Summary
Co-author, with Alexander Yakobson, 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 positions Molavi attributes to the joint work in this part: that shortcomings of Israeli democracy are no proof “that a Jewish state is by definition contrary to democratic principles” (Yakobson and Rubinstein 2009, 118, as quoted, PDF p.145); that “[t]he UN Partition Plan was doomed to failure by the Arab-Palestinian leadership and the countries of the Arab league, who rejected it and went to war” (2009, 59, as quoted, PDF p.145); and that criticizing the Jewish state denies the principle of two states for two peoples (2009, 14, as quoted, PDF p.147).
- Molavi’s counter, directed at the joint work: its framework gives Jewish-Israelis the privileges of both a majority and a minority population, oscillating between a strong and a vulnerable disposition depending on the preferred political discussion, and deprives Arab citizens and non-citizens under Israeli control of any means of challenging the racialized legislation and practices of the Jewish state (PDF p.148-149).
Related pages
Stateless Citizenship (2013), Alexander Yakobson, Israel and the Family of Nations, UN General Assembly Resolution 181