Summary
A liberal Zionist writer quoted in Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project on the early Zionists’ self-understanding as building a liberal political movement (Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project, lines 145, 171).
Details
- As quoted by Ayyash, in reference to early Zionists: “The triumphant Zionists understood what they were doing as building a liberal political movement. Liberalism was baked into the political Zionism that ultimately led to the building of the state.” (lines 145, 171)
- Ayyash groups him with most Israeli analysts who focus on the interplay between Left and Right ideologies as a matter of intra-Israeli and intra-Jewish politics, against Ayyash’s own definition of Zionism through the experiences of the Palestinians (line 175).
- Ayyash later names him among those who make the global-ethnonationalism framing “more explicitly in order to reaffirm Israel’s image as foundationally a liberal democracy” (line 205).
Related pages
Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel’s Settler Colonial Project, Liberal Zionism, Labor Zionism