Case study · two populations, one system
“Liberal,” “Labor,” “kibbutz” and “Revisionist” describe differences inside the society whose rights are recognized. They do not describe different systems for Palestinians. Across those self-attributed labels, Palestinians encounter the same governing structure: unequal rights, dispossession and centralized control.
Kibbutzim can organize property collectively. Labor Zionism can describe itself as social-democratic. Liberal Zionism can support markets, elections and welfare. Revisionist Zionism can advocate a stronger nationalist state. Those labels locate tendencies within Jewish Israeli society; they do not define the rights of everyone governed by the state.
For Palestinians, the relevant structure is not which Zionist tendency governs internally. It is the system operating across citizenship, residency, land, movement, military force and political power. Changes among Zionist labels can alter administration without ending the underlying relation of domination.
Collectivism for some. Liberalism for some. One system of domination for Palestinians.
The axes show ownership and centralization. They do not, by themselves, show who belongs, who is excluded, or whose rights count. This case therefore requires a third question: equal universal rights, or legally structured privilege?