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‘Abandoned’ villages 95, 130, 192 Arabic language 58–59, 88–89, 125, 149, Abbas, Mahmoud ix 157, 167 Abdo, Nahla 92, 165, 172–173, 178–179, as existential or security threat 12–14, 185–186 17, 60–61, 65–69, 78, 139–140, 144, 159, Absentee Property Law, The 52, 94–96 177, 203–205 Abu Sitta, Salman 7, 9, 126 as national minority 3, 60, 66, 77, 127, Abu-Saad, Ismael 97 135–136, 162–163 Abunimah, Ali 99, 142 birthrate 138–140 Acre 44, 59, 68–69, 95, 126, 161, 199 civil society 11, 13–14, 53–56, 65–66, 2008 Acre Riots 68–69, 184–185 71–75, 78–79, 82–83, 88, 164 Adalah 2, 54–57, 72, 89, 91 control of (see also ‘Military Democratic Constitution, The Government’ and ‘Demographic (see also Appendix I) 79–81 engineering’) 3–4, 9–11, 42, 54, Inequality Report, The 50–53, 59–61, 63, 64–65, 78, 98–99, 101–102, 106, 129, 67–68, 71, 73, 75, 77, 97 137, 162–164, 204, 211 representation of Ameer Makhoul critical scholarship by (see ‘Social (see also ‘Ameer Makhoul’) 83–87 science’) Admissions Committees Law, The 53, 88 culture and art 2, 61, 127, 137, 147, 156, Agamben, Giorgio 18, 188 210–211 ‘Versuchspersonen’ 189 depiction in Israeli textbooks 90 bios/zoë 189–190, 192, 207, 210 discrimination of (see ‘Israel’) homo sacer (bare life) 188–193, 207, 210 education 54, 61, 87, 89–90, 93, 98, 127, sovereign ban 191–192, 195 159–160, 166–167 the ‘exception’ and the ‘example’ employment 11, 65, 93, 127, 160, 200 193–194, 196 expulsion of (see also ‘Nakba’) 7 zone of indistinction 191, 195–196 health 65, 80, 92, 97–98, 160, 200 Aghbarieh-Zahalka, Asma 64 identity card (Israeli) 107, 149, 153 Ahmad, Eqbal 121 incomplete ‘Israeli’ and ‘Palestinian’ Al-Tireh 126 identities 148–153 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on indigenous population 2–3, 7, 9–11, Palestine 147, 210 16, 40–41, 46, 48, 62, 80, 97, 113–116, Annapolis Conference 157–158 118, 126, 129–136, 138, 142, 160–161, Anti-Semitism 15, 46–47, 160 164–165, 167, 171, 209–210 Apartheid inequality of (see ‘Israel’) difference from racism 99–106 integration in Israeli society 3, 44, Israeli apartheid 95, 98–100, 104–105 116–118, 133, 135, 143, 152, 163, 204 regime in South Africa 98–100, Israeli surveillance of 9–10, 66, 69, 199 105, 121 literacy 89 Arab Movement for Change Palestinian refugees 1–2, 8–9, 11, 51–52, (Ra’am-Ta’al) 64 62, 74–75, 80, 95, 100, 105, 130–131, Arabic language (see ‘Arabs’) 136–137, 142–143, 158, 165, 175, 184 Arabs (Palestinian-Arabs) 171 political participation 4, 10–14, 63–82, ‘Israeli-Arab’ identity 20, 116–118, 118, 171, 174, 176, 215 135–137, 140, 150–153, 168 prisoners 84–86 ‘vision documents’ (see also Appendices religion/holy sites 1–2, 90–92, I and II) 79–82 127–128, 210 Arab land takeover (see ‘Land statelessness of 184–186, 194–196, expropriation’) 202, 214
women 60, 89, 92–93, 166, 178–179 Canada 7, 216 Zionist attitudes toward 50, 129–130, Caplan, Neil 8 208–209 Center on Housing Rights and Evictions Arabs in Israel, The (Sabri Jiryis) 94–96, (COHRE) 11, 93, 96 159, 204, 209, 211 Central Elections Committee Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel’s Control Ben-Shalom v. Central Elections of a National Minority (Ian Lustick) 88, Committee for the 12th Knesset 71, 73 114, 139, 147, 162–164, 203–204, 210 disqualification of Azmi Arendt, Hannah 34, 187–188 Bishara 72 Aristotle 25, 29 disqualification of Haneen Zoabi 77–78 Australia 7, 29 Chomsky, Noam 159, 211 Avineri, Shlomo 129 Citizens without citizenship 63, 176–178, Avishai, Bernard 155–157 180, 187 Citizenship Badil Resource Center for Palestinian and denationalization 29, 32 Residency and Refugee Rights 2, 11, and deterritorialization 23, 29 93, 95–96, 100, 143 and hospitality 108–113 Badiou, Alain 35 and non-citizens 26, 31–32, 35–36, Baker, Abeer 84 38, 188, 191–193 Balad (see also ‘Azmi Bishara’ and and the nation-state 26–32, 161–162 ‘Haneen Zoabi’) 64, 75–77 citizen-subject 18, 25–27, 32–37, Balfour, Arthur J. 43 191–192, 216 Barak, Ehud 13, 57 citizenship rights 18, 25–26, 33–34 Barkat, Nir 140 discourses of 4, 26–27, 32, 174 Basic Laws 60–61, 63, 71–73, 77, 96, 125, 157 equality, principle of 20, 24–27, 34, Bedouin (see also ‘Unrecognized 41, 121 villages’) 2, 97, 106 ethno-national citizenship 28, 33, 41, as Arabs 2 62, 121, 132, 144, 149, 169, 171–175, 179, Beer el-Sabi’ (Be’er Sheva) 10, 91 186, 201–202 Begin, Benny 2 group relations 4, 147 Ben-Gurion, David 14–15, 99, 129, 139, 147, in ancient societies 18, 25, 28–29, 35 173, 199, 201–202, 210–211 indigenous rights 37–41 Ben-Porat, Guy 25–27, 35 Jewish citizenship (see ‘Israel’) Benvenisti, Meron 8, 99 liberal citizenship 6, 20, 23–24, 26–27, Bethlehem 95 38, 173–176, 183, 215 apartheid wall around 199 minority rights 37–41 in UN Partition Plan 122–123 modern form 5, 18, 161–162 Jewish settlements 56, 101 multiculturalism 26, 30 Biopolitics 190, 192, 207–208 new actors of citizenship 32–33 Bishara, Azmi 72, 75–76, 99, 166, Otherizing 5, 18–19, 35–37 168–169, 180 passport regime 27, 30, 110, 161–162 Breaking the Silence 55 republican citizenship 28, 121, Britain 8–9, 29, 46, 89, 94–95, 123, 137, 173–176 160, 165, 204 Citizenship Law, The 56–58, 62, 149 British Mandate 3, 7–9, 11, 15–16, 47–48, Civil society (see ‘Arabs’) 52, 58, 82, 88–89, 93–95, 106, 113, 123, Coexistence 30, 44, 59, 64, 69, 80, 82, 176, 146, 150, 159, 198, 201, 204 185, 209–211 Arab Revolt (1936–1939) 94 in Altneuland (see also ‘Theodor Buber, Martin 15 Herzl’) 130–135 B’Tselem 200 without existence 22, 133, 187, 207, 210–212, 214 Calcagno, Antonio 35 Colonialism (see also ‘Zionism’) 5, 15, 19, Camp David Summit (see ‘Zionist- 43, 45–49, 94, 101–102, 105, 121, 123, Palestinian conflict’) 159–161, 166, 176