Plurality and Citizenship in Israel

This book focuses on the Jewish-Palestinian conflict within the state of Israel and the general issue of the role played by modern states in either mitigating majority-minority conflict or exacerbating it. A comparative study, the chapters that concentrate on theoretical models, and comparable historical, legal or political patterns of development.

Auteur

Dan Avnon teaches political thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Former founder and head of the Hebrew University's Gilo Center for Citizenship, Democracy and Civic Education, he currently heads The Federmann School of Public Policy and Government. Dan Avnon is also an advisor to Israel's parliament on matters of constitutional and civic education reform.

Yotam Benziman teaches in the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University, where he is a research fellow at the Gilo Center for Citizenship, Democracy and Civic Education. He is the also the co-editor of "Identities - Journal for Jewish Culture and Identity" at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Contenu

Preface: Plurality and Citizenship in Israel Dan Avnon and Yotam Benziman 1. Effective Plurality despite Categorical Rigidity Dan Avnon and Yotam Benziman 2. Plurality of Self and Pluralism: A View from Jerusalem Dan Avnon 3. Refugee Return: By Right and/or By Law Howard Adelman 4. Citizenship as a Home Yotam Benziman 5. Critical Reflection on Law, Equal Citizenship and Transformation Yousef T. Jabareen 6. The Complexity of Majority-Minority relations in Deeply Divided Democracies - Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives Ayelet Harel-Shalev 7. Inclusion in Administration Proceeding: The Case of the Community Impact Survey Hani Ofek-Ghendler 8. Policing Minorities in a Deeply Divided Society: Police Performance and Presence in Israel Badi Hassisi 9. Liberal Justice vs. Local Norms: On the Importance of Heterogeneity within Illiberal Communities Nahshon Perez 10. Conscription Crises: The Relationship between Citizenship and Military Service in Canada and Israel Andrew Theobald 11. Identity Politics and Women: Struggling for Peace at the Margins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Siobhan Byrne 12. Transnationalism and Diasporas: A Canadian Perspective Frederick Lowy