Reframing bi-nationalism in Palestine-Israel as a process of settler decolonisation

Todorova, Teodora

Abstract

This paper examines some of the emerging critical civil society debates in relation to the one-state solution being the most appropriate geo-political arrangement for the articulation of freedom, justice and equality in Palestine-Israel. This is done with reference to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions’ 2012 statement in support of a bi-national state and the ensuing critiques it attracted from Palestinian supporters of the one-state position. Drawing on these debates which have largely revolved around Jewish Israeli rights to political self-determination in Palestine-Israel, this paper proposes that alternative versions of self-determination as cultural rights for the established Hebrew-speaking national community represent a more inclusive form of self-determination in the eventuality of decolonisation.

Citation

Todorova, T. (2015). Reframing bi-nationalism in Palestine-Israel as a process of settler decolonisation. Antipode, https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12153

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: May 6, 2015
• Deposit Date: Jul 21, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 21, 2015
• Journal: Antipode
• Print ISSN: 0066-4812
• Electronic ISSN: 1467-8330
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12153
• Keywords: Bi-Nationalism, Critical Activism, Decolonisation, Palestine-Israel, One-State, Self-Determination
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• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: odorova, T. (2015), Reframing bi-nationalism in Palestine-Israel as a process of settler decolonisation. Antipode, doi: 10.1111/anti.12153, which has been published in final form at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12153/abstract. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.