Ben Wexler on the Idea of the Eternal Settler – 26 January 2025

00:00:00 Background information
00:03:37 Start of Ben’s talk, introduction
00:04:20 Theoretical background
00:06:14 Thematic overview
00:07:00 Real and imagined Jews in the history of European colonialism
00:12:45 Activist settler colonialism discourse and antisemitism today
00:20:38 Fetishised anti-capitalism and the idea of the Eternal Settler
00:21:17 Settler colonial studies and Israel as the ‘super settler colony’
00:26:16 The theological concept of the Eternal Wandering Jew
00:31:35 A renewed vertical alliance and the Jewish right in Canada
00:37:20 End of Ben’s talk
00:39:03 Q1 “Anti-British nature of Zionism” – comments?
00:40:46 Q2 “Native-settler” displacing “labour-capital”?
00:42:02 Response Q1 – ES discourse naturalising (some) nationalisms
00:44:33 Response Q2 – labour and the settler colonialism framework
00:47:45 What is settler colonialism? C/SC distinction
00:52:46 Different uses of “settler colonialism” by different authors
00:54:23 Lachlan McNamee’s work and critiques of the SC framework
00:56:20 Arnon Degani’s analysis of Zionism
00:57:15 Degani’s use of the SC framework
01:00:45 Settler colonialism, political economy and demography
01:06:57 Siberian regionalism
01:08:05 Imperiality and Coloniality
01:11:46 Indigeneity, Nandita Sharma and Mahmood Mamdani
01:17:29 South Africa, labour and colonialism
01:20:55 Problematising the concept of indigeneity
01:29:40 Antisemitism, racism, materiality
01:41:50 Race, gender, Great Replacement & Love Jihad
01:45:27 Imaginary Jewish demography, antisemitic biopolitics, Soros

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