The nation-state law, populist politics, colonialism, and religion in Israel: Linkages and transformations

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)347-362
Number of pages16
JournalJournal of Ecumenical Studies
Volume56
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2021

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