Israel and the Family of Nations: The Jewish Nation-State and Human Rights

Abstract

Introduction 1. establishment of - UN debates in 1947 1.1 Israel's Declaration of Independence 1.2 UNSCOP (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine) report 1.3 Partition debate in UN General Assembly 1.4 dilemmas of right of national self-determination 1.5 historic right and historic connection 1.6 An alien body in Arab Middle East 1.7 validity of principle of partition 2. Two arguments: Zionist colonialism and invention of national identity 2.1 Colonialism and imperialist support 2.2 The hope of two thousand years? Modern identity and question of historical continuity 3. Zionism and international norms 3.1 Everything goes back to Herzl 3.2 question of Arabs' rights in Zionist thought 4. and Israeli 4.1 The state in Israeli discourse 4.2 and rights of Arab minority 4.3 Arabs in Israel as a national minority 4.4 The state, the of Jews, the of people 5. Either or democratic? 5.1 Jewish and democratic state - oxymoron? 5.2 Law of Return and international norms of equality 5.3 and of all its citizens 5.4 The Jewish-Israeli people and right of self-determination 5.5 Israel and Diaspora - a national or an connection? 5.6 The Israeli people - a national identity common to all citizens of state? 5.7 post-national state 6. The of state and democratic nation-state 6.1 principle of and various types of democratic regimes 6.2 Partition and neutrality 6.3 principle of neutrality, Law of Return and problem of Palestinian refugees 6.4 Two examples of partition: India and Ireland 6.5 Imperial nations - Britain and Spain 6.6 Composite identities, national identity and citizenship 7. Ethnic democracy, ethnic nationalism, civic 7.1 Ethnic democracy - Prof. Sami Samocha's model 7.2 Civic nationalism and cultural homogeneity - French model 7.3 Civic nationalism - US and other examples 7.4 Second-rate democracy? Epilogue: No other country Appendix A: Excerpts from constitutions of contemporary democratic countries Appendix B: Nansen's speech before League of Nations on need to support repatriation of Armenians to Armenian Soviet Republic