Introduction: Settlers and Citizens: A Critical View of Israeli Society

This special issue was born out of the SOAS Palestine Society’s 10th annual Conference, held in October 2015 at SOAS. The issue, much like the conference, aims to contribute to the growing body of literature that intersects settler colonial studies with empirical studies of Palestine and Israel. Its thematic focus is grounded in a concrete and contemporary interrogation of the structures and mechanisms of Zionist settler colonialism, through the lens of Israeli politics and polities. Bringing critical studies of Palestine into conversation with a critical study of Israel’s internal workings offers a platform through which the two intertwine and form a united body of knowledge on the settler-colonial realities in which they are situated. This article has been accepted for publication in Settler Colonial Studies, published by Taylor & Francis.