פעילי ימין רדיקלי ואלימות פוליטית כלפי המדינה: ? אסטרטגיית שינוי או ערעור על לגיטימיות

Based on 20 semi-structured in-depth interviews with radical right-wing activists from the West-Bank (out of 60 interviews with activists from various sectors), this article seeks to explain what interpretations radical right-wing activists give to violence directed towards the state. The findings raise two non-mutually exclusive possibilities: First, violence is perceived as a conscious strategy for socio-political change. Interviewees agree to risk themselves, but less so their group, in exchange for the potential benefit of marking what activists call a ‘price-tag’ for the state concerning future land evacuations. Second, violence indicates undermining perceived state legitimacy. As such, perceived state legitimacy consists of six different components, which the interviewees differentially undermine: identification, trust, procedural justice, distributive justice, legality, and effectiveness. The article proposes to examine whether and how conclusions could be drawn from it and be applied to other right-wing radical groups around the world.