How "Settler Colonialism" Can Help us Understand Israel--and the U.S

Hixson explores how settler colonialism can help people understand Israel and the US. Settler colonialism is an important concept because it helps explain the core identity not only of Israel but also of its chief benefactor, the US. Indeed, the shared identity as settler colonial states goes a long...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Washington report on Middle East affairs 2020-10, Vol.39 (6), p.18-19
1. Verfasser: Hixson, Waiter L
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Zusammenfassung:Hixson explores how settler colonialism can help people understand Israel and the US. Settler colonialism is an important concept because it helps explain the core identity not only of Israel but also of its chief benefactor, the US. Indeed, the shared identity as settler colonial states goes a long way toward explaining the special relationship between the two nations as well as the history of the Middle East conflict. Surveying changes that were remapping the world as a result of the First World War, President Woodrow Wilson declared that Jewish Palestine should never go back to the Mohammedan apache. By linking Arab Muslims with the southwestern Indian tribe, which had relatively recently been violently subdued by the US, Wilson invoked the shared history of settler colonialism. Israel and the US create mythological histories for themselves that puts a positive spin on history, thereby obscuring more critical analysis and understanding. Americans, for example, like to think of themselves as the "land of the free," yet the nation sanctioned slavery at its founding, clung to it long after most nations ended the odious practice of human bondage, and today has the highest rate of incarceration in all the world.
ISSN:8755-4917
2163-2782