Summary
Scholar quoted at length in Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers for the claim that ignoring the construction of Israel as a settler society blocks both emotional and analytical understanding of the conflict, and for the required change in moral evaluation that the article’s conclusion adopts (Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers, PDF p.16-17 / printed p.54-55).
Details
- The quotation, from her ‘Conclusion’ in The Challenge of Post-Zionism (Zed, 2007), p.191 (note 42, the editor printed as Ephraim Nimi): ignoring or marginalizing the settler-society construction prevents most Israelis from understanding epistemological and ontological aspects of the conflict, and a different understanding is vital for transversal dialogue beyond the simulation games of conflict resolution models in the Oslo negotiations (PDF p.17).
- Pappé frames his own required change by her comment: change is connected to a different moral evaluation of the Zionist project in general (PDF p.16), and he adds that recognising the victims’ transformation was not unique, and was quite common, should also be part of the change she suggests (PDF p.17, her name printed without the hyphen in that sentence).
Related pages
Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers, Settler Colonialism, Shtetl Colonialism