Summary
Historian of the Druze cited by Magid Shihade for the Druze community’s passage into the Israeli state and for the formation of Druze exceptionalism within it (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.4, 13, 16 / printed p.111, 120, 123).
Details
- Firro’s The Druzes in the Jewish State: A Brief History (Leiden: Brill, 1999) is cited, with Laila Parsons, The Druze between Palestine and Israel: 1947-1949 (2000), for the Druze cooperation under the 1948 military regime, the permit pressure on Druze farmers, and the imposition of military conscription as the first major split between the Druze and the rest of the Palestinian community (note 8) (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.4, 16 / printed p.111, 123).
- Firro’s ‘The Formation of the Exceptionalism of Druze in Israel’, Journal of Palestine Studies, 24, 2001 [citation as printed], is cited for Druze opposition to state policies arising not only from belonging to the larger Palestinian and Arab peoples but also from discrimination and land confiscation (note 20) (Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, PDF p.13, 16 / printed p.120, 123).
Related pages
Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Palestinian Subjects, Druze