Dismantling the Villa in the Jungle: Matzpen, Zochrot, and the Whitening of Israel

Becke, Johannes

doi:10.1080/1369801x.2018.1558095

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“…17-95;Segev, 2001). Modern Israel remains so: despite official Israeli efforts to portray the state as a multicultural haven-a democratic "villa" in a backwards "jungle" (Becke, 2019)-it is in fact a deeply segregated state in which Jews and Palestinians are prevented from mixing in a variety of formal and informal ways, including strict criteria placed on Arabs who want to reside in predominately-Jewish localities, the existence of separate education systems for Arabs and Jews, and the persistence of anti-miscegenation policies (Diab et al, 2022;Haddad Haj-Yahya & Rudnitzky, 2018;Starr, 2023). Indeed, Israel continues to discourage interracial relationships in a variety of legal and extra-legal ways.…”

Section: Policing Relationships: Anti-miscegenation and National Excl...mentioning

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Contaminating National Identity Through Intercultural Intimacy: (Im)purity and the Pandemic

Abu Rass,

Jerreat-Poole

2023

JCRI

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This paper brings together the threads of contagion, intimacy, and national identity in an exploration of border crossings. Framed through the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of vaccine nationalism, we interrogate the discourse of contagion and impurity and trace the ways it has been used by self-interested elites to advance ethnonational, exclusivist agendas. Using the authors’ relationship as a jumping off point for critical and cultural analysis, we use intimacy, affect, and illness as hinges between bodies, identities, and geographies. We argue that non-traditional, queer, cross-cultural relationships and encounters are sites through which to interrogate the violence of borders and to subvert the exclusion and hierarchy inherent to nationalism as a political project. We offer an experimental model for performing political and cultural research across disciplinary boundaries, advancing knowledge dissemination between and across fields.

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Section: Policing Relationships: Anti-miscegenation and National Excl...mentioning

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Contaminating National Identity Through Intercultural Intimacy: (Im)purity and the Pandemic

Abu Rass,

Jerreat-Poole

2023

JCRI

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Post-Zionism and Israel

Becke¹

2021

The Palgrave International Handbook of Israel

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Saharan Zion: state evasion and state-making in modern Jewish and Sahrawi history

Becke¹

2019

Journal of Israeli History

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Dismantling the Villa in the Jungle: Matzpen, Zochrot, and the Whitening of Israel

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

Contaminating National Identity Through Intercultural Intimacy: (Im)purity and the Pandemic

Contaminating National Identity Through Intercultural Intimacy: (Im)purity and the Pandemic

Post-Zionism and Israel

Saharan Zion: state evasion and state-making in modern Jewish and Sahrawi history

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