For decades we have spoken of the ???Israel-Palestine conflict???, but what if our understanding of the issue has been wrong all along? This book explores how the concept of settler colonialism ...provides a clearer understanding of the Zionist movement's project to establish a Jewish state in Palestine, displacing the Palestinian Arab population and marginalizing its cultural presence. Jeff Halper argues that the only way out of a colonial situation is decolonization: the dismantling of Zionist structures of domination and control and their replacement by a single democratic state, in which Palestinians and Israeli Jews forge a new civil society and a shared political community. To show how this can be done, Halper uses the 10-point program of the One Democratic State Campaign as a guide for thinking through the process of decolonization to its post-colonial conclusion. Halper???s unflinching reframing will empower activists fighting for the rights of the Palestinians and democracy for all.
When the Turks demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Israeli government followed suit, demanding the same ...of the then forthcoming First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide. This book follows the author's gutsy campaign against the Israeli government and his quest to successfully hold the conference in the face of censorship.
Az Izrael társadalmi életében szerepet játszó háromféle vallás miatt nem csak a társadalma és a mindennapok nagyon összetettek, de az oktatási rendszere. A társadalom vallási, politikai, kulturális ...és gazdasági sokszínűsége erős lenyomatot hagyott az oktatáson, ezen belül a kisebbségi tanulók ellátásán is. Az írás témája az izraeli oktatással, azon belül is a leghátrányosabb helyzetben lévő csoport, a beduin tanulók ellátásának a múltja és a jelenlegi helyzete. Napjainkban a beduinok adják a Negev lakosságának a harmadát (210.000 fő), akik az elmúlt évtizedekben folyamatosan tértek át a félig nomád életformáról az állandó lakóhelyeken élésre. Kb. 90 ezren élnek ismeretlen falvakban és táborokban, ami már önmagában is komoly nehézségek elé állítja az izraeli oktatáspolitikát. Az írás áttekintést ad a beduinok társadalmon belüli helyzetének az elmúlt 60-70 évben tapasztalt változásáról, az első iskola beindításának a körülményeiről, a nem fogyatékos beduin tanulók iskolai eredményességéről, továbbtanulási lehetőségeikről és jellemzőiről. Az oktatási rendszer működésének a megértéséhez elengedhetetlen, hogy megismerjük a beduin iskolákban dolgozó pedagógusok képzését és munkába állásának a jellemzőit.
National minorities and their behaviour have become a central topic in comparative politics in the last few decades. Using the relationship between the state of Israel and the Arab national minority ...as a case study, this book provides a thorough examination of minority nationalism and state-minority relations in Israel.
Placing the case of the Arab national minority in Israel within a comparative framework, the author analyses major debates taking place in the field of collective action, social movements, civil society and indigenous rights. He demonstrates the impact of the state regime on the political behaviours of the minorities, and sheds light on the similarities and differences between various types of minority nationalisms and the nature of the relationship such minorities could have with their states.
Drawing empirical and theoretical conclusions that contribute to studies of Israeli politics, political minorities, indigenous populations and conflict issues, this book will be a valuable reference for students and those in policy working on issues around Israeli politics, Palestinian politics and the broader Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
A Raid on the Red Sea is the thrilling, real-life tale of
illegal gun-running in the Middle East. In this firsthand account,
Amos Gilboa gives the harrowing details of the secret close-working
...relations between Israeli and American intelligence in the seizure
of the Karine A ship, the most successful Israeli
intelligence operation since the legendary Entebbe hostage rescue.
At 0400 hours, January 3, 2002, two fast boats of Israel's naval
commando unit closed in on the stern of the Palestinian Authority's
Karine A . The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
had clandestinely loaded its cargo: fifty-six tons of high-grade,
long-range weapons destined for the Gaza Strip. The Israelis' plan
to seize it went awry when they found nothing but a confused group
of Egyptians, Jordanians, and Palestinians. Had they boarded the
wrong ship? Was there going to be an international incident
disgracing Israel? This drama has more than its share of plot
twists. The story's hero, a low-level female intelligence analyst,
was the first to grasp the grave danger posed by the Karine
A . Analyzing piles of disinformation, she kept on the scent of
the ship, tracking it from Egypt to Sudan to Dubai. Only through
the joint efforts of Israeli and U.S. naval intelligence, Mossad
and the CIA, was the ship stopped and calamity averted. Seizing the
ship led to a fateful reorientation of U.S. policy regarding the
Middle East with consequences to this day, from the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the 2020 assassination of Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force chief Qasem Soleimani.
Within a short span of time in the course of the 1980s, the Supreme Court of Israel effected far-reaching changes in its legal doctrine and in the way it perceives its role among the state's ...branches. This book locates those changes in the context of the great historical process that took shape in Israel in the second half of the 1970s: the decline of the political, social, and cultural hegemony of the labor movement, and the renewal of the struggle over the future orientation of the country's culture. Two social groups have confronted each other at the heart of this struggle: a secular group that is aiming to strengthen Israel's ties to Western liberalism, and a religious group intent on associating Israel's culture with traditional Jewish heritage and the Halakhah. The Supreme Court — the institution most closely identified with liberalism since the establishment of the state — collaborated with the former group in its struggle against the latter. The story of the Court serves as the axis of another two stories. The first deals with the struggle over the cultural identity of the Jewish people throughout the course of modernity. The second is the story of the struggle over the cultural identity of Israeli law, which took place throughout the 20th century. In addition to the divide between secular and religious Jews, there is a national divide in Israel between Jews and Arabs. These two divides are interrelated in complex ways which shape the unique traits of Israel's multicultural condition. The book ends with a few suggestions as to how, given this condition, Israel's regime, political culture and law should be constituted in the coming decades. The suggestions borrow from the discourses of liberalism, multiculturalism, and republicanism.
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