04702nam 22007215 450 991079302360332120211022020027.00-8122-9535-810.9783/9780812295351(CKB)4100000006370908(MiAaPQ)EBC5472956(DE-B1597)502045(OCoLC)1045629876(DE-B1597)9780812295351(EXLCZ)99410000000637090820181123d2018 fg 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Israeli Radical Left An Ethics of Complicity /Fiona WrightFirst edition.Philadelphia :University of Pennsylvania Press,[2018]©20181 online resource (205 pages)The Ethnography of Political Violence0-8122-5047-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --INTRODUCTION --Chapter 1. Performing Complicity --Chapter 2. Love, Mourning, and Solidarity --Chapter 3. Infiltrators, Refugees, and Other Others --Chapter 4. The Violence of Vulnerability --Chapter 5. Exiling the Self --Conclusion --Epilogue --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsIn The Israeli Radical Left, Fiona Wright traces the dramatic as well as the mundane paths taken by radical Jewish Israeli leftwing activists, whose critique of the Israeli state has left them uneasily navigating an increasingly polarized public atmosphere. This activism is manifested in direct action solidarity movements, the critical stances of some Israeli human rights and humanitarian NGOs, and less well-known initiatives that promote social justice within Jewish Israel as a means of undermining the overwhelming support for militarism and nationalism that characterizes Israeli domestic politics. In chronicling these attempts at solidarity with those most injured by Israeli policy, Wright reveals dissent to be a fraught negotiation of activists' own citizenship in which they feel simultaneously repulsed and responsible. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork, The Israeli Radical Left provides a nuanced account of various kinds of Jewish Israeli antioccupation and antiracist activism as both spaces of subversion and articulations of complicity. Wright does not level complicity as an accusation, but rather recasts the concept as an analysis of the impurity of ethical and political relations and the often uncomfortable ways in which this makes itself felt during moments of attempted solidarity. She imparts how activists persistently underline their own feelings of complicity and the impossibility of reconciling their principles with the realities of their everyday lives, despite the fact that the activism in which they engage specifically aims to challenge Jewish Israeli citizens' participation in state violence. The first full ethnographic account of the Israeli radical left, Wright's book explores the ethics and politics of Jewish Israeli activists who challenge the violence perpetrated by their state and in their name.Ethnography of political violence.Political activistsIsraelLeft-wing extremistsIsraelGovernment, Resistance toMoral and ethical aspectsIsraelGovernment, Resistance toIsraelPsychological aspectsArab-Israeli conflictMoral and ethical aspectsPolitical violenceIsraelPsychological aspectsPolitical violenceMoral and ethical aspectsIsraelArab-Israeli conflictPsychological aspectsIsraelEthnic relationsPsychological aspectsAnthropology.Folklore.Jewish Studies.Linguistics.Political Science.Public Policy.Political activistsLeft-wing extremistsGovernment, Resistance toMoral and ethical aspectsGovernment, Resistance toPsychological aspects.Arab-Israeli conflictMoral and ethical aspects.Political violencePsychological aspects.Political violenceMoral and ethical aspectsArab-Israeli conflictPsychological aspects.320.53095694Wright Fiona1498093DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910793023603321The Israeli Radical Left3776756UNINA