Summary
The Arab political scientist whose three-level analysis of Jewish dominance — declarative, structural and operational — structures Chapter 2 of Stateless Citizenship (2013), with the legislative level treated separately for its function in reproducing the Jewish nation-state (Stateless Citizenship (2013), PDF p.70).
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Ghanem (1998): the channelling of rights through Israel’s policy of Jewish dominance can be analyzed at three different levels: the declarative level, the structural level, and the operational level (PDF p.70).
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On the declarative level, Molavi cites Ghanem (1998, 432) for the visible symbols of the state — official holidays, the flag and other state symbols, the national anthem, the imposition of religious observances, street and road signs, regulated dietary laws — as built on the premise of Jewish social and political hegemony and completely dismissive of the Palestinian citizenry (PDF p.78).
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With Nadim Rouhana, Ghanem is cited for the Oslo process’s complete ignoring of the status of the Arabs in Israel: the Palestinians in Israel were not allies in building Palestinian national agencies, nor were their demands an important issue on the Palestinian national movement’s agenda (Rouhana and Ghanem 1998, 330, 333, at PDF p.98-99).
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In Stateless Citizenship (2013) Chapter 5, Ghanem’s The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel: 1948-2000 (2001) is the second publication singled out: Arab political development is “distressed”, divided into Israeli-Arab, communist, national and Islamic streams, stunted by the “iron wall erected by the Jewish-Zionist character of Israel” (Ghanem 2001, 157, as quoted), leaving Arabs only “partial Israelis” (2001, 176); his bi-national model is presented as the only channel for civil and national fulfilment (2001, 200) (PDF p.172-173).
Related pages
Stateless Citizenship (2013), Israeli Incorporation Regime, Nadim Rouhana