Israel and its Palestinian Citizens
Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State

This volume examines the status of the Palestinian citizens in Israel and explores ethnic privileging and the dynamics of social conflict.

Nadim N. Rouhana (Edited by), Sahar S. Huneidi (Assisted by)

9781107044838, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 February 2017

462 pages
23.6 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.75 kg

'Israel and its Palestinian Citizens is a welcome contribution to the literature about the Palestinians in Israel. Its focus on the foundational underpinnings of ethnic privilege means that it will be relevant for years to come, as these foundational underpinnings are not likely to change anytime soon.' Mazen Masri, Journal of Palestine Studies

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.

Subject Areas: Law & society [LAQ]