On Jews and Indigeneity
What Does Colonialism Have to Do with It
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5311776 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shiri Pasternak (0000-0002-6605-0022, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-97 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Native American and Indigenous Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2332-1261 • E-ISSN: 2332-127X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nai.2025.a957110 |
| OpenAlex | W4409509567 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The category of "Indigenous" has come to justify any measure of violence wrought by the Israeli state. Why has this identity been evoked as a central defense, particularly in North America, of Israel's response to the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023? Intrinsic to this discourse is the denial of Palestinian indigeneity. If there is no Palestinian nation, there can be no occupation, dispossession, or colonization. In this light, Zionism is shaping the discourse of Indigenous politics through its claims to Jewish indigeneity, as it cosplays colonialism as Land Back. The task is to disentangle the meaning of roots and the traffic of identity as they pertain to nations-in dismantling the apparatus of settler states
Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Sociology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |