Sublime

Primordialism vs propositionism. A nation can be a group with shared ancestry, culture, and language, but it can also be based purely on ideas and voluntary association. Scale vs uniqueness. A nation needs sufficient scale to be able to defend itself, so it should adopt a broad definition of national membership.

Creating a strong Palestinian state next to a strong Israel will require Palestinians to give up their unrealistic dream and Israel’s dreaded nightmare of several million people returning to Israel who claim to be refugees from Israel. This so-called Palestinian right of return, more than any Israeli action, including the misguided continued occupa

of ethnic cleansing, brutal militarism, racism of several stripes, and even “pinkwashing”—exploiting its liberal policy toward lesbians and gays to

More fundamentally, the verdict denies Jews the right to determine those elements that comprise their identity and leaves the definition of what constitutes antisemitism to (often hostile) non-Jews.

Dans cette perspective apologétique,

Yasser Arafat rejected the Barak proposal, making it clear that he would never surrender the right of more than 4 million Palestinians to return to Israel rather than live in the Palestinian state with compensation.

Hence, we are more likely to accept a dangerous idea if it aligns with our own experiences and is supported by the people we value.

While industrial capitalism had melted away much of the structures of social life (traditional loyalties, customary rights, and obligations), advanced capitalism has, in Bauman’s view, melted any relationship between individual actions and those of political collectivities.92 The language of New Age literature renders this liquefaction as not only

Furthermore, as a number of scholars have argued, both the Soviet Union and the PRC strengthened novel or weakly rooted identities in many groups by institutionalizing them, assigning people to discrete ethnonational categories and distributing goods or authority on the basis of those…

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