קול משלה: פמיניזם מזרחי במשפט הישראלי

The article challenges the colorblind paradigm enfolded within Israeli jurisprudence. It argues that Israeli jurisprudence largely misses the heterogeneity of Israeli women and views them binarily as either Jews or Arabs, but not as Jewish Arabs. This lack of acknowledgement gives rise to an “inter sectional blindness” toward Mizrahi women which is in cognizant of their vulnerability as a disadvantaged minority among both women and Mizrahis. As a result, no body of knowledge has crystallized on the state mechanisms and on the sociolegal sites that have generated Mizrahi women’s Otherization and marginal citizenship in Israeli society. The article seeks to shatter this inter sectional blindness and to evince the nameless women of Israeli jurisprudence –those women who remain unacknowledged as a legitimate epistemological and legal category of a discriminated group. To this end, the article introduces the dissident voice of Mizrahi Feminism to Israeli jurisprudence, and suggests that the traditional methodological tool of the “woman question” should be replaced with a new methodological tool – the “which woman question” – that would, in turn, aid in identifying and weighing the inter sectional vulnerability of disadvantaged Israeli women.