Abstract
The efforts by the sixth Netanyahu government to weaken the Israeli Supreme Court and the emergence of the largest protest movement in the history of the country are extreme expressions of a profound disagreement among Jews in Israel regarding significant aspects of their collective national identity and the desired character of the nation-state. In this article, respondents to a surveyconducted during the peak of the protest were sorted into five nationalism types,and differences in their attitudes about governmental policy and participation in protest activities were examined. High support rates for the policy were found among ethnoreligious nationalists and ultranationalists who carry an ethno-nationalistic citizenship discourse. Resistance to governmental policy was prevalent among critical nationalists whose citizenship discourse is liberal, buttheir share in the population is relatively small. Within the opposition to the policy in general, and particularly among participants in the protest, the vast majorityare ethno-republican or ethnocentric nationalists whose citizenship discourse is ethno-republican, which grants collective rights to Jews only, allocates resources according to a hierarchy of good citizenship, and does not consider the libertiesand rights of Palestinians in the occupied territories. The possibility that the protest would lead to democratization depends on decoupling citizenship and rights from ethnicity and nationalism.
Translated title of the contribution | The Awakening of Ethno-Republicanism in Israel and its Battle against Ethno-National |
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Original language | Hebrew |
Pages (from-to) | 143-149 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | סוציולוגיה ישראלית: כתב-עת לחקר החברה הישראלית |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 2 |
State | Published - 2023 |
IHP Publications
- ihp
- Ethnic groups
- Israel -- Social conditions
- Nationalism
- Protest movements -- Israel -- History -- 21st century