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A failed settler colonialism turns to genocide: Tamir Sorek, ‘Mainstreaming a Genocidal Imagination in Israeli Society: Settler-Colonialism, Settler Anxiety, and Biblical Cues’, Journal of Genocide Research, 2025

09Feb25

Excerpt: While it is true that since 1967, Religious Zionists have been the primary promoters of annihilationist rhetoric, the involvement of Secular Israelis in October 2023 does not represent a novel phenomenon. Rather, it is deeply rooted in the eliminatory imagination of transfer – a concept preached and practiced by the founding fathers of Secular Zionism – and in annihilatory rhetoric employed by Secular Zionists as early as the 1930s and during the 1948 war. To understand the apparent sudden mainstreaming of genocidal imagination and the relationship between this imagination and religiosity, a broader historical perspective is essential. This perspective must account for the underlying context of settler-colonialism, its impact on the settlers’ mindset and habitus, and the complex relationship between secularism and religiosity within Zionism. In this article, I examine the interplay of three key factors that have shaped the evolution of genocidal imagination.


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