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Zionist Loyalty and Euro-Jewish Whiteness: Untangling the Threads of a Lethal Complicity:
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).
Contributors
Sheryl Nestel
Emily Regan Wills is an associate professor of comparative politics at the University of Ottawa. She is the co-director of the Community Mobilization in Crisis project, which develops and implements innovative multilingual digital pedagogical tools for teaching community mobilization skills in the Middle East and elsewhere.
