Barbaric Paradoxes
Zionism from the Standpoint of the Borderlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23409337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Santiago Slabodsky (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 145-175 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Decolonial Judaism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137345837_7 |
| OpenAlex | W2502847152 |
| ISBN | 9781137345837 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
One of the most iconic stories of Western political Zionism is its founder’s alleged “conversion” to a nationalist project. Just prior to the turn of the twentieth century, Theodor Herzl, a young journalist from central Europe, was canvassing one of the most notorious cases of modern anti-Semitism: the Dreyfus affair. According to the now-legendary narrative, Herzl left Paris shocked by the case we discussed a few chapters hence. A perfectly assimilated individual, very much like himself, was not only singled out as a Jew but also falsely condemned through recourse to a pernicious narrative of bar- barism. The same society that had shed blood to achieve liberty, the same political system that fought for equality, and the same nation that promised universal fraternity was demonstrating its fierce loyalty to a narrative which supposedly undermined each of these humanitarian ideals. Notwithstanding all the service he had provided to the modern European state, Dreyfus, an assimilated Jew par excellence, was accused of having participated in a seditious plot to destroy the most universal of the Western nations.
Art · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Plot (graphics) · Political science · Politics · State (computer science) · Zionism · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |