Sovereignty in Hebrew and the Decline of Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13042284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meirav Jones (0000-0001-7450-3530, corresponding author), Lihi Ben Shitrit (0000-0001-7868-9889) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 141-159 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Israeli Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2159-0370 • E-ISSN: 2159-0389 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/isr.2024.390108 |
| OpenAlex | W4398149234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
Since assuming office in December 2022, Israel's government has worked to weaken the state's democratic infrastructure. While this appears to break from a long-standing Israeli consensus on democracy, this article demonstrates that retiring democracy has long been the agenda of the faction of the Israeli right most empowered in Israel's current government, namely the settler movement. Following the discourse in Sovereignty: A Political Journal , it finds that by recasting ‘sovereignty’ as involving annexation and disenfranchizing Palestinians, the settler right has consistently portrayed democracy—and particularly the Supreme Court that serves as a check on governmental power and protects minorities—as an obstacle to ‘sovereignty.’ Considering the settler right's political vision, the article claims that defending democracy today will necessarily involve engaging contentious questions of occupation and annexation
Democracy · Economics · Hebrew · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sovereignty · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |