This article explores the opposition expressed by fans of the Beitar Jerusalem football club to the presence of Arab players on their team. I suggest that instead of suspecting that fans’ behavior originates in false consciousness, we suspend suspicion and reconstruct the meanings they bring to their actions. Narrative analysis of fan interviews reveals the communitarian logic underlying their points of view. By appropriating sacred spheres in Judaism that demarcate the boundaries of the Jewish community, and identifying them with Beitar as opposed to signifying Arab players as defiling Beitar, fans delineate boundaries between Jews and Arabs. Through the sanctification of Beitar, the fans define Jewish collective boundaries and thereby preserve their worldview and identity while maintaining a hierarchy that grants Jews advantages in Israel.
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Communitarianism and Beitar Jerusalem
Guy Abutbul-Selinger
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Nissim Mizrachi and Menachem Mautner
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Hebrew Literature in the ‘World Republic of Letters’
Translation and Reception, 1918–2018
Yael Halevi-Wise and Madeleine Gottesman
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Beyond the Liberal Grammar of Contemporary Sociology
Nissim Mizrachi
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A Woman of Valor Goes to Court
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Ella Glass and Yifat Bitton
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The Northward Course of Empire, The Adventure of Wrangel Island, 1922–1925, and “Universal Revolution”
Paul Dukes
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Pınar Melis Yelsalı Parmaksız
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Play of Mirrors
An Encounter of Personal Biographies with Europe’s Journey
Marcos Farias Ferreira
strictly communitarian politics of identity and difference. According to Havel, it is possible to conceive of an all-embracing community, based on ‘thousands of tiny, inconspicuous, everyday decisions whose common denominator is precisely the spirit and
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 17–34
Economic and social upgrading through professional and supporting services
Lessons from the shrimp value chain in El Salvador
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Regional and sub-regional effects on development policies
The Benelux and the Nordic countries compared
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