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Current Jewish Critiques of the Jewish State

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ID3296501
AuthorsElad Lapidot (0000-0002-8174-1139, Université de Lille, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume15
Issue2
Pages250
Publication date2024-02-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel15020250
OpenAlexW4391924967
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

This article reviews recent books by Jewish thinkers that critique the idea of a Jewish state from the perspective of Jewish exile. It outlines two main approaches. The first, secular approach, rejects the Jewish state in favor of a secular state, seeing Judaism itself as the problem, whether arising from biblical violence or collective identity. The second, post-secular approach, rejects the Jewish state as secular, and finds resources in Jewish tradition for an alternative political vision centered on exile, understood as resistance to sovereignty and violence. This article argues that Jewish opposition to the Jewish state aims to limit sovereignty, integrate Jews into the Middle East space, and recover an exilic Jewish tradition of social ethics and pluralism. The idea of exile thus provides resources for envisioning decolonization and coexistence in Israel-Palestine

Anti-Zionism · Archaeology · Epistemology · Haskalah · Jewish American literature · Jewish identity · Jewish state · Jewish studies · Judaism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Zionism · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy · Religious studies

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