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Palestinian Protest: The Palestinian Question and the Global Israeli South (Part 2)

Series: Beyond Jews and Arabs: Israel and its Non-Europeans
Omri Ben Yehuda
March 29, 2022January 25, 2024

The crucial point is that Zionism’s colonization of the Jew himself, a notion at the core of early Zionist discourse, is now enabled by its focus on the distinction between “Jews” and “Arabs,” a binary which makes (Ashkenazi) Jews seem modern and secular.

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Abolishing the Jewish-Arab Divide (Part 1)

Series: Beyond Jews and Arabs: Israel and its Non-Europeans
Omri Ben Yehuda
March 15, 2022January 25, 2024

The “Palestinian cause/question” and the “Jewish question” are both expressions of European modernity, whether in the form of their currency of nationalism or genocidal practices, neither of which are acknowledged in Israel.

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Were There—and Can There Be—Arab Jews? (With Afterthoughts on the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism and Palestinian Jews)

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions
Moshe Behar
September 8, 2021September 23, 2021

The political realm must be tightly woven into every historical and contemporary reflection on Arab Jews.

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