Ethnocracy

Summary

A term Wolfe takes from Oren Yiftachel’s Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine (2006) and applies throughout Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics to the Zionist project in Palestine: an ethnically exclusive regime of land and membership, built before statehood as a Jewish-only zone in Mandate Palestine (Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics, PDF p.1, p.8, note 19 / printed p.133, p.140).

Wolfe credits the coinage to Oren Yiftachel in note 19 (PDF p.32 / printed p.164); the article itself supplies no separate definition beyond its uses.
The abstract: combining unconditional funding with the Conquest of Labour, Zionists built a contiguous zone of Jewish-only land on which to fashion their “ethnocratic state-in-waiting” in Mandate Palestine (PDF p.1 / printed p.133).
The colonising plan aimed to convert an expanding contiguous wedge of Palestine from Native ownership into an irreversibly Jewish endowment, maintaining “this ethnocratically consolidated zone by whatever means should prove available and viable” (PDF p.8 / printed p.140).
The Second Aliya’s Jewish-only enclaves culminated in “the rigorously ethnocratic kibbutzim” (PDF p.9 / printed p.141).
In the land-purchases analysis, planners sought to build “a fully-formed ethnocratic parallel to the existing apparatus of government” by tailoring immigration to the transfer of Palestinian land into exclusively and irreversibly Jewish ownership (PDF p.22 / printed p.154).
In Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers, the establishment of an ethnocratic regime is named among the basic features of the Zionist engagement with indigeneity, within the settler colonialist paradigm, citing Abdelwhaab Elmessiri, Land of Promise: A Critique of Political Zionism (1977), pp.101-108, spelling as printed (PDF p.4 / printed p.42, note 2). See Abdelwahab Elmessiri.

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aliases	ethnocratic