1st Edition

Hijacking the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Edited By Asaf Romirowsky Copyright 2022
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

The importance of reclaiming the scholarly language of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict cannot be overstated as entire disciplines, including Middle Eastern Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and Ethnic Studies have come under the spell of these politicised fads with the attendant perversion of standards of evidence and open inquiry. Wielded by scholar-activists, the vast majority of whom do not... Read more

Introduction

Asaf Romirowsky

1. The gatekeepers

Donna Robinson Divine

2. Word crimes: choosing rationality over a moral panic

Cary Nelson

3. The Demopath’s Lexicon: a guide to Western journalism between the river and the sea

Richard Landes

4. Zionism - The integral component of Jewish identity that Jews are historically pressured to shed

Alyza D. Lewin

5. Can military service bridge social schisms: the case of Israel

Elisheva Rosman

6. Protests and political violence among Arab Knesset members

Gadi Hitman and Nir Sinay

7. Testing the social psychology of protest: empirical evidence from the Israeli experience

Alonit Berenson and Nir Atmor

8. Is religiosity a risk or a protective factor? The connection between religiosity and deviance among religious youths

Vered Ne’eman-Haviv, Wilchek- Aviad Yael and Lahav Chaim

9. Public policy for supporting employed family caregivers of the elderly: the Israeli case

Erez Cohen and Yael Benvenisti

10. Media portrayal of enemy leaders and public opinion toward peace: the cases of Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin 1987-95

Hila Lowenstein-Barkai

11. Shifting trajectory in India-Israel relations under Modi

Muhsin Puthan Purayil

Biography

Asaf Romirowsky is the Executive Director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME). Romirowsky is also senior non-resident research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) and Professor [Affiliate] at the University of Haifa.