Infiltrators Go Home! Explaining Xenophobic Mobilization Against Asylum Seekers in Israel

This article explores recent outbreaks of protest and violence against asylum-seekers in Israel. I posit that while existing approaches to anti-immigrant mobilization that primarily emphasize material and cultural forms of inter-group competition offer important explanatory foundations, they are insufficient to account fully for these outcomes. Instead, I argue that Israel’s explicit interests vis-a-vis recent influxes of asylum-seekers, namely,...