Summary
Israel’s Finance Minister in the 2023 Netanyahu coalition government, whose call for the Israeli state to “wipe out” the West Bank town of Huwara Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project gives as the new regime’s honest articulation of the aspiration behind its eliminatory policies (Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project, line 231).
Details
- Ayyash’s use of the statement: the new Israeli regime accompanies eliminatory policies with an honest articulation of the aspiration behind them — such as when Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on the Israeli state to “wipe out” Huwara — thus dismantling the veneer of democratic and progressive policies that liberal Zionists spent decades building (line 231).
- Liberal Zionists responded by protesting the attack on Huwara using the language of “anti-occupation”, “extremist settlers” and “Jewish terror”, while ignoring that the lands they call “Israel proper” were established as “Israeli” by the same structure of settler-colonial violence that seeks Huwara’s erasure (line 233).
Related pages
Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project, Huwara, Liberal Zionism, Benjamin Netanyahu