“We are all Israelis”: The Politics of Colonial Comparisons

Lubin, Alex

doi:10.1215/00382876-2008-012

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“…Another related technology of fragmentation in the West Bank is the massive, 730km‐long wall that snakes through the territory, well beyond the 1967 Green Line. The Apartheid Wall, as it is often known by Palestinians, cuts Palestinian cities and villages in two, separating farmers from their land and Palestinian communities from one another (Bishara 2017:38; Lubin 2008:686–687). Working together with the other mentioned technologies, as well as countless more, this serves to further divide communities of West Bank Palestinians from one another.…”

Section: The Fractality Of Fragmentationmentioning

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“to stop the earthquake”: Palestine and the Settler Colonial Logic of Fragmentation

Nabulsi

2023

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Fragmentation is a key colonial strategy to which Palestinians enact resistance, evident most prominently in the 2021 Unity Intifada. In this article, I take inspiration from such Palestinian resistance to theorise fragmentation as a central logic of Zionist/Israeli settler colonialism. I make three related points. First, I employ the metaphor of the earthquake to consider the fractality of settler colonial fragmentation across the dimensions of land, time, and bodies. Second, understanding the settler colonial logic of elimination as ultimately attempting to extinguish a Palestinian Indigenous sovereignty, I argue that the logic of fragmentation drives towards elimination. Finally, I demonstrate that, in fragmenting Palestine, Zionism seeks to render Israel a coherent entity. Ultimately then, the Zionist project works to fragment Palestine to eliminate Palestinian bodies from land and time, to render Israel a seamless nation across these dimensions. However, Palestinian Indigenous sovereignty is not something that can be broken or extinguished.

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Section: The Fractality Of Fragmentationmentioning

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“to stop the earthquake”: Palestine and the Settler Colonial Logic of Fragmentation

Nabulsi

2023

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“…9 This wall not only illustrates the export of technology developed to monitor the Palestinians, but also affirms the collaboration of two white-settler societies in surveilling native populations. 10 It also points to the advantage that Israeli companies have achieved, given that they have never stopped developing ever more sophisticated equipment to monitor and contain the Palestinians. Tohono O'odham activists and Elbit's representatives seem to be in agreement regarding these suppositions.…”

Section: Sales Of Israeli Surveillance Technology: Perceptions Of Effectsmentioning

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Israel’s settler-colonialism as a global security paradigm

Sa’di¹

2021

Race & Class

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Israeli surveillance industries are well integrated in the global surveillance market. This incorporation is achieved through marketisation, labour processes and the circulation of capital. Even Israel has been considered by many as a successful securitising model. In this article, it is argued that this success is the outcome of several factors, including the shared premises of Israel’s settler-colonial regime and neoliberal data-based globalised capitalism, which has become a leading sector in the current economic formation. Furthermore, it reflects the advent of the securitising states and concurrently the rise of the security-industrial complex in the US and, to a lesser degree, in Europe. Yet, the acceptance of Israeli-settler colonial surveillance methods and Weltanschauung as a model points to the erosion of hitherto cherished values such as privacy, trust, autonomy, care and solidarity.

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“…To point to double standards is to insist (on the basis of the superseding moral standard of egalitarianism, anti-racialism and non-discrimination, that is, ‘our’ moral compass, informed to a significant extent by the experience of World War II and the Holocaust) on comparison. However, comparisons, as Benedict Anderson argues, introduce ‘spectral hauntings’ that ‘can never fully erase the violence at their core’ (Anderson, quoted in Alex Lubin, 2008: 672, 688). Comparison, and hence spectral haunting, is thus embedded in the language of equivalence that is the basis of the multicultural paradigm.…”

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Liberal tolerance and its hauntings: Moral compasses, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

Romeyn

2016

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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The pro-Gaza demonstrations that marked the summer of 2014 were trailed by a concern over the intensity of anti-Semitism among European Muslims and accusations of 'double standards' with regard to anti-Muslim racism. In the Netherlands, the debate featured a nexus between the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, freedom of speech and the limits of tolerance, which beckons a closer analysis. I argue that it indicates the place of the Holocaust in the European imaginary as one of a haunting, which is marked by a structure of dis/avowal. Prescriptive multicultural tolerance, which builds on Europe's debt to the Holocaust and represents the culturalized response to racial inequalities, reiterates this structure of dis/avowal. It ensures that its normative framework of identity politics and equivalences, and the Holocaust, Jews and antiSemitism which occupy a seminal place within it, supplies the dominant (and in the case of anti-Semitism, displaced) terms for the contestation of (disavowed) racialized structures of inequality. The dominance of the framework of identity politics as a channel for minority populations to express a sense of marginalization and disaffection with mainstream politics, however, risks culturalizing both the origins and the solutions to that marginalization. Especially when that sense of marginalization is filtered and expressed through the contestation of the primacy of the Holocaust memory, it enables the state, which embeds Jews retrogressively in the European project, to externalize racialized minorities on the basis of presumed cultural incompatibilities (including antiSemitism, now externalized from the memory of Europe proper and attributed uniquely to the Other); to erase its historical and contemporary racisms; and to subject minority populations to disciplinary securitization. Moreover, it contributes to the obfuscation of the political, social and economic dynamics through which neo-liberal capitalism effects the hollowing out of the social contract and the resultant fragmentation of society (which the state then can attribute to 'deficient' minority cultures and values).

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“We are all Israelis”: The Politics of Colonial Comparisons

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“to stop the earthquake”: Palestine and the Settler Colonial Logic of Fragmentation

“to stop the earthquake”: Palestine and the Settler Colonial Logic of Fragmentation

Israel’s settler-colonialism as a global security paradigm

Liberal tolerance and its hauntings: Moral compasses, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

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