Binationalism and Jewish Identity

Raz‐Krakotzkin, Amnon

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“…It is based on the perception of Zionist settlement and sovereignty over Mandatory Palestine (reconstructed and resized "Eretz Yisrael") as the return of the Jews to their homeland, regarded either as empty or as a land with no culture or people of its own. 109 As such, the Zionist project has been seen as the fulfillment of Jewish history and the realization of Jewish messianic expectations. 110 Zionist ideology advanced its interpretation of the religious myth and the Scriptures as exclusive: "God was excluded, but his word continued to direct the discourse and to serve as a source of legitimacy for the process of colonization and dispossession."…”

Section: Zionism's Political Theologymentioning

confidence: 99%

What's in the Apartheid Analogy? Palestine/Israel Refracted

Dakwar¹,

Zreik²

2020

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This article engages the analogy of Palestine/Israel to apartheid South Africa, and probes the political imaginary that contours this discussion while explicating the circumstances of its emergence. Accordingly, it contends that apartheid is not merely a system of institutionalized separation; rather, it organizes the facts and reality of separation(s) within a frame and against a background unity that effectively allows it to be perceived as such. To that end, the article explores four key factors that created background unity in apartheid South Africa: labor relations; political theology; role of language; and geo-political unit(y), and scrutinizes their political and experiential ramifications in Palestine/Israel. Prologue 1 J.G. Strijdom, South Africa's prime minister from 1954 to 1958, described the racialized construction of space at the core of apartheid in these terms: "in a bus I will not sit alongside a native." 2 In May 2015, the military commander of the occupied West Bank issued an order that allocated separate bus lines for local Palestinians and Jewish settlers. Upon the instruction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Minister of Defense Moshe Yaa'lon revoked the order the next day. 3 Prima facie, these two acts seem to suggest a salient moral and political difference between the ongoing state of affairs of contemporary Palestine/Israel and what occurred under the apartheid in South Africa. This is all the more so if one considers explicit commitments to civil rights for all Israel's citizenry (which comprises a fraction of the Palestinian people) found in the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (1948). 4 Despite national subordination and blatant cases of segregation (especially in zoning and housing) in Israel proper, 5,6 Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel study together in colleges and universities, work together in civilian hospitals and clinics on all levels, dine in the same restaurants, and, indeed, ride on the same buses. It is therefore tempting for some analysts to argue that apartheid South Africa and Palestine/Israel represent two different

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Section: Zionism's Political Theologymentioning

confidence: 99%

What's in the Apartheid Analogy? Palestine/Israel Refracted

Dakwar¹,

Zreik²

2020

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“…Other examples are postcolonial intellectuals such as the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who was expelled from Israel to Lebanon as a young boy in 1948, then returned to Israel as an illegal immigrant with his family, and later left again, without ever feeling at home anywhere (Raz-Krakotzkin, 2011: 123–4). The life of Darwish is emblematic for the situation of millions of people who are internally displaced, second-class citizens, permanent non-citizens, or barred from leaving their country.…”

Section: Exile At Homementioning

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Can the refugee speak? Albert Hirschman and the changing meanings of exile

Heins

2019

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This article presents a critical reading of Albert O. Hirschman’s typology of exit, voice and loyalty as a heuristic for understanding the changing meanings of exile in the 20th and early 21st centuries. It is argued that Hirschman’s experiences as well as the theory he distilled from them are highly relevant for researchers of forced migration and exile. After first defending the usefulness of Hirschman’s analytical framework for exile and diaspora studies, the article then highlights the need to revise and complicate his approach. Hirschman could not foresee the emerging global possibilities of cultivating ‘the art of voice’, new forms of internal and self-exile as a result of post-fascist versions of authoritarianism, and the growing difficulties faced by refugees including, refugee scholars and writers, to exit their countries and find a safe haven somewhere else. The gaps in Hirschman’s theory are addressed by drawing on insights from the writings of Judith Shklar.

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“…65 Elsewhere, he brings out the JewishAshkenazi nature, and therefore also the colonialist and orientalist nature, of this problematic process, because it is based on exclusion, silencing and marginalizing of Palestinians as well as Mizrahi (Eastern) Jews. 66 I argued above that the Western Wall epitomizes more than any other site the ethnocratic nature of our society: in every historical period, the Jewish prayer arrangements there demarcated the respective political status of the Jewish people (Judea Captiva, Ahal el-Dama). Since the creation of the national home mechanisms under the British Mandate, following the Balfour Declaration, these prayer arrangements have reflected the status of the Zionist and Israeli ethnocracy.…”

Section: A Catholic Civil Religion In An Ethnocratic Statementioning

confidence: 99%

Women of the wall: radical feminism as an opportunity for a new discourse in Israel

Shakdiel¹

2002

Journal of Israeli History

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Binationalism and Jewish Identity

Cited by 17 publications

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What's in the Apartheid Analogy? Palestine/Israel Refracted

What's in the Apartheid Analogy? Palestine/Israel Refracted

Can the refugee speak? Albert Hirschman and the changing meanings of exile

Women of the wall: radical feminism as an opportunity for a new discourse in Israel

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