Summary
A West Bank town named in Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project as the object of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s call for the Israeli state to “wipe out” the town, and of the liberal Zionist protest response to the attack on it (Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project, lines 231-233).
Details
- Smotrich’s call is given by Ayyash as the new Israeli regime’s honest articulation of the aspiration behind its eliminatory policies, dismantling the liberal veneer (line 231).
- Liberal Zionists protested the attack on Huwara using the language of “anti-occupation”, “extremist settlers” and even “Jewish terror”, while continuing to ignore that the lands they call “Israel proper” — from which they carry out their protests — 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, Bezalel Smotrich, Liberal Zionism