RT Article
T1 Settler-Colonialism and the Diary of an Israeli Settler in the Golan Heights$aThe Notebooks of Izhaki Gal
JF Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
VO 21
IS 1
SP 48
OP 71
A1 Sulimani, Gideon
A1 Ḳlẹter, Raz 1960-
LA English
PB Edinburgh Univ. Press
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1810713463
AB In 1967 the Golan Heights saw a dramatic change: a hundred villages were destroyed and replaced by new Israeli settlements. We study the beginning of this settlement through the lens of settler-colonialism, using documents of the time. The settlers claim to be ‘original natives’, ‘returning’ to the land and, like other colonial settlers elsewhere, bringing culture and civilisation to a terra nullius. To justify the settlement, they create a ‘deep’ narrative that combines the ancient past and the new settlement, erasing the in-between Arab past. The settlement — and the destruction — are on-going processes. The settler appears as a young, heroic figure, who patronises the ‘Others’ as weaklings (tourists, women, etc.) and is oblivious to the tragedy of the displaced Syrian inhabitants of the Golan Heights.
K1 Archaeology
K1 Druze
K1 Golan Heights
K1 Heritage
K1 Israel
K1 Marginalisation
K1 Occupied Territories
K1 Palestine
K1 Private Diaries
K1 Settler-colonialism
K1 Terra nullius
DO 10.3366/hlps.2022.0283