Failed peace and the decline in liberalism in Israel: A spiral model

Feinstein, Yuval; Ben‐Eliezer, Uri

doi:10.1080/13629395.2018.1434595

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“…Another possibility is that social worldviews and perceptions of threat from the Palestinians may have reciprocal relationships with each other (e.g., individuals who perceive the world to be a dangerous place may be more likely to view the Palestinians as a threat to their safety and security which may exacerbate their beliefs that the world is a dangerous place). This view is consistent with the recent argument that increases in authoritarianism and perceptions of threat may be mutually reinforcing (Feinstein & Ben-Eliezer, 2019). Future research should attempt to gain a better understanding of the causal links between social worldviews, ideological attitudes, perceived threat from the Palestinians, and attitudes toward peace with the Palestinians by using experimental designs or longitudinal studies.…”

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The social worldviews of Israelis and attitudes toward peace with the Palestinians: The mediating roles of ideological attitudes and perceptions of threat.

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Besser²,

Andrews³

2021

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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The purpose of the present study was to examine the connections that the dangerous and competitive social worldviews of Israelis had with their attitudes toward peace with the Palestinians. More specifically, the focus was on the possibility that the associations these social worldviews had with attitudes toward peace may be mediated by the ideological attitudes of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation as well as the perceived threat from the Palestinians in a large community sample of Israelis (N = 1,236). The results of a serial parallel multiple mediation analysis revealed partial support for our hypotheses. As expected, the association that the dangerous social worldview had with attitudes toward peace with the Palestinians was mediated by right-wing authoritarianism and perceived threat from the Palestinians. However, the association that the competitive social worldview had with attitudes toward peace with the Palestinians differed from our expectations. More specifically, the competitive social worldview had a negative indirect association with attitudes toward peace with the Palestinians through both right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation but there was also an unexpected positive indirect association through perceived threat from the Palestinians. Discussion focuses on the implications of these results for understanding the roles that ideological attitudes and perceived threat may play in the connections between the social worldviews of Israelis and their attitudes toward peace with the Palestinians.

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The social worldviews of Israelis and attitudes toward peace with the Palestinians: The mediating roles of ideological attitudes and perceptions of threat.

Zeigler‐Hill¹,

Besser²,

Andrews³

2021

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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“…A second possible outcome of nation-disrupting events is a shift in the balance of political power between competing national identities. Such a shift occurred among Jewish Israelis in the aftermath of the al-Aqsa Intifada (2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005) and led to the current political dominance of xenophobic and militant ultranationalism (Del Sarto 2017;Feinstein and Ben-Eliezer 2019). A third possible result of nation-disrupting events is the emergence of new national identities and ideologies via either dialectical processes-as happened in post-Soviet and Yugoslav countries (Brubaker 1996:20)-or the amalgamation of existing national ideologies.…”

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The Tempest Within: The Origins and Outcomes of Intense National Emotions in Times of National Division

Feinstein¹

2021

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The growing interest in banal expressions of nationalism in everyday life has left the capacity of national identities to cause irregular attitudinal and behavioural reactions to changing circumstances undertheorized. To fill this gap, this article asks when, how, and why national identities have strong impact on public attitudes about events. The article introduces a theoretical framework, which integrates elements from humanistic philosophy, sociology of nationalism, political psychology, and sociology of emotions. National identity protects against existential threats but is precarious because the nation is a phantasmal object of identification whose 'existence' depends on contested narratives. Therefore, events that seem to threaten or promise to alter the perceived core elements of the nation (i.e., 'nation-disrupting events') evoke strong emotions, which motivate attitudinal shifts. Which affective reaction individuals experience depends on the meaning they attribute (spontaneously or in response to elite cues) to events vis-à-vis competing idealizations of the nation.

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“…Therefore, the relationships between Jews and Arab/Palestinians in Israel have always been characterized by considerable social distance and tension. In the past two decades, however, these relationships have further soured due to the failed peace process, the Second Intifada (2001–2006) and the ‘October events’, 8 the continuation of violence between Israel and the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and the rise of the nationalist right in Israel (Feinstein and Ben-Eliezer, 2018). This growing antagonism has increased tension and mutual suspicion in the daily interactions between Jews and Arab/Palestinians in shared workplaces (Baum, 2010).…”

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Keep a Stiff Upper Lip or Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve? Ethnic Identity and Emotion Management among Arab/Palestinians in Israel

Feinstein

Switat

2018

Sociology

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This study examines how emotion management is linked to subjective identity among members of ethnic minority groups in ethnically mixed workplaces. Data were drawn from interviews with Arab/Palestinian citizen residents of Israel. The results reveal three distinct strategies of emotion management: (1) Arab/Palestinians, regardless of their subjective identity, tend to conceal emotions during interactions with majority group members; (2) individuals who identify as ‘Arab’ also tend to regulate social interactions to avoid the emotional risks that accompany interactions with majority group members; (3) those who choose a ‘Palestinian’ label are more likely to actively express their ethnic identities despite the emotional risks associated with this type of identification. The findings suggest that emotion management is influenced not only by a person’s assignment to a social minority category (the emphasis of previous research), but also by a person’s subjectively defined identity.

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Failed peace and the decline in liberalism in Israel: A spiral model

Cited by 13 publications

References 21 publications

The social worldviews of Israelis and attitudes toward peace with the Palestinians: The mediating roles of ideological attitudes and perceptions of threat.

The social worldviews of Israelis and attitudes toward peace with the Palestinians: The mediating roles of ideological attitudes and perceptions of threat.

The Tempest Within: The Origins and Outcomes of Intense National Emotions in Times of National Division

Keep a Stiff Upper Lip or Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve? Ethnic Identity and Emotion Management among Arab/Palestinians in Israel

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