Settler sword and Indigenous neck: Rashid Khalidi, ‘”The Neck and the Sword”, Interviewed by Tariq Ali’, New Left Review, 147, 2024, pp. 5-38 | settler colonial studies blog

Settler sword and Indigenous neck: Rashid Khalidi, ‘”The Neck and the Sword”, Interviewed by Tariq Ali’, New Left Review, 147, 2024, pp. 5-38

22Jul24

Excerpt: ‘If you accept the settler-colonial framework of analysis, then the metropole is as important as the settler colony. Israel is not a typical settler colony, by any means; it’s also a national project, with a significant Biblical dimension, and a refuge from persecution. No other settler colony was a refuge from persecution to such a degree—the Puritans and other religious dissidents, like the Quakers, who came to North America, certainly experienced repression, but not on the same scale. Basically, this combination of characteristics is unique to the Israeli project. But the core of it, the settler-colonial core of it, relates to a metropole. And the elites in that metropole, unfortunately, have barely changed from the time when I was a child. The new generations are going to have to deal with this‘.

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