RegionEthnic Politics in Israel
The Margins and the Ashkenazi Centre
By As'ad Ghanem
- Price: $130.00
- Binding/Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 978-0-415-54735-2
- Publish Date: November 18th 2009
- Imprint: Routledge
- Pages: 240 pages
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
Description
This book offers an analysis on contemporary Israeli democracy, examining in particular society and politics from the perspectives of the different ethnic groups outside of the Ashkenazi mainstream.
The book explores the political expressions of the secondary groups in Israel (Mizrahim, Religious, Russians and Palestinian-Arab) and how these groups where treated by the Ashkinazim as a threat to its hegemony over the state. Looking at the instability created by the struggle of these marginal groups against the state, and the discrimination policy practiced by the Ashkenazi 'hegemonic ethnic state' regime against the other, non-Ashkenazi, groups, the book illustrates how this has contributed to the failure to establish an ‘Israeli people’.
Ethnic Politics in Israel will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of Middle East, Palestinian, Arab, Jewish and Israeli studies, political science, sociology and psychology.
Contents
1. Israel as Hegemonic Ethnic State and the Politics of Groups Identity 2. The Palestinian Minority in Israel: Resisting the 'Ethnocratic' System 3. Oriental Jews and the Ashkenazi System: Incorporation Vs. Separation Politics 4. The Jewish Religious Groups and the Politics of Identity in the 'Secular-Jewish' State 5. The Russian Immigrants: Imposing Multi-Culturalism in the Public Sphere in Israel 6. Groups Divisions, External Conflict and Political Instability in Israel since Oslo 7. Conclusion: The Future of Group Politics in Israel