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Week 3 Optional Reading[edit]

Questioning "Ethnic Democracy": A Response to Sammy Smooha

- "Ethnic Democracy" Model: a system which combines the extension of civil and political rights to individuals and some collective rights to minorities, with institutionalization of majority control over the state.

Critiques

Israel as cannot be used as an "archetype" case of majority-minority relations due to the continuing "Judaization" of the country.
- "Tyranny of the majority" that structurally prevents the Arabs from mobilizing effectively within this system and excludes them from key positions and resources. Therefore not an "archetype" of a democratic regime.

Flaws in the "ethnic democracy" concept are:

civil inequality and lack of minority consent
ethnic exclusion
problems in the definition of state boundaries

"Ethnic Democracy" and Civil Inequality

The Knesset: defines Israel as the state of the Jewish people
- Israel is a "constitutionally exclusive ethnic state": accepting the state as a jewish state is an illusionary identity at best and a distorted identity at worst
Israel suppresses the mobility of the minority by the systematic exclusion of Arabs from key arenas of Israeli society.
Israel discriminates against Palestinian-Arab citizens on a daily basis and eliminates every possibility of upward mobility of the Arabs under Israeli rule.
Smooh's "ethnic democracy" can be seen as an oxymoron and a better term would be "ethnocracy" defined as a state that is appropriated by one ethnic group and its diasporas and relagates other groups to a secondary type of citizenship.
Ghanem concludes that Israel cannot be considered a democracy because of the ethnic discrimination despite having some characteristics of a democracy.

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Market Overview

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