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Itay Snir

Itay Snir is a senior lecturer at the Yezre’el Valley Academic College, Israel, and co-editor of Mafte’akh: A Lexical Journal for Political Thought. His research focuses on political theory and the philosophy of education. He is a member of Academia for Equality and the Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families for Peace.

Essays

Paradise Found: How War Gives Israel Purpose

This theological dimension, which does not exclude messianism but coexists with it, is not new to Zionism and has been present in it from its inception; articulating it will therefore contribute not only to understanding the history of Zionism, which is far from being as peace-seeking as it often tells itself, but also to understanding the wide Israeli support of the genocidal war on Gaza.