David Maisel’s scientific contributions

... A significant number of academics writing about Israel, who identify with critical social theory (Marxism, neo-Marxism, postmodernism, postcolonialism), challenge the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Such scholarship problematizes Israel education as a valuable endeavor altogether (Butler 2014;Khalidi 2020;Pappe 1997;Said 1978Said , 1994Silberstein 1999;Sternhell 1998). The criticism of Israel from this perspective (sometimes associated with post-Zionism) often argues that Israel represents Western imperial interests to impose an "alien hegemonic culture" (p. ...

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“You Never Told Me”: The Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) of Israel Education

... During this period labor movement organizations were established, including the largest workers' political party Mapai (Party of the Eretz Israeli Workers) and a large and influential labor union-the Histadrut (General Federation of Jewish Labor). Both Mapai and the Histadrut deemed class formation and nation-building closely linked, and advanced a socialist version of nationalist ideology (Sternhell 1998). In practice, the labor movement was committed to developing the economic, demographic, and political infrastructure for a future Jewish state (Shalev 1992); it engaged in the establishment of economic enterprises, communal agricultural settlements, social insurance institutions, and one of Israel's three largest banks (Bank Hapoalim-The Workers' Bank). ...

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Privatization of Education in Israel

... 128 Pouget was also a frequent presence in the pages of pioneering Italian journals of syndicalism, Il devenire sociale and Pagine libere, accompanied by the writings of other French activists and intellectuals. 129 Argentinian anarchists, for their part, reproduced key congresses of the French 121 CGT in their weekly, La Protesta Humana, emphasizing "the importance of the new tactics" that the French imparted. 130 They underlined the French origins of key direct action tactics, such as the general strike. ...

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Direct Action: The Invention of a Transnational Concept

... Indeed, myths can embody the idea of maintaining the statu quo (Barthes 1991), or even embody a conservative and reactionary notion of politics (Botticci 2007). In fact, Sorel's thought was a pillar of the articulation of some nationalist and fascist discourses in the early 20th century (Sternhell 1995). Hence, in analysing how myth theory can best explain the multifaceted character of populism, we must look deeper into myth theory to understand how political myths can operate. ...

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Populism and contingency Assessing the ideological flexibility of populism through Sorel's Theory of Myth

... Unlike in the case of other Abrahamic religions, any discussion of "political science and the Jews" ( Zuckerman 1999 ) is inevitably bound to begin with defining Judaism as an analytical category. Rather than viewing Judaism/Jews dichotomously as either a religion or an ethnicity ( Webber 1997 ;Sand 2020 ), in this contribution, I treat Judaism as an ethnoreligious identity, a commonly used concept in the scholarship on religion and violence (i.e., Fox 1999 ). ...

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How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?

... During this period labor movement organizations were established, including the largest workers' political party Mapai (Party of the Eretz Israeli Workers) and a large and influential labor union-the Histadrut (General Federation of Jewish Labor). Both Mapai and the Histadrut deemed class formation and nation-building closely linked, and advanced a socialist version of nationalist ideology (Sternhell 1998). In practice, the labor movement was committed to developing the economic, demographic, and political infrastructure for a future Jewish state (Shalev 1992); it engaged in the establishment of economic enterprises, communal agricultural settlements, social insurance institutions, and one of Israel's three largest banks (Bank Hapoalim-The Workers' Bank). ...

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Privatization in Israeli Integration Policy: When Zionism Meets Neoliberalism