Zionism’s negation of exile caused the Palestinian exile and denial of homeland

Evidence

Exile and exilic can be productive for thinking on the secularization of Israel. This is particularly important considering the fact that the result of the idea of “negation of exile” is the exile of the Palestinian people, the denial of its homeland in the name of the biblical promise as justification for the project of colonization. “An ancient time grants to this new time the keys of our doors,” wrote Mahmoud Darwish, and this is the point of departure for the discussion of exile, and of Jewish existence. The voice that may generate the discussion on exile and renew sensitivities of previous generations is the Palestinian. After all, secularization is meaningless if not including its victims. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 376

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to ‘On Sacrifice’ themes — the biblical promise as the founding sacrificial claim that dispossesses in its name.
• SEED: Angle: how the ‘negation of exile’ ideology manufactures the very homelessness it claims to resolve — a self-reproducing enemy/displaced structure.
• XREF: connects to: Zionism’s settlement of Palestine structurally required demographic and cultural replacement of natives. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 466; Zionist nationalism required denying its own kabbalistic and exile heritage — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 370; Zionist orientalist imagery of Arabs denied them contemporary reality and rights — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 646 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Zionist colonization of Palestine combined demographic cleansing, village destruction, and structural genocide #expands (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 437
• Zionist orientalist imagery of Arabs denied them contemporary reality and rights #expands (0.75) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 646
• Exclusion from citizenship drove Palestinians to abandon pan-Arabism for their own state #corroborates (0.75) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 933
• Zionist land imagery gendered the land and denied Arab history #expands (0.75)