Robinson-Divine reflects on the tensions inherent in Zionism and the processes of establishing the Israeli state and nation. She points out that those tensions had boiled over in the months preceding ...October 7, 2023 in the form of the "judicial overhaul" that was attempted by the Netanyahu government and the mass demonstrations that brought tens of thousands of Israelis out into the streets over a period of months. The turmoil of those months, followed by the trauma of October 7th, together seem to place Israel and much of the Jewish world at a moment of decision regarding choices for the future. If one of Zionism's central aims was to mend what was deemed a brokenness of Jewish life, what repair, what healing, might emerge from the sense of crisis, catastrophe, and breakdown since October 7th.
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The gatekeepers Divine, Donna Robinson
Israel affairs,
05/2020, Volume:
26, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
"The Gatekeepers" describes the reaction of a handful of well established Israel Studies scholars to a special issue of the journal Israel Studies called "Word Crimes: Reclaining the Language of the ...Israeli-Palestinian Conflict". These professors preferred to denounce rather than engage with the arguments and analyses presented in the special issue deploying their authority to try to silence this challenge to the conventional discourse on the Middle East Conflict.
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The Gods that Failed in Israel Divine, Donna Robinson
Israel studies (Bloomington, Ind.),
09/2018, Volume:
23, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Divine examines David Grossman's Sticker Song and how it reflects the truth about Israeli society in showing the losses suffered by its people trying to bypass politics and ignore the idealistic ...visions that once gave Zionism its momentum. Grossman's song is not merely aimed at advancing the popularity of the country's left-leaning parties--although it is surely supportive of that partisan stance. Rather, it is intended to force a reckoning with the Palestinian problem, an issue most Israelis either prefer to avoid contemplating or reject as unresolvable. Embedded in Grossman's lyrics are reminders that the Jewish state was predicated on visions and ideals--extraordinary acts of the imagination at their time and perhaps for all time. To live without one of these visions disrupts not only Israels identity but also the understanding Israelis have formed of who they are.
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The Social and Cultural History of Palestine: Essays in Honour of Salim Tamari, edited by Sarah Irving. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. 232 pages. $110 cloth, e-book.
Millions of people across the globe know something of this village as the site of a massacre and the bonfire it made of Israel's moral authority in waging its war for independence. Because the story ...of rape and the slaughter of innocents is critical to the new academic discourse on the Jewish State, what happened in the village lies behind a firewall of proclaimed sanctity rarely subjected to sustained scholarly scrutiny. Some founded settlements in response to terror attacks. ...the country's postwar economic expansion enabled many Israelis-aided by government subsidies-to build their dream house and recast their culture from a celebration of a Spartan labor ideal into a nation that could offer more liberty to its citizens in their quest for material prosperity and for communities of like-minded families with the kinds of local services-religious or not-congruent with their life styles. ...the generation that witnessed Israel's founding debated almost every aspect of the country's public policy even if these heated discussions were not always translated into English or incorporated into the published material reaching bookstores in the West. ...the special issue evaluates concepts that are decidedly post-modern inventions-Islamophobia, intersectionality, pink washing-that aim to rally allies around a new logic of ethical reasoning.
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