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Nationalising discourse vs. minorities' political demands: the case of the Palestinian minority in Israel

par Weinblum, Sharon
Editeur scientifique Danero Iglesias, Julien ;Stojanovic, Nenad;Weinblum, Sharon
Référence New NationStates and National Minorities, ECPR Press, Colchester, page (149-168)
Publication Publié, 2013

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Drawing on Brubaker‟s model of the nationalising state (Brubaker 1996), this chapter investigates if the discourse of the Israeli political central elite towards the Palestinian national minority may be defined as a nationalising differentialist discourse. Therefore, the chapteranalyses how the central elite in Israel, i.e., the dominant political actors, frame in their discourse, the question of the Palestinian minority‟s political involvement in the definition of the polity. Hence, the discourse analysis is based on political debates concerning the political participation of Palestinian parties and the political claims of the Palestinian minority, including their demand to turn the Jewish state into a state of all its citizens. The analysis leads to conclude that, when confronted with political expressions and claims from the Palestinian minority touching upon the regime definition, the Israeli central elite, with the exception of a small part, tend to construct these expressions, both as a security threat and as a danger to the state identity, hence deploying a differentialist nationalising discourse. The chapter ultimately contends that, under such circumstances, the room for real inclusion of the minority in the polity is greatly minimised, if not absent.