Jewish supremacy is the belief that Jews people are superior to gentiles. The concept of Jewish supremacy arises in some discourse about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. According to some cultural commentators, the ethno-nationalist views, policies, and identity politics of some Israeli Jews rises to the level of a form of supremacism vis-à-vis the Palestinians, an Arabs.[ The violent lies of Israel’s president][ Chanting ‘burn Shu’afat’ and ‘flatten Gaza,’ masses attend Jerusalem Flag March] The term has been used by a variety of critics of Israeli policies, with some arguing that it reflects a broader pattern of discrimination against non-Jews in Israel. It has also been used by United States far-right proponents of antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Discourse
Ilan Pappé, an expatriate Israeli historian, writes that the First Aliyah to Israel "established a society based on Jewish supremacy" within "settlement-cooperatives" that were owned and operated by Jews.[David Hirsch, Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: Cosmopolitan Reflections , The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism Working Paper Series; discussion of Joseph Massad's "The Ends of Zionism: Racism and the Palestinian Struggle", Interventions, Vol. 5, No. 3, 440–451, 2003.][According to Joseph Massad's "Response to the Ad Hoc Grievance Committee Report" on his Columbia University web site during a 2002 rally he said "Israeli Jews will continue to feel threatened if they persist in supporting Jewish supremacy." Massad says others have misquoted him as saying Israel was a "Jewish supremacist and racist state." See for example David Horowitz, The professors: the 101 most dangerous academics in America, Regnery Publishing, 271, 2006]
Since the 1990s, Orthodox Judaism from Israel, most notably those affiliated with Chabad-Lubavitch and religious Zionist organizations, including the Temple Institute, have set up a Noahidism.
In 2002, Massad said that Israel imposes a "Jewish supremacist system of discrimination" on Palestinian citizens of Israel, and that this has been normalized within the discourse on how to end the conflict, with various parties arguing that "it is pragmatic for Palestinians to accept to live in a Jewish supremacist state as third class citizens".
In 2021, the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem classified the Israel as "a regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea" through laws amounting to apartheid. It also took note of the fact that, after it was established in 1989, it initially focused on the legal and social situation in the Israeli-occupied territories, but that "what happens in the Occupied Territories can no longer be treated as separate from the reality in the entire area under Israel’s control" because there "is one regime governing the entire area and the people living in it, based on a single organizing principle".
In the aftermath of the 2022 Israeli legislative election, the winning right-wing coalition included an alliance known as Religious Zionist Party, which Jewish-American columnist David E. Rosenberg said is "driven by Jewish supremacy and anti-Arab racism".
Proponents of the one-state solution cite the development of Jewish supremacy as one of the main reasons for the necessity of a single country that applies democratic principles across all sectors of society, regardless of ethnic or religious affiliations.
Examples
Various discriminatory policies and practices have been cited as perpetrating Jewish supremacy in Israel,["Supremacy Unleashed: The Ongoing Erosion of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel." Shira Robinson 2021, The Routledge Handbook of Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa] and the .
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