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  • 9 - Serbian Jerusalem

  • from Part IV - Serbia
  • Edited by Nadim N. Rouhana, Tufts University, Massachusetts, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Queen Mary University of London
  • Book:
    When Politics are Sacralized
    Published online:
    10 June 2021
    Print publication:
    27 May 2021, pp 215-244

  • Summary

    The chapter examines discourses of comparison between Kosovo and Jerusalem invented by the Serbian nationalist movement arguably amidst the Yugoslav crisis in the 1980s. Serbian religious nationalism claims the territory of Kosovo as a holy land in ways that parallel Israeli claims to Jerusalem. This argument excludes the majority ethnic Muslim Albanians who live in Kosovo and claim political independence. Further, Serbs see themselves as collective victims like the Jews. Citing Israel as a role model for religious nationalist struggle and imitating Israeli policies toward Palestinian Muslims, Serbian claims are based on mythical historic rights, ancient religious claims, and preserved historic sites. The struggle for Kosovo as Jerusalem is cemented by religion and carried on by the Serbian Orthodox Church, which backed ethnic cleansing in the Balkan wars of the 1990s using these arguments. Counting on Israeli support for the Serbian cause, as evidenced by state and non-state visits of Israelis to Serbia, Serbian nationalism aims at making the conflict over Kosovo global.