The Nation-State Law, Populist Politics, Colonialism, and Religion in Israel: Linkages and Transformations
This essay discusses the content of the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, focusing on its religious language. In doing so, it links the law with three points of gravity: religious-ethnonationalism, populism, and colonialism. Specifically, it highlights how the Nation-State...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2021
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Journal of ecumenical studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 56, Issue: 3, Pages: 347-362 |
| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BH Judaism KBL Near East and North Africa XA Law |
| Further subjects: | B
religious-ethnonationalism
B Settler-colonialism B Populism B Israeli-Palestinian conflict B the Nation-State Law |
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| Summary: | This essay discusses the content of the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, focusing on its religious language. In doing so, it links the law with three points of gravity: religious-ethnonationalism, populism, and colonialism. Specifically, it highlights how the Nation-State Law is a manifestation of the religious-right politics in Israel, which seeks to consolidate the Jewish nature of the state, to entwine the nature of Israel as a state for the Jews with its absence of borders, to devalue the political significance of citizenship, and to gain a wide consensus on the right of self-determination as a religious right derived from the Jewish sacred texts rather than as a political right based on international law. |
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| ISSN: | 2162-3937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of ecumenical studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/ecu.2021.0022 |