The Palestinian “Great March of Return” in 2018, marked by the Israeli government’s brutal attacks on Palestinians who were demonstrating at the Gaza border, nearly coincided with the Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance” policy in which the unauthorized border crossing of Latinx immigrants came under an ever severe attack. This article offers a comparative content analysis of the “border security” discourses of the two settler-colonial states of the United States and Israel by examining American and Israeli government officials’ public comments on state violence at borders. We place our study within a settler-colonial framework to provide a historically grounded analysis of the U.S. and Israel’s racial ideologies and the colorblind rhetoric of “border security.” Through a content analysis of the speeches, interviews, social media posts, and press releases of American and Israeli government officials, we identified a settler-racial ideology shared by the two states comprised of three distinct and overlapping frames: (1) obscuring settler colonialism, (2) vilification of those constructed as non-native, and (3) glorification of the state. By bridging theories of settler colonialism and structural racism, we demonstrate that a settler-racial ideology is central to maintaining the ongoing systems of border violence within settler-colonial states.

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确保种族边界：定居者种族意识形态与国家边界暴力的比较研究

2018 年的巴勒斯坦“回归大游行”，以以色列政府对在加沙边境示威的巴勒斯坦人的野蛮袭击为标志，几乎与特朗普政府的“零容忍”政策相吻合，在该政策中，未经授权的拉丁裔移民过境受到惩罚一次非常严重的攻击。本文通过考察美国和以色列政府官员对边境国家暴力的公开评论，对美国和以色列这两个殖民殖民国家的“边境安全”话语进行内容比较分析。我们将我们的研究置于定居者殖民框架内，以对美国和以色列的种族意识形态以及“边境安全”的色盲言论进行历史分析。通过对演讲、采访、社交媒体帖子的内容分析，以及美国和以色列政府官员的新闻稿，我们确定了两国共有的定居者种族意识形态，包括三个不同且重叠的框架：(1) 掩盖定居者殖民主义，(2) 诋毁那些被构造为非本土人的人，以及(3)美化国家。通过将定居者殖民主义和结构性种族主义理论联系起来，我们证明了定居者-种族意识形态对于维持定居者-殖民国家内部持续的边界暴力体系至关重要。