ONLINE: For centuries, Jewish tradition nurtured the hope of a return to the ancestral homeland. After the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel captured the West Bank and began authorizing Jewish settlement there, framing the territory in biblical terms as Judea and Samaria. Since then, the settlement enterprise has expanded from a small movement in the 1970s to more than 700,000 residents today. One emergent phenomenon of this enterprise is extremism, as witnessed by settler violence against the Palestinians that has been present for decades but has surged in recent years. This course surveys the rise of the settlement movement and the role of messianic and nationalist ideologies in shaping the discourse on the West Bank. It will also explore the ways in which settlement and extremism have affected Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as their contributions to enduring conflict. | Lecture + Q&A.
Max enrollment: 30.
Class sessions are recorded.
