Neo-Zionism

Neo-Zionism (Hebrew: ניאו-ציונות) is a far-right, ultranationalistic, and religious ideology that appeared in Israel following the Six-Day War in 1967 and the capture of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Neo-Zionists consider these lands part of Israel and advocate their settlement by Israeli Jews. Some advocate the transfer of Arabs not only from these areas but also from within the Green Line.

The term "Post-Zionism" entered Israeli discourse following the publishing of a book by Uri Ram in 1993.[1] In the same volume, Gershom Shafir contrasted Post-Zionism with what he termed Neo-Zionism.[2] In a widely cited 1996 essay, sociologist Uri Ram used the term Neo-Zionism to describe a political and religious ideology that developed in Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War.[3]: 18 [4]: 67 [5]: 218  He considers it as an "exclusionary, nationalist, even racist, and antidemocratic political-cultural trend" in Israel,[6] and that it evolved in parallel with, and in opposition to, the left-wing politics of Post-Zionism and Labor Zionism.

  1. ^ Uri Ram (2010). Israeli Nationalism: Social Conflicts and the Politics of Knowledge. Routledge. p. 112. ISBN 9781136919954.
  2. ^ Ella Shohat (2006). Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices. Duke University Press. p. 382. ISBN 0822387964.
  3. ^ Motti Regev; Edwin Seroussi (2004). Popular Music and National Culture in Israel. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520236547.
  4. ^ Dan Leon (2004). Who's Left in Israel?: Radical Political Alternatives for the Future of Israel. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900574.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Ronit Lenṭin (2000). Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah: Reoccupying the Territories of Silence. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781571817754.
  6. ^ Uri Ram "Historiosphical Foundations of the Historical Strife in Israel" in Israeli Historical Revisionism: from left to right, Anita Shapira, Derek Jonathan Penslar, Routledge, 2002, pp.57-58.