This chapter critically explores the potential of democratic citizenship and civic education to a... more This chapter critically explores the potential of democratic citizenship and civic education to accommodate and settle social and political problems in deeply divided and intertwined societies. It argues that while the ever-growing and various forms and conditions of regional and global entwinements weaken the tight association between territorial nation-state, rights and citizenship, these conditions also pave the way for a different, reconfigured, notions of citizenship and civic education. These reconfigured notions transcend conventional national borders and endow citizenship and civic education with at least two additional and transnational potentials that are often ignored or underestimated, namely regional integration and normalization. These capacities, the chapter goes on to argue, considerably strengthen the ability of democratic citizenship and civic education to contribute to mitigating, accommodating, and sometimes even solving otherwise lingering and intractable political and social conflicts.
In light of the increasing unlikelihood of a two-state solution, several integrative solutions ha... more In light of the increasing unlikelihood of a two-state solution, several integrative solutions have been proposed as alternative visions for settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Offering a nuanced conceptual map of the various proposals for inclusive, egalitarian political visions for all the inhabitants of Israel/Palestine, this article identifies three strands of integrative approaches: liberal, binational, and shared sovereignty. It critically assesses the strengths and weaknesses of these integrative strands and evaluates integrationists' preference for historical reconciliation as an alternative framework to the peacemaking discourse of the Oslo peace process.
Theorizing the possibility of thinking the Jewish Holocaust and the Palestinian Nakba together al... more Theorizing the possibility of thinking the Jewish Holocaust and the Palestinian Nakba together along binational lines
In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holoca... more In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed separately and in abstraction from the constitutive historical global contexts of nationalism and colonialism, The Holocaust and the Nakba explores the historical, political, and cultural intersections between them. The majority of the contributors argue that these intersections are embedded in cultural imaginations, colonial and asymmetrical power relations, realities, and structures. Focusing on them paves the way for a new political, historical, and moral grammar that enables a joint Arab-Jewish dwelling and supports historical reconciliation in Israel/Palestine.
This book does not seek to draw a parallel or comparison between the Holocaust and Nakba or to merely inaugurate a “dialogue” between them. Instead, it searches for a new historical and political grammar for relating and narrating their complicated intersections. The book features prominent international contributors, including a foreword by Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury on the centrality of the Holocaust and Nakba in the essential struggle of humanity against racism, and an afterword by literary scholar Jacqueline Rose on the challenges and contributions of the linkage between the Holocaust and Nakba for power to shift and a world of justice and equality to be created between the two peoples. The Holocaust and the Nakba is the first extended and collective scholarly treatment in English of these two constitutive traumas together.
This chapter critically explores the potential of democratic citizenship and civic education to a... more This chapter critically explores the potential of democratic citizenship and civic education to accommodate and settle social and political problems in deeply divided and intertwined societies. It argues that while the ever-growing and various forms and conditions of regional and global entwinements weaken the tight association between territorial nation-state, rights and citizenship, these conditions also pave the way for a different, reconfigured, notions of citizenship and civic education. These reconfigured notions transcend conventional national borders and endow citizenship and civic education with at least two additional and transnational potentials that are often ignored or underestimated, namely regional integration and normalization. These capacities, the chapter goes on to argue, considerably strengthen the ability of democratic citizenship and civic education to contribute to mitigating, accommodating, and sometimes even solving otherwise lingering and intractable political and social conflicts.
In light of the increasing unlikelihood of a two-state solution, several integrative solutions ha... more In light of the increasing unlikelihood of a two-state solution, several integrative solutions have been proposed as alternative visions for settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Offering a nuanced conceptual map of the various proposals for inclusive, egalitarian political visions for all the inhabitants of Israel/Palestine, this article identifies three strands of integrative approaches: liberal, binational, and shared sovereignty. It critically assesses the strengths and weaknesses of these integrative strands and evaluates integrationists' preference for historical reconciliation as an alternative framework to the peacemaking discourse of the Oslo peace process.
Theorizing the possibility of thinking the Jewish Holocaust and the Palestinian Nakba together al... more Theorizing the possibility of thinking the Jewish Holocaust and the Palestinian Nakba together along binational lines
In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holoca... more In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed separately and in abstraction from the constitutive historical global contexts of nationalism and colonialism, The Holocaust and the Nakba explores the historical, political, and cultural intersections between them. The majority of the contributors argue that these intersections are embedded in cultural imaginations, colonial and asymmetrical power relations, realities, and structures. Focusing on them paves the way for a new political, historical, and moral grammar that enables a joint Arab-Jewish dwelling and supports historical reconciliation in Israel/Palestine.
This book does not seek to draw a parallel or comparison between the Holocaust and Nakba or to merely inaugurate a “dialogue” between them. Instead, it searches for a new historical and political grammar for relating and narrating their complicated intersections. The book features prominent international contributors, including a foreword by Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury on the centrality of the Holocaust and Nakba in the essential struggle of humanity against racism, and an afterword by literary scholar Jacqueline Rose on the challenges and contributions of the linkage between the Holocaust and Nakba for power to shift and a world of justice and equality to be created between the two peoples. The Holocaust and the Nakba is the first extended and collective scholarly treatment in English of these two constitutive traumas together.
Recent years have seen a revitalisation of decolonisation as a framework of analysis in the Israe... more Recent years have seen a revitalisation of decolonisation as a framework of analysis in the Israeli– Palestinian conflict. This article maps changes in the meanings attached to decolonisation in the Israeli Israeli–Palestinian context, paying particular attention to the one-state paradigm. One-state proposals highlight bi-national realities in historic Palestine in order to lay out a decolonising vision grounded in equal civic rights. Many one-state advocates, however, are suspicious of a prescriptive bi-national paradigm that would afford the two national groups equal collective rights, primarily because its recognition of Jewish national self-determination is seen as entrenching, rather than decolonising, colonial relations of power. We argue that a prescriptive bi-nationalism in fact offers rich resources for a decolonising project in Israel/Palestine that seeks to establish a polity based on the principles of justice and equality – come to terms with historical injustice and imagine alternative pasts, presents and futures based on Arab–Jewish relationships.
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This book does not seek to draw a parallel or comparison between the Holocaust and Nakba or to merely inaugurate a “dialogue” between them. Instead, it searches for a new historical and political grammar for relating and narrating their complicated intersections. The book features prominent international contributors, including a foreword by Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury on the centrality of the Holocaust and Nakba in the essential struggle of humanity against racism, and an afterword by literary scholar Jacqueline Rose on the challenges and contributions of the linkage between the Holocaust and Nakba for power to shift and a world of justice and equality to be created between the two peoples. The Holocaust and the Nakba is the first extended and collective scholarly treatment in English of these two constitutive traumas together.
This book does not seek to draw a parallel or comparison between the Holocaust and Nakba or to merely inaugurate a “dialogue” between them. Instead, it searches for a new historical and political grammar for relating and narrating their complicated intersections. The book features prominent international contributors, including a foreword by Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury on the centrality of the Holocaust and Nakba in the essential struggle of humanity against racism, and an afterword by literary scholar Jacqueline Rose on the challenges and contributions of the linkage between the Holocaust and Nakba for power to shift and a world of justice and equality to be created between the two peoples. The Holocaust and the Nakba is the first extended and collective scholarly treatment in English of these two constitutive traumas together.