binationalism

Israelis hold flags and dance during the Flag March at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, June 15, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Liberal Zionism is dying. Will foregoing the Jewish state save it?

A new book calls for Zionism to be re-envisioned as a binational project in order to shed Jewish historical trauma and salvage democratic values.

By Shaul Magid August 10, 2021

David Ben Gurion seen in the Knesset, February 11, 1961. (Fritz Cohen/GPO)

When Zionism imagined Jewish nationalism without supremacy

In his recent book, Dr. Dmitry Shumsky shows that, contrary to popular belief, the forefathers of Zionism did not envision a state based on Jewish supremacy. And yet Zionism, he says, inevitably involves the oppression of Palestinians. By Meron Rapoport No one was surprised when the authors of the Jewish Nation-State Law decided to write, in its opening clauses, that “The…

By +972 Magazine July 21, 2019

A home demolition in East Jerusalem. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Let’s not forget that East Jerusalem Palestinians are stateless

Two of Haaretz’s biggest names claim the violence in Jerusalem reveals the failure of ‘bi-nationalism.’ Perhaps they have forgotten that over 300,000 residents there live under occupation, rather than in any type of sovereign state. The stabbing of an Israeli soldier in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba and the killing of two Palestinian…

By Edo Konrad October 16, 2015

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. (State Dept. Photo)

For the sake of peace, it is time to put an end to negotiations

After 20 years of a failed and fictitious peace process, there is no more room for ‘processes’ that serve as substitutes for peace. There is nothing left to clarify between the two sides. The only possible compromise for a peace agreement is well known. By Rona Moran and Hana Amouri (Translated from Hebrew by Itamar…

By Haokets March 1, 2014

"Once I Entered a Garden" (2012), a film by Avi Mograbi

A new ‘home’: Building a future of multicultural belonging

By Inna Michaeli and Zohar Elmakias In his film “Once I Entered a Garden” (2012), Israeli director Avi Mograbi documents a series of meetings with his Arabic teacher, Ali Al-Azhari. Mograbi shares his dreams with Al-Azhari, along with biographical details about his Jewish-Lebanese family; together they imagine possible scrips about return and their intersection histories.…

By Cafe Gibraltar July 26, 2013

A Jew and a Palestinian face off (file photo, by Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Is a binational identity possible in Israel?

Two academics get into a public intellectual debate over secular national identity and the characteristics of binationalism in the future of Israel or binational state. Despite their bitter assaults against one another’s ideas, they are far closer than they realize. By Jeremiah Haber It’s open season on Prof. Shlomo Sand of Tel Aviv University in…

By +972 Magazine June 11, 2013