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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107044839 ISBN 13: 9781107044838

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description:

This volume, with contributions by Arab, Israeli, and American scholars, examines the status of the Palestinian citizens in Israel and their collective experience as both citizens and settler-colonial subjects. It presents new perspectives of Israeli and Palestinian society, ethnic privileging, and dynamics of social conflict.

About the Author:

Nadim N. Rouhana is Professor of International Affairs and Conflict Studies, and Director of the Program on International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Massachusetts. He is also the Founding Director of Mada al-Carmel - Arab Center for Applied Social Research, Haifa. His research includes work on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Israeli and Palestinian societies, the dynamics of protracted social conflict, collective identity and democratic citizenship in multi-ethnic states, the questions of reconciliation and multicultural citizenship, transitional justice, and international negotiations. His publications include Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State: Identities in Conflict (1997) and numerous academic articles.

Sahar S. Huneidi holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Manchester and is author of A Broken Trust: Herbert Samuel, Zionism and the Palestinians (2001). Huneidi has been Director of East and West Publishing Ltd since 2008.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1107044839
• ISBN 13: 9781107044838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 462
• Editor: Rouhana Nadim N.