Stateless Citizenship: The Palestinian-arab Citizens Of Israel

"Molavi has produced a richly-textured, and deeply engaging account of Palestinians and their place in Israel's citizenship regime. In both its impressive theoretical framing and comprehensive critique of liberal claims around citizenship, this book promises to be an essential reference point for many years to come."—Adam Hanieh, author of Lineages of Revolt“Citizenship has historically assumed membership of a sovereign nation state within a territory over which the state has a legitimate claim. In the modern world marginalized people are denizens rather than citizens in territories that are politically contested. This situation has given rise to a new vocabulary of semi-citizens, paperless citizens, and stateless citizens to describe contested state borders. Shourideh C. Molavi’s study of Palestinian-Arabs is an important contribution to both political theory and the ethics of hospitality.”—Bryan S. Turner, The Graduate Center CUNY"[Molavi] has contributed to showing that the Israeli state, from its inception to the latest legislation, is far from being a democracy in its discriminatory treatment of its non-Jews."—Miriam Scharf, International Socialism“[Molavi] has contributed to showing that the Israeli state, from its inception to the latest legislation, is far from being a democracy in its discriminatory treatment of its non-Jews.” –International Socialism Journal

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgements Introduction1. Liberal Citizenship: Ambiguities and InconsistenciesFraming citizenshipTheorizing citizenshipCitizenship beyond the stateProblematizing legal categorizationsRacial state, racialized citizenship2. The Israeli Incorporation RegimeColonizing the land of milk and honeyA multifaceted discriminationLegislative levelFormal and declarative levelsStructural and institutional levelsMass protests of October 2000Acre Riots of 2008The 2008-2009 War on GazaCriminalizing Arab Political Participation and DiscourseTargeting Arab MKs: From Bishara to ZoabiArab civil society: A non-state alternativeResponse to the rise of Arab civil society: The case of Ameer MakhoulOperative and budgetary levelIsraeli apartheid: Beyond South Africa3. Israeli HostipitalityFrom hospitality to Derridean ‘hostipitality’Oscillating between host and guestIsraeli ‘hostipitality’4. Liberal Pretence of a Jewish StateThe UN Partition Plan of 1947The principle of ‘two states for two peoples’Israel as a ‘state for all of its citizens’Rashid Bey: The de-Palestinianized ArabZionist democracy in a comparative contextIsraeli demographobiaLiberal rubber stamp for Israeli crimes5. From Citizenship to Stateless Citizenship‘Israeli’ and ‘Palestinian’ as incomplete identitiesDefining the ‘Israeli’ nationResearch on Palestinians in Israel: An OverviewFormulating Palestinian citizenship – Stateless citizenship6. The Anatomy of Stateless Citizenship Knowing the terrain: From the exception to the exampleAn exclusive inclusionA perpetual state of emergencyCoexistence without existenceConclusionAppendix I: Selections from The Democratic Constitution by Adalah: Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (20 March 2007)Appendix II: Selections from The Haifa Declaration by Mada al-Carmel: The Arab Center for Applied Social Research (15 May 2007)ReferencesIndex