revolutionary and national-bourgeois decolonization. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 177 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Israel’s 1948 founding was a settler colony amid a decolonial wave #corroborates (0.95) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 978
• Israel’s founding wedged between decolonization and apartheid as novel racial state #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 559
• Israel’s founding straddled decolonizing-logic and apartheid-state logics simultaneously. #corroborates (0.90)
• American exceptionalism erases the country’s settler-colonial and imperial wars while projecting benevolence #exemplifies (0.85)
• Zionism’s essence drives settler colonization rather than contingent constraints limiting it #expands (0.85) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 437
• A domestic-focused metropolitan Left has abandoned the core socialist project of anti-imperialism #expands (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 595