An article of mine has been published in the new issue of Sources of the Shalom Hartman Institute: :
"A Natural Act of Vengeance: Settler Violence and Two Types of Jewish Fundamentalism"
The article explores two types of ascending Jewish extremism, rising from within Religious Zionist circles, presenting fundamentalist interpretations of Jewish tradition and rejecting both the authority of the State of Israel and the notion that the state has messianic significance, which had been the signature claim of Religious Zionists since the 1970s.
Focusing on the post-mamlakhti Hardal group and the anti-mamlakhti Hilltop Youth, I try to show the connections between their political convictions and their religious ideas – the deeper meaning of minister Smotrich’s call to "wipe out" a Palestinian town and Jewish zealots’ vengeance pogroms – and argue that the latter are as dangerous to Judaism as the former are to the state of Israel.
Here on the site, and here in pdf.
Tomer Persico - English 
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