The Issue of Stone-Throwing
The Case of Israeli Anti-Apartheid Activists Not Crossing the Lines
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Abstract
In this article, I investigate the ways in which Jewish Israeli anti-occupation activists express reluctance to throwing stones during the regular Friday protests in various Palestinian villages. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, I highlight their feelings of confusion and ambiguity regarding the issue of stone-throwing, which reflect the contradictory demands placed upon them as both Israelis and activists. I argue that the ambiguity they express cannot be analyzed in an ideological, social, or political vacuum; rather, it should be understood in relation to their hopes, expectations, and disappointments, which are situated within particular political imaginaries and projects, ideological prisms, and cultural topoi. This article aims to analyze the ways in which domination and power structures are both challenged and reinforced within the context of political protest.
Contributor Notes
Andits Petra is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Sociology at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where she leads a project on the emergence of sexual-populism in Hungary in the context of migration. Petra is a Cultural Anthropologist by training and holds a PhD in political and social inquiry from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Email: anditspetra@gmail.com