Counting people: The co-production of ethnicity and Jewish majority in Israel-Palestine

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Abstract

Two political peculiarities distinguish Israel from many democratic states. First, it rests on a duality of being both a liberal democratic state under the rule of law and the homeland of one exclusive ethnic group that rules militarily over another ethnic group. Other states with separate ethnic groups have managed to reconcile this contradiction by creating separate polities and territories for the group segregated from the political system, but Israel has never systematically implemented such a system. Leaving the ethnic conflict unresolved fosters a coexistence of several civic incorporation regimes in one society or anethnocracy, a regime motivated to

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTaking Stock
Subtitle of host publicationCultures Of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life
PublisherIndiana University Press
Pages114-140
Number of pages27
ISBN (Electronic)9780253020574
ISBN (Print)9780253020475
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2016

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