Title: Civil organizations and protest movements in Israel : mobilization around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict /
Authors: Marteu, Elisabeth.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict Protest movements Israel.; Political activists Israel.; HISTORY.; Palästinafrage.; Political science & theory.; Politics and Government.; Protestbewegung.; Palestine History; Middle East History.
Abstract: "This collected volume brings together young scholars at the cutting edge of innovative research on Israeli citizens and organizations mobilized around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The objective of these original case studies is to understand the radicalization of some Israeli mobilizations linked to the conflict and to explore the growing polarization of Israeli democracy. The composite nature of Israeli society is explored through the fragmentation of civil movements: The settler movement, the peace movement, and also Israeli Arab organizations have all emerged since the mid-1970s, illustrating a rich mixture of civil dynamism, community tensions and antagonistic political visions. These pioneering, critical perspectives provide a wealth of theoretical and empirical information on the current state-society relations in Israel, the boundaries and borders in civil mobilization and on the prospects for Israeli democracy in the 21st century."--Book cover.
Contents: Foreword: Movement-Countermovement Dynamics and the Dynamics of Radicalization / B. Klandermans -- Introduction: Exploring new perspectives: Israeli civil mobilization and the Israeli Palestinian conflict/ E. Marteu --- I: ISRAELI SETTLER MOBILIZATIONS. 1. After the Gaza Withdrawal: the Settlers' Struggle over the Meaning of the Israeli National Identity/ D. Khalfa -- 2. American Orthodox Immigrants' Mobilization and Integration in Israel/ W. Kailani --- II: ISRAELI PEACE MOVEMENTS. 3. Political Activism and Legitimacy in Israel: Four Groups between Cooperation and Transgression/ K. Lamarche -- 4. Framing, Misframing, and Reframing: 'The Fiddler at Beit-Iba Checkpoint'/ R. Ginsburg -- 5. Activists Squeezed between the 'Apartheid Wall' and the 'Separation Fence': The Radicalism/Pragmatism Dilemma of Social Movements, The Case of the Israeli Separation Barrier / Y. Feinstein -- 6. Doves of Feather: A Comparative Analysis of Identity-Based Peace/Conflict Resolution Organizations (P/CROs) in Israel, Northern Ireland and South Africa / R. Schwartz -- 7. Looking Out of the Arabs: Mobilization in Favor of the Israeli Arab Sector in the Galilean Mitzpim Hilltop Settlements/ P. Renno --- III: PALESTINIAN ARAB ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM. 8. Lawyering for the Cause of the Arab Minority in Israel: Litigation as Means for Collective Action/ H. Sallon -- 9. Arab Palestinian Women's Organizations in Israel: Civil Organizations without National Movement?/ E. Marteu -- 10. The Battle for Recognition: Civil Society, Citizenship and the Political Rise of the Negev Bedouin/ R. Ratcliffe -- 11. Inhabitants' Mobilization for City Planning in East Jerusalem/ I. Salenson.