Israel and its Palestinian Citizens: Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State

Cambridge University Press, 2/9/2017
EAN 9781107622814, ISBN10: 1107622816

Paperback, 462 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm
Language: English

This volume presents new perspectives on Israeli society, Palestinian society, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Based on historical foundations, it examines how Israel institutionalizes ethnic privileging among its nationally diverse citizens. Arab, Israeli, and American contributors discusses the paradoxes of democratic claims in ethnic states, as well as dynamics of social conflict in the absence of equality. This book advances a new understanding of Israel's approach to the Palestinian citizens, covers the broadest range of areas in which Jews and Arabs are institutionally differentiated along ethnic basis, and explicates the psychopolitical foundations of ethnic privileges. It will appeal to students and scholars who seek broader views on Israeli society and its relationship with the Arab citizens, and want to learn more about the status of the Palestinian citizens in Israel and their collective experience as both citizens and settler-colonial subjects.

1. Conceptualizing privileged citizenship in the Jewish state
a settler Colonial paradigm Nadim N. Rouhana
Part I
2. Zionist theories of peace in the pre-State era
legacies of dissimulation and Israel's Arab minority Ian S. Lustick and Mattew Berkman
3. The first Israeli government (1948–50) and the Arab citizens
equality in discourse, exclusion in practice Hillel Cohen
4. The military rule
the years that shaped the relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens Yair Bauml
5. Zionism and equal citizenship
essential and incidental citizenship in the Jewish state Azmi Bishara
Part II
6. Mechanisms of governmentality and constructing hollow citizenship
Arab Palestinians in Israel Amal Jamal
7. The legal structure of subordination
the Palestinian minority and Israeli law Nimer Sultany
8. Controlling land and demography in Israel
the obsession with territorial and geographic dominance Yosef Jabareen
9. Israel's 'Arab economy'
new politics, old policies Raja Khalidi and Mtanes Shehadeh
10. The new face of control
Arab education under neo-liberal policy Ayman K. Agbaria
11. Settler colonialism, surveillance, and fear Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Part III
12. Palestinian social movement and protest within the Green Line
1949–2001 Ahmad H. Sa'di
13. The return of history Nadim N. Rouhana and Areej Sabbagh-Khoury.