Zionism externalized the Arab from the Jew and the Jew from Europe
Evidence
Political Zionism, then, is another name for the beginning and end of the “Semite,” its paradoxically double internalization and exteriorization. The enemy within, the enemy without: the Arab, out of the Jew, and the Jew, out of Europe, exported, deported. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 975
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Israel’s founding entailed mass expulsion of Arabs to secure a Jewish majority. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 571; Zionist return to the East functioned as identification with the West against Arabs — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 344; Czarist persecution and failed rebellion drove Eastern European Jews to mass emigration to America — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 131