# Jewish supremacy

The concept of Jewish supremacy has been used by a variety of critics of Israeli pertaining to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This may be related or distinct from those that espouse the concept of Jewish supremacy in antisemitic tropes.
In relation to Israel, individuals assert that some Israeli Jews hold ethno-nationalist views and support identity politics that equate to level of supremacism vis-à-vis the Palestinians.

## Discourse

Ilan Pappé, an expatriate Israeli historian, writes that the First Aliyah to Israel "established a society based on Jewish supremacy" within "settlement-cooperatives" that were Jewish owned and operated. Joseph Massad, a professor of Arab studies, holds that "Jewish supremacism" has always been a "dominating principle" in religious and secular Zionism.
Since the 1990s, Orthodox Jewish rabbis from Israel, most notably those affiliated to Chabad-Lubavitch and religious Zionist organizations, including The Temple Institute, have set up a modern Noahide movement. These Noahide organizations, led by religious Zionist and Orthodox rabbis, are aimed at non-Jews in order to convince them to commit to follow the Noahide laws. However, these religious Zionist and Orthodox rabbis that guide the modern Noahide movement, who are often affiliated with the Third Temple movement, expound a racist and supremacist ideology which consists in the belief that the Jewish people are God's chosen people and racially superior to non-Jews, and mentor Noahides because they believe that the Messianic era will begin with the rebuilding of the Third Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to re-institute the Jewish priesthood along with the practice of ritual sacrifices, and the establishment of a Jewish theocracy in Israel, supported by communities of Noahides. David Novak, professor of Jewish theology and ethics at the University of Toronto, has denounced the modern Noahide movement by stating that "If Jews are telling Gentiles what to do, it’s a form of imperialism".
In 2002, Joseph Massad said that Israel imposes a "Jewish supremacist system of discrimination" on Palestinian citizens of Israel, and that this has been normalized within the discourse on how to end the conflict, with various parties arguing that "it is pragmatic for Palestinians to accept to live in a Jewish supremacist state as third class citizens".
In the aftermath of the 2022 Israeli legislative election, the winning right-wing coalition included an alliance known as Religious Zionist Party, which was described by Jewish-American columnist David E. Rosenberg as a political party "driven by Jewish supremacy and anti-Arab racism".

## Examples

Various discriminatory policies and practices have been cited variously as perpetrating Jewish supremacy in Israel, including the 1952 Citizenship Law and the 2018 Nation-State Law. The banned Israeli political party Kach, the phenomenon of Israeli settler violence, and all of the Netanyahu-led Israeli governments have been accused of pursuing a Jewish supremacist agenda, particularly against the Palestinians.
In 2023, then Israeli minister of national security Itamar Ben-Gvir said
   My right, my wife's, my children's, to roam the roads of Judea and Samaria are more important than the right of movement of the Arabs