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Enclaves Enclaves
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Exclaves Exclaves
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The Lawmaker and the Law The Lawmaker and the Law
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God’s Sovereignty God’s Sovereignty
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Impossibilities Impossibilities
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Free to Be Jewish? Free to Be Jewish?
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9 The False Promises of Sovereignty: Enclaves, Exclaves, and Impossible Politics in the Jewish State
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Published:June 2021
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Abstract
This chapter examines the case of Israel, looking at the often ambivalent relationship between popular sovereignty, or the creation of a people who will be the vehicles of nation-state sovereignty, and the ways in which the state disciplines and maintains that “people.” Israel is the self-described Jewish state, a place where Jews should be free to be Jewish. Indeed, the national identity of sovereign citizens of Israel is not “Israeli,” it is “Jewish.” But this means that what will count as Jewishness must be formally defined and regulated. The chapter then considers two cases of observant Jewish Israelis who have come into conflict with state policies over what it means to be Jewish. The conflicts each of these groups — religious Zionists (dati leumi) and ultra-Orthodox (Haredim) — has with the state are nearly mirror opposites: one challenging the state to increase its sovereign power over contested territory and religious sites, the other rejecting such sovereignty. Both cases raise questions about the possibility of emancipation and the meaning of self-determination, which in turn suggests that the “who” of sovereign agency is never obvious, and always contested.
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