"This book demonstrates why the Arab Spring, and especially events in Syria, provoked such deep fragmentation for Palestinians in Israel. It is based on the findings of governmental and public surveys. It shows that Arab-Palestinian citizens were dividedon the idea of integration with Israeli politics following the Arab Spring, while the younger generations wanted to search for alternatives to replace the existing political frameworks completely. The book covers the new policies adopted by the central government in Israel that have been formed since 2011 to strengthen civic discourse amongst Arab citizens"--
The Arab Spring initially ignited excitement for Arab society in Israel. But following the outbreak of the uprising in Syria, Israeli-Arab attitudes shifted. This book demonstrates why the Arab Spring, and especially the war in Syria, provoked such deep fragmentation for Palestinians in Israel. Based on governmental and public surveys, the book shows that many more Arab-Palestinian citizens became supportive of instrumental integration with Israeli politics following the Arab Spring. But the momentous events convinced other Arab citizens to abandon the connection between finding a solution for the Palestinian problem if it involved integration with the state. At the same time, this book reveals that the younger generations wanted to search for alternatives to replace the existing political frameworks completely and were inspired to form a new model of political activism. This is the first study to explore how the Arab Spring affected Arab society in Israel in terms of identity, political discourse and behaviour. In doing so it covers the new policy adopted by the central government in Israel, formed after 2011 to strengthen civic discourse amongst Arab citizens. It has been neither Israelization nor Zionization; but Instrumental integration which meets the conditional citizenship offered by the state.
Recenzijos
The book is important for understanding the events of the Arab world itself, the situation in Israel in the broader context of the Middle East and of course for relations with the Palestinians, including the Arab citizens of Israel, and of course it is very much about the internal politics of the Arab minority, thus it also contributes to understanding the specific case of the Arab minority in Israel. There is no doubt that the book and the chapters relating to its subject matter are of first-class importance and that the entire book makes a very important contribution to the political and social context and culture as well as to the scientific understanding of an important issue. -- Asad Ghanem, Professor of Political Science, University of Haifa, Israel A welcome, useful and edifying reminder that Palestinians holders of Israeli citizenship are not insulated from the political trends that affect the Arab world. They are also forgotten Arabs who vibrate along with the events that shake their Arab environment and who share common societal and political features with it. * Gilbert Achcar, Professor, SOAS, University of London, author of The People Want: A Radical exploration of the Arab Uprising *
Daugiau informacijos
This book is the first to address the political implications of the Arab Spring on Palestinian-Arab society in Israel.
Preface.
Chapter 1: The Popular Uprisings: A General Overview..
Introduction.
The Arab Spring as a formative event
Why did the popular uprisings erupt in the Arab world?
Israel and the Arab Spring
Chapter 2: The Arab Minority in Israel and the Arab World An Ambivalent
Relationship.
Background.
The status of the Arab minority in the Jewish State.
Reciprocal political relations between the Arab minority in Israel and the
Arab world.
Chapter 3: The Political Discourse on the Arab Spring within Arab Society in
Israel
The political factions within Arab society in Israel
A confused discourse amid the disintegration of the political order in the
Arab world.
The Arab Spring in the eyes of educated Arabs in Israel
The Arab Spring as an Arab renaissance supporters of the Spring.
Resistance above all: Those who sympathise with the Baath regime.
The essentialist ethical camp.
Chapter 4: Organising among the Younger Arab Generation in Israel: A
Stillborn Movement
A new generation in the Arab world: The protest leaders.
The educated youth who took events into their own hands.
New media in the service of the younger generations civil protests.
Why was there no Palestinian Young Spring?
The 'Arab Spring' and the younger generation of Palestinians in Israel
The young generation within Arab society in Israel
The Kifah (Struggle) Movement
Shabab el-Taghyeer (Youth for Change)
Al-Harik Al-Shababi (The Youth Movement)
Urfod Refuse, Your People will Protect You.
Fundraising campaigns for Syrian refugees.
Humanity Crew.
Political activism influenced by the Arab Spring
Chapter 5: Undermining the National Discourse: Civil Debate, Communalism and
Religiosity within Arab Society in Israel
Real-life behaviour within a changing reality.
Arabs in military/national service and in the police.
A shift in government policy towards Arab citizens: From security threat to
economic burden.
Housing Plan No. 4432 (The Trajtenberg Committee)
Economic Plan No.
922.
Israels Muslim population and the Islamic State.
Christian Arabs and the Arab Spring: The dream and its demise.
The Druze and their fears for survival
Mansur Abbass turn-about: Rising from the bottom, not imposed from above.
The Breakup of The Joint List and the March 2021 Election.
Arab Society in Israel following Hamas's Attack on 7th October
Chapter 6: The Normativisation of Clanism in the Wake of the Arab Spring
The Development of the Clanism Concept and Theory.
Clans in the Arab world.
Clanism in Palestinian society.
Clanism as a mechanism of rule by the Israeli Military Government
The clan framework over time.
Clanism as a mechanism of rule: from the inception of the state to the
abolishment of the military government
Political parties, clans, and the betrayal of the educated class.
The institutionalization of the clans in the wake of the Arab Spring'
Results of the Arab local authority elections, 1978 ?
2018.
Conclusions.
An Epilogue
Bibliography
Yusri Hazran Khaizran is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Shalem College, Israel. He is also Research Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University, Israel. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard University, US, and received his PhD from the Hebrew University, Israel. He is the author of The Druze Community and the Lebanese State: Between Resistance and Reconciliation (2014). His main expertise is the social and political history of the Fertile Crescent.
Muhammad Khalaily is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Haifa University, Israel, and Visiting Scholar at the Advancement of Peace at the Department of Development Studies and International Relations, SOAS, University of London, UK. He received his Ph.D. from Haifa University, Israel.
