Jewish-Israeli National Identity and Dissidence [electronic resource] : The Contradictions of Zionism and Resistance /
Attwell, K.author.
A critical examination of Zionism and its internal resistance by Israeli Jews, this book employs a unique perspective on Israel/Palestine by eschewing presenting identities as concrete and, rather, examining their creation through discourse.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; A tale of two Zionists; The dilemma; The problematic situation (the 'Thing Without a Name'); The 'dissidents'; Narrative analysis; Othering the Other; Book outline; Part I Context; 1 Ressentiment and the State; Introduction; Ressentiment ethnic nationalist discourses; Ressentiment and ethnocratisation; Conclusion; 2 Ressentiment Zionism; Introduction; In the beginning, there was Zionism; Getting outside of Zionism; Ressentiment and Zionism; Structural factors: European life, transformations and the rise of ressentiment
Ressentiment vignettesThe historical narrative as cultural factor; Ressentiment Zionism goes to Palestine;  finds an Evil Other there ...; The Evil Other: from European to Arab; The tragic trajectory of Cultural Zionism; Conclusion; 3 The Dissidents' Context; Introduction; The Charter is laid: the Declaration of Independence and Law of Return; From Charter to commonsense; Education and ressentiment; The Holocaust and ressentiment; Five legal categories of Other ... and one symbolic one; The 'Israeli Arab' Other; The refugee Other; 'Generic' Arabs and collapsible Others; The occupied Other
The Other and the Us in the mediaRessentiment to the present day; Conclusion; Part II Dissent; 4 Meet the Dissidents; Introduction; Academics; Oren Yiftachel; Neve Gordon; Uri Davis; Activists; Jeff Halper; Eitan Bronstein; Jeremy Milgrom; Yonatan Pollack; Writers/commentators; Gideon Levy; Gilad Atzmon; Dorit Rabinyan; Meron Benvenisti; Conclusion; 5 Themes of Dissident Dissonance: Historicisation and Identification; Introduction; Attraction to Zionism; The past: 'national' history; The beginning; Conclusion; 6 Themes of Dissident Dissonance: Zionism and the Self; Introduction
Fear for the UsSelf-interest; Reconciling with personal pasts; What does it mean to be clean?; 7 Dissident Discourses; Introduction: limitations and discontinuities; The discourses; Hegemonic ressentiment Zionist discourse; The civic discourse; The binational discourse; The Kinder Zionist discourse; The post-Zionist discourse; The inverted ressentiment discourse; Dissidents using discourses; Civic discourse; Binational discourse; Kinder Zionist discourse; Post-Zionist discourse; Inverted ressentiment; Ressentiment discourse; Conclusion; 8 Conclusion; Introduction
Ressentiment to the 'hostile outsider'Ressentiment and new Others; Three stories of promise; Conclusion: the contributions of this book; Appendix: The Dissidents at a glance; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A critical examination of Zionism and its internal resistance by Israeli Jews, this book employs a unique perspective on Israel/Palestine by eschewing presenting identities as concrete and, rather, examining their creation through discourse.
International relations.
Political science.
Political theory.
Judaism and culture.
Judaism.
International Relations.
Political Science.
Political Theory.
Jewish Cultural Studies.
Judaism.