Racial Regimes and White European Jewish Supremacy as Property

This article argues that the Zionist theft and expropriation of Palestinian land resulted in it being made into white property and that Zionism can be understood as a textbook case of Cedric Robinson's concept of racial regimes that explains how race is reproduced even though race is denied by...

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Main Author: Lenṭin, Ronit 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2024
In: Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
Year: 2024, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 221-237
Further subjects:B European white (Jewish) supremacy
B Resettlement
B Racial regime
B Whiteness as property
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Summary:This article argues that the Zionist theft and expropriation of Palestinian land resulted in it being made into white property and that Zionism can be understood as a textbook case of Cedric Robinson's concept of racial regimes that explains how race is reproduced even though race is denied by the Zionist colonisers as justifying the relations of power. The article follows Cheryl Harris's and Noura Erakat's work on whiteness as property that, according to Erakat, leaves the Palestinian natives outside the category of Jewish nationals to be removed, dispossessed, and contained. The article illustrates how the ongoing colonisation of Palestine as expressing white European supremacy involves several aspects of racial capitalism—the Judaisation of Palestinian lands, the segmentation of labour from the Zionist policy of the Conquest of (Hebrew) Labour to the reliance on cheap and dispensable Palestinian labour, and the lebensraum plans to relocate the Gaza Strip population and re-settle it.2
ISSN:2054-1996
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3366/hlps.2024.0340