Israel As A Settler-Colonial Project — Foundation Of A Theory

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  1. anneinpt says:

    I don’t know how you have the stomach to wade through that pile of … well, you know what. I feel physically sick reading that bile.

    Is there any way you can get this article, or at least the research that you carried out for this article, published as an academic paper? At least there will be something on record for academics wishing to find a more balanced view.

  2. Michael Greenspan says:

    I read Patrick Wolfe’s paper about settler colonialism and the elimination of the native, and seeing it has become a widely cited paper, it seemed important to fairly examine his arguments, so I found your article here, some 7 years too late I guess.

    You quote the place where he writes: “If I wish to substitute a new building for an old one, I must demolish before I construct.” as a quote from Herzl’s Altneuland. It is fair to point out two things. One, it is not from Altneuland, but from Der Judenstadt. And secondly, in context, the old building to be torn down has nothing to do with Arab settlement in Palestine. The old building he is referring to is Jewish attitudes against having their own state. And the new building is the new pro-state attitude and organization. This is I think obvious to anyone who has bothered to read the book being quoted from. It is really a dishonesty for Wolfe to use the academic platform to mislead in this way. His quotes from Jabotinsky are equally misleading. It is a sorry sign of the state of academia when such a paper becomes is the source of so much inspiration.

    Anyhow…comment is 7 years late in a way, but it is still an important issue, and perhaps if this seminal paper can be properly criticized and debunked, it could help…destroy the root, and the tree will die.

    • Sheri Oz says:

      Thanks for this comment. If you have any interest in working with me on preparing an academic article debunking Wolfe’s paper, I would like that very much.

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  2. March 19, 2020

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  4. November 17, 2020

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  5. August 16, 2021

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