The sword and the neck: Israel, Palestine and the making of a hegemonic state
This article uses two recent BPP webinar/screenings – Omer Bartov’s discussion of Israel: What Went Wrong? and Gillian Mosley’s film Planet Israel – to examine the nature of the State of Israel and the question of whether it could ever have become a “normal” liberal democracy. It engages with Bartov’s distinction between Zionism as a rescue project and Zionism…