Sublime

Rogers Brubaker

made a remarkable decision to change the definition of refugee—only for purposes of defining who is an Arab refugee from Israel—to include any Arab who had lived in Israel for two years before leaving.41 Moreover, an Arab was counted as a refugee if he moved just a few miles from one part of Palestine to another—even if he returned to the village i

Reflecting its intention, the legal definition of a refugee was someone who is outside her or his country of nationality and faces a ‘well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion’. It was unambiguously a product of its time and place, explicitly tempor

is that a deeper sense of belonging and “connection to a larger humanity gives people more freedom to express their individuality without fear of jeopardizing belonging.”

They remain pawns in the effort to flood Israel with a hostile population designed to destroy its character as a Jewish state.

With regard to Israel’s law of return, there has been continuing controversy about whether it is primarily a religious law, a family reunification law, a reaction to ethnic discrimination, or some combination of these historical factors.