State and minority in Israel: the case of ethnic state and the predicament of its minority

Ghanem, As’ad

doi:10.1080/014198798329892

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“…Considering the sociopolitical context in Israel (Ghanem, 1998;Smooha, 1996), it is clear to all that the idea of creating Palestinian-Jewish coeducation is a daring enterprise. The Center for Bilingual Education in Israel (CBE) was established in 1997 with the aim of initiating and fostering egalitarian PalestinianJewish cooperation in education, mainly through the development of bilingual, binational and multicultural integrated educational institutions.…”

Section: Sociopolitical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Palestinian-Jewish Bilingual Education in Israel: Its Influence on Cultural Identities and its Impact on Intergroup Conflict

Bekerman¹,

Shhadi²

2003

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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This paper reports on a rather small cross-sectional study conducted with students studying in an integrated bilingual Palestinian-Jewish school and with similar age students studying in standard segregated Palestinian-Jewish schools in Israel.The interviews performed allow us to become acquainted with the children's conceptions of issues regarding their own Jewish and Palestinian cultural identity as these are shaped through the interaction in school and the larger communal context and how they envision the conflict and their present and future relations with the 'other'.The study was conceived as a first step towards a longitudinal study on the long-term influence of bilingual education on students, their cultural identities and their perceptions of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.All in all we believe our study contributes valuable information on the potential of bilingual education to shape identities in conflict-ridden environments and the possibility of healing through these educational efforts.

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Section: Sociopolitical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Palestinian-Jewish Bilingual Education in Israel: Its Influence on Cultural Identities and its Impact on Intergroup Conflict

Bekerman¹,

Shhadi²

2003

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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“…We lack direct measures of socioeconomic status, but we can distinguish Jewish and Arab ethnicity, which in the Israeli context is correlated with socioeconomic status. Israeli Arabs have lower levels of education, employment, income, and wealth and suffer from residential, educational and occupational segregation and discrimination (Ghanem 1998;LewinEpstein and Semyonov 1992;Okun and Friedlander 2005;Semyonov and LewinEpstein 2011) We exclude the small percentage (approximately four percent) of non-Arab, non-Jewish population, and conduct an analysis stratified by ethnicity.…”

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The Hidden Costs of War: Exposure to Armed Conflict and Birth Outcomes

Torche¹,

Shwed²

2015

SocScience

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Abstract:Research suggests that prenatal exposure to environmental stressors has negative effects after birth. However, capturing causal effects is difficult because exposed women may be selected on unobserved factors. We use the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war as a natural experiment and a siblings fixed-effects methodology to address unobserved selectivity by comparing exposed and unexposed births of the same mother. Findings indicate that exposure to war in early and mid-pregnancy lowers birth weight and increases the probability of low birth weight. The effect is not driven by geographic sorting, migration, or increased miscarriages. Given that birth weight predicts health, developmental, and socioeconomic outcomes, prenatal exposure to acute stress may have long-term effects over the life course.

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“…However, most theorists recognise that ethnic rule operates differently in both contexts, with ethnocratiser states forced by their democratic facade to offer considerably more rights to the subjugated Other than outright authoritarianism would require (Smooha, 2002a, p.480;. Even those who emphasise the ethnic rule common to both (Ghanem, 1998) make a distinction between states where domination is achieved via electoral process, and those where it is achieved via authoritarian subjugation (Ghanem, 1998;2009, p.463). (Piterberg, 2001, p.56;Sa'di, 2004, p.142).…”

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“…They pay attention to the evolving meaning and status of Jewishness and Zionism (Shimoni, 1995), but essentialism regarding Jewish identity still prevails. Even scholars disputing the democratic legitimacy of Israel (Ghanem, 1998) or criticising the etatist frames of scholars (Rabinowitz, 2001, pp. 64-5) have paid insufficient attention to the doing of ethnicity; an analysis which needs to commence by approaching it as a social construction.…”

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Ethnocracy Without Groups: Conceptualising Ethnocratiser States Without Reifying Ethnic Categories

Attwell

2015

Ethnopolitics

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Attwell, K. (2016) Ethnocracytheir populations. They do so by demarcating the population into ethnic categories. They apply labels to individuals and hierarchically order the categories to which they are deemed to belong, awarding one cohort more privilege than the other. Existing literature on such states has obscured the processes by which states reify and institutionalise identity, instead presenting it through groupist frames in which ethnicity is a pre-existing variable. Reconceptualising the doing of ethnicity as a process enables us to study internal dissent against ethnic privilege and consider its transformational capacity in inspiring new nationalist discourses.

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State and minority in Israel: the case of ethnic state and the predicament of its minority

Cited by 113 publications

References 7 publications

Palestinian-Jewish Bilingual Education in Israel: Its Influence on Cultural Identities and its Impact on Intergroup Conflict

Palestinian-Jewish Bilingual Education in Israel: Its Influence on Cultural Identities and its Impact on Intergroup Conflict

The Hidden Costs of War: Exposure to Armed Conflict and Birth Outcomes

Ethnocracy Without Groups: Conceptualising Ethnocratiser States Without Reifying Ethnic Categories

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