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Zionist Loyalty and Euro-Jewish Whiteness: Untangling the Threads of a Lethal Complicity
Part I: Systems of Injustice
From: Advocating for Palestine in Canada
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In Chapter 2, Sheryl Nestel examines the legitimacy of Israel’s existence, the larger history of European Jewish whiteness, and Israel as an ally and trusted member of the larger western hegemony and its control over the world. Topics discussed include Jewish identity, colonial tropes of civility and colonization, Zionism, Racism towards indigenous Palestinians and the establishment of Jewish whiteness, the 1967 Six Day War (Arab-Israeli War), muscular Judaism and the "muscle jew", the Canadian Jewish Congress, and the Committee for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA).