« Settlers, migrant settlers, and their separate reconciliations? Jason Chalmers, ‘Settler Colonialism, Reconciliation, and Indigenous–Jewish Relations in Canada’, Contemporary Jewry, 2024
The Wall Street Journal against settler colonial studies (I am including it here because this is a repository, but if a critique of settler colonialism is called ‘settler colonial ideology’ then Marx is a capitalist): Adam Kirsch, On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice, WW Norton, 2024 »

Settler antisemitism? Raz Segal, ‘Settler Antisemitism, Israeli Mass Violence, and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies’, Journal of Palestine Studies, 2024

18Aug24

Abstract: This article examines the depiction of Israel as a nation-state like any other as a mechanism of disavowing Israeli settler colonialism. It is a depiction that also brings into focus the antisemitic marginalization and violence against Jews in nation-states. In this framework, the article shows that since modern antisemitism emerged at the intersection of the nation-state system and European imperialism and colonialism, Israel as a settler nationstate also functions according to the logic of what the author calls settler antisemitism. While the racialization of Jews in the frame of White supremacy in other settler-colonial states could include Jews as immigrant settlers but never more, White supremacy in Israel has manifested itself as Jewish supremacy, which defined the project of creating a White Jewish settler society. The article concludes with a discussion of the crisis in Holocaust and genocide studies that this situation has exposed, especially in the midst of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.


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