Summary
Author of Chapter 25 of From the River to the Sea, “Israel, fascism, and the war against the Palestinian People” (28 November 2023), arguing that a fascist logic is immanent to settler-colonialism (From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, lines 1934-2012).
Details
- The fascism “godfathered” by Netanyahu is anchored not only in fundamentalist settlers but in billionaires’ business interests, and in Daniel Blatman’s warning that the biggest threat is the Kohelet Policy Forum, not Likud (lines 1956-1962).
- Liberal Israeli invocations of fascism largely aim to shore up the myths of liberal Zionism and its Herrenvolk democracy; Tareq Baconi, quoted at lines 1988-1992, holds that what worries the protesters is the prospect of the fascist ideology familiar to Palestinians being turned on Israeli Jews.
- His variation on Horkheimer: “Whoever is not willing to talk about settler-colonialism should be quiet about fascism.” (line 1998)
- Unless settler colonialism is dismantled — the colony liberating itself and liberating “the metropole from itself” — fascism can only ever return (lines 2008-2012).
Related pages
From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, Fascism, Settler Colonialism, Tareq Baconi, Sai Englert