german christian israel
13Jul13
Kurt Eppinger’s community of German Christians arrived in the Holy Land to carry out a messianic plan – but after less than a century its members were sent into exile, the vision of their founding fathers brought to an abrupt and unhappy end.
The Germans were no longer welcome in what had been first a part of the Ottoman Empire, then British Mandate Palestine and would soon become Israel.
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- Unfree workers, but then settlers: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Michael Quinlan, Unfree Workers: Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788-1860, Palgrave, 2022
- Is it time? Andrew Thibaudeau, ‘”The Last of the Monacan”: Settler Time and Queer Time in “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains”‘, Poe Studies, 59, 2026, pp. 93-116
- Sheepish settler colonialism? Irus Braverman, ‘The New Jewish Shepherd: Land Grabbing and Redemption in the Occupied West Bank’, American Anthropologist, 2026
- Indigenous resistances: Linda Tabar, The Indigenous Anti-Colonial: A Palestinian Resistance Tradition and a World Beyond Settler Colonialism, Duke University Press, 2026
- A settler for protection: Samuel Furphy, ‘Protector of Settlers? Charles Symmons and Aboriginal Protection in Western Australia, 1840-1855’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2026
- Genderising settler colonialism: Éloïse Décoste, ‘The Indian Act and the Gendered “Logic of Elimination”‘, McGill Law Journal, 71, 4, 2026, pp. 1001-1035
- Federalism is settler colonialism: Zachary Jericho Couture, ‘Weaponizing Federalism for Settler Colonialism: Canadian Court (Mis-)use of Federalist Prinicples against Indigenous Jurisdiction’, McGill Law Journal, 71, 4, 2026, 1177-1217
- Colonies for like-minded people: David R. Como, ‘Castles in the Air: Sectarian Puritanism, the Revolutionary Caribbean and the Forgotten Colony of New Warwick, Trinidad’, History, 2026
- The tradwives of the settler imagination: Terra Sage Wallin, The Grammar of Return: Tradition, Gendered Performance, and Moral Formation in the Digital TradWife Movement, PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2026
- Documentarying settler colonialism: Azraf Chowdhury, ‘The lens of resistance: Using No Other Land (2025) and The Settlers (2024) as contemporary documentaries to understand the Israeli settler project’, Journal of Global Faultlines, 13, 2, 2026, pp. 155-179
- Settlers see ‘surplus land’: Myrzantay Zhakyp, ‘Communicating Colonial Space: How Imperial Discourse Produced “Surplus Land” in the Kazakh Steppe’, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 2026
- An Irish island in the bush … Ronan McDonald, ‘Hy-Brasil in Australia: Irish myth and settler belonging’, Southerly, 81, 1, 2026, pp. 234-244
- Ungrounding while unhinged: Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide, Fern Press, 2026
- Good question: Alessandra Spadaro, ‘International Law and Racial Capitalism in Palestine: Occupation Gone Wrong or Settler Colonialism Done Right?’ Third World Approaches to International Law, 7, 2026
- The current settler colonial conjuncture: Shannon Speed, ‘Hearing Her Breathing: Indigenous Knowledges and the World Beyond Settler Capitalism’, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 54, 3-4, 2026, pp. 351-355
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