TY - JOUR
T1 - Theorizing half-statelessness
T2 - a case study of the Nation-State Law in Israel
AU - Jamal, Amal
AU - Kensicki, Anna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/8/17
Y1 - 2020/8/17
N2 - In 2018, the state of Israeli citizenship completed a long-anticipated transformation. The passage of the Nation-State Law represented a formal and substantial reordering of the Israeli political sphere and the long-held contention that it prioritized democratic citizenship. Redefining the Israeli state in exclusively ethnic terms, the new law places its Palestinian citizenry in a precarious position, neither fully stateless, nor fully citizen, and in a state which dangerously approaches ‘inhuman.’ Drawing on the works of Jewish humanist philosopher, Hannah Arendt, we further develop the conceptual category to which she alludes in The Human Condition and Origins of Totalitarianism–‘half-statelessness.’ Applying Arendt’s arguments to the Palestinian case, we deepen previous analyses of the new Basic Law and citizenship studies more broadly, demonstrating how Israeli citizenship’s continuous evolution has reached its legislative apex and produced a phenomenon which transcends the typical prototypes of citizen and state and effectively de-humanizes its Palestinian citizens.
AB - In 2018, the state of Israeli citizenship completed a long-anticipated transformation. The passage of the Nation-State Law represented a formal and substantial reordering of the Israeli political sphere and the long-held contention that it prioritized democratic citizenship. Redefining the Israeli state in exclusively ethnic terms, the new law places its Palestinian citizenry in a precarious position, neither fully stateless, nor fully citizen, and in a state which dangerously approaches ‘inhuman.’ Drawing on the works of Jewish humanist philosopher, Hannah Arendt, we further develop the conceptual category to which she alludes in The Human Condition and Origins of Totalitarianism–‘half-statelessness.’ Applying Arendt’s arguments to the Palestinian case, we deepen previous analyses of the new Basic Law and citizenship studies more broadly, demonstrating how Israeli citizenship’s continuous evolution has reached its legislative apex and produced a phenomenon which transcends the typical prototypes of citizen and state and effectively de-humanizes its Palestinian citizens.
KW - Half-Statelessness
KW - Israel
KW - Nation-State Law
KW - Palestinian Citizens
KW - dehumanization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082434862&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13621025.2020.1745152
DO - 10.1080/13621025.2020.1745152
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AN - SCOPUS:85082434862
SN - 1362-1025
VL - 24
SP - 769
EP - 785
JO - Citizenship Studies
JF - Citizenship Studies
IS - 6
ER -