Israel, where it has been played every weekend all over the country since before the establishment of the state. Football is not just a game that children and adults love to play and watch; it also involves individual, group, and collective identities, and local and national identification. Football reflects, and often accentuates, political and social conflicts that highlight ethno-national, class, political, and gender hierarchies and tensions in society. The game is largely dependent on the surrounding context(s) that determines its “relative autonomy,” which shapes its distinguished fandom culture(s) and practices (Rapoport 2016).
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Guest Editors' Introduction
Football and Society in Israel—a Story of Interdependence
Tamar Rapoport and Amir Ben Porat
Guest Editors’ Introduction
Resisting Liberalism in Israel—the Case of Marginalized Mizrahim
Nissim Mizrachi and Menachem Mautner
electorate. Meretz, the Jewish leftist-liberal party, obtained votes barely sufficient to allow it to remain in the Knesset. The votes won by the Labor Party failed to lift it out of its middling size or to spread it beyond the middle class. These results
Sociology in the Garden
Beyond the Liberal Grammar of Contemporary Sociology
Nissim Mizrachi
phenomenon—the ‘refusal’ of working-class Mizrahi Jews, one of Israel’s disadvantaged groups, to embrace the liberal message of social justice, equality, and human rights. Moreover, this group of Mizrahim, frequently regarded by critical sociologists as
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Eilon Schwartz
Israeli public, with working-class Mizrahim prominent among them. The group’s perspective, featured in each of the articles in this issue and showcased at a conference held at Tel Aviv University in the fall of 2015, 1 focused on the liberal agenda itself
Editors’ Note
Threats to Academic Freedom
our very oldest members might remember, namely, the ‘middle-class professionals’ strike’ of 1956, when whole sectors of the professional workforce, including doctors, engineers, and academics, walked out, angered that the ‘wage gaps’ between their
Oded Haklai and Adia Mendelsohn-Maoz
. Ultimately, if we are to understand BDS, not as advocates but as scholars, we need to use the analytical tools at our disposal and treat BDS as we would any other case that falls into the same class of phenomena. What is the relevant category of analysis
Avi Bareli and Tal Elmaliach
civil society out of which it grew, for example, the education level of the public, mechanisms developed for public participation, or socio-economic development that can facilitate the creation of an elite or political class that would be the bearer and
Yoram Peri and Paul L. Scham
expressed the mood of the wider political class in Germany. Indeed, the consequences were swift, and the local Thuringian CDU party quickly withdrew from the agreement. Even more tellingly, the current minister of defense, who had already been designated as
Paul L. Scham and Yoram Peri
standards she set for her students and her commitment to making sure each of us truly achieved our highest potential in her class. She expected a lot, but she gave no less.” A dedicated teacher and scholar, Brenner remained active until her final days. As
The Palestinians, Israel, and BDS
Strategies and Struggles in Wars of Position
Ian S. Lustick and Nathaniel Shils
national struggle. The central axis of division in this struggle pits grassroots civil society activists against the PA (Palestinian Authority), overlapping PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) leadership, and an allied capitalist class, although as
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