Summary
In Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project, the process Ayyash proposes in place of Liberal Zionism as a “partner in peace”: a decolonial liberation framework for the whole of colonized Palestine and for Palestinians everywhere, which he argues also benefits Israeli Jews in the long term (Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project, lines 151-153, 239-241).
Details
- It begins with the recognition by Israeli Jews that Zionism never resolved the “Jewish Question” in Europe, but rather internalized it and replicated the Western colonial project in Palestine (lines 153, 241).
- It ends in a place where Israeli Jews would no longer be “natives or settlers in historic Palestine,” but rather “immigrants…welcome residents in a historic homeland” (lines 153, 241).
- It means the reimagining of the state, nationalism and sovereignty away from Western colonial models (lines 153, 241).
- Beyond colonized Palestine, liberal Zionism must be debunked across political parties and institutions, the media and civil society collectives, through intersectional coalitions committed to decolonial justice organising teach-ins, petitions and letter-writing campaigns (lines 155, 243).
- Its five practices (lines 245-255): counter ideology with reality; reject the weaponization of Antisemitism, including definitions that incorporate the question of Palestine from the IHRA to the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism; center Palestinian paradigms; emphasize decolonial anti-racism against corporatized Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives; and dismantling Zionism — exclusive Jewish sovereignty over the land — with Jewish and Israeli communities participating in the project.
Related pages
Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project, Liberal Zionism, Decolonisation, Zionism, Colonial modernity