Summary
Co-author, with Amnon Rubinstein, of *Israel and the Family of Nations: The Jewish Nation-State and Human Rights* (2009), the liberal-Zionist reading of Israeli politics and history that Chapter 4 of Stateless Citizenship (2013) examines and answers (Stateless Citizenship (2013), PDF p.141-142).
Details
- The book’s main argument as quoted: ”… it is the denial of the legitimacy of the concept of a Jewish state that undermines the principles of universal equality, since it denies the right of the Jewish people to self-determination and national independence” (Yakobson and Rubinstein 2009, 2, PDF p.142).
- Its defence rests on UNSCOP’s 1947 rationale, on the principle of ‘two states for two peoples’, and on Israel as a state of all its citizens — each answered by Molavi in turn (PDF p.142-149).
- Molavi’s assessment of the joint work: a liberal account “designed to counter both Israeli and non-Israeli voices of criticism against the Zionist regime”, heavily lacking in any analysis of power, its coherence sustained only through selective readings of international legal texts, historical experiences and current political realities (PDF p.142).
Related pages
Stateless Citizenship (2013), Amnon Rubinstein, Israel and the Family of Nations, UN General Assembly Resolution 181