Unsettling Gaza: Secular Liberalism, Radical Religion, and the Israeli Settlement Project

Anthropological study by Joyce Dalsheim looks at Israeli settler ideology and its encounter with Gaza, examining how religious settlers in Gush Katif justified their presence and how their 2005 evacuation was experienced as a rupture in settler identity. Dalsheim analyzes the relationship between secular liberalism, religious Zionism, and the settlement project. Illuminates the ideological dimensions of Israel's control over Gaza. Valuable for researchers in settler colonial studies and anthropology examining the ideological dimensions of Israeli settlements in Gaza, the 2005 disengagement, and the religious Zionist settler movement.