Summary
In Sayegh’s account, the first corollary of Zionist racial identification and a core principle of Zionist ideology: Jews are to separate themselves from non-Jewish societies rather than assimilate, and to regroup alone in Palestine, which requires both the departure of Jews from exile and the eviction of non-Jews from the land of Jewish destination.
Details
- Zionist racial identification produces three corollaries, racial self-segregation, racial exclusiveness and racial supremacy, which constitute the core of the Zionist ideology (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.9 / printed p.214).
- By its nature, self-segregation precludes integration or assimilation; Zionist leaders from Herzl to Weizmann and from Ben Gurion to Goldmann preached that the chief enemy of Zionism is not Gentile anti-Semitism but Jewish assimilation, and assimilation is, in the Zionist creed, the loss of Jewish identity and the prelude to the dissolution of the Jewish nation (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.9-10 / printed p.214-215).
- The same principle demands racial purity and exclusiveness in Palestine and necessarily rejects the coexistence of Jews and non-Jews there (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.10 / printed p.215).
- The second wave of colonisation from 1907/1908 was more militantly segregationist in its attitude towards the Palestinian Arabs than the first (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.6 / printed p.211).
- Of the three essential elements of the Zionist programme Sayegh lists at the end of his expansion section, racial self-segregation in a Zionist state is the first, and the only unrealised element is territorial (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.16 / printed p.221).
Related pages
Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, Racism, Zionism, Settler Colonialism, Jewish Labour Only