— Ethan B. Katz and Lisa Moses Leff and Maud S. Mandel and Colette Zytnicki and Daniel J. Schroeter and Tara Zahra and David Feldman and Adam Mendelsohn and Susannah Heschel and Israel Bartal and Derek J. Penslar and Joshua Cole and Elizabeth F. Thompson and and Frances MalinoZionism certainly contained orientalist elements, and it constructed elaborate moral justifications for its colonization project. At the same time, its discursive framework differed from that of European overseas colonialism in intriguing ways—for example, in its assertion of familial propinquity, however distant, with the Arabs. As opposed to Joseph Conrad’s nightmarish vision of the corruption of the white man who journeys into the heart of African darkness, Conrad’s contemporary, the Hebrew writer Moshe Smilansky, presented Jewish contact with the Bedouin and Druze of Palestine as literally an ennobling experience.
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