This SIIS faculty syllabus provides a comprehensive list of materials on Arab and Palestinian identity in Israel, collective identity, law and Israeli democracy, and more.
Essential Reading
Rekhess, Elie. The Arab Minority in Israel: An Analysis of the “Future Vision” Documents. Dorothy and Julius Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations, American Jewish Committee, April 2008, 39 pages.
Rouhana, Nadim. “Accentuated Identities in Protracted Conflict: The Collective Identity of Palestinian Citizens in Israel.” Asian and African Studies, vol. 27 (1993), pp. 97-127.
Ghanem, As’ad, Nadim Rouhana and Oren Yiftachel. “Questioning ‘Ethnic Democracy’: A Response to Sammy Smooha.” Israel Studies, vol. 3, no. 2 (1998), pp. 253-267.
Background Reading
David Grossman
Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel
(New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1993)
ISBN/ISSN: 0312420978
Jamal, Amal “Abstention as Participation: The Labyrinth of Arab Politics in Israel”, in Arian, Asher and Michal Shamir (eds.), The Elections in Israel – 2001
Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute, 2002
David Kretzmer, The Legal Status of the Arabs in Israel, (Tel Aviv: International Center for Peace in the Middle East, 1987)
Jacob Landau
The Arabs in Israel, 1967-1991: Political Aspects
(London: Oxford University Press, 1994)
ISBN/ISSN: 0198277121
Adel Mana
“Identity in Crisis: The Arabs in Israel and the Israel-PLO Agreement,” in Elie Rekhess (editor) Arab Politics in Israel at a Crossroads
(Tel-Aviv University: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and Africa Studies, 1996) pp. 79-86
ISBN/ISSN: 9652240214
Neuberger, Binyamin. “The Arab Minority In Israeli Politics, 1948-1992: From Marginality to Influence,” Asian and African Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2 (March-July 1993), pp. 149-170.
Peres, Yochanan. “Modernization and Nationalism in the Identity of the Israeli Arabs,” Middle East Journal, vol. 24, no. 4 (Autumn 1970), pp. 479-492.
Rekhess, Elie
“Initial Israeli Policy Guidelines toward the Arab Minority, 1948-1949,” in Laurence Silberstein (editor), New Perspectives in Israeli History
(New York: NYU Press). ISBN/ISSN: 0814779298
pp. 103-123
Rekhess, Elie
“Israel’s Arab Minority and the Elections for the Seventeenth Knesset: The Beginning of a New Era?”,
in The Elections in Israel , ed. Asher Arian and Michal Shamir (2006), pp. 159-188
ISBN/ISSN: 0765803887
Rekhess, Elie. “Israeli Arabs and the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza: Political Affinity and National Solidarity,” Asian and African Studies, vol. 23: 2-3 (November 1989), pp. 119-154.
Rekhess, Elie. “Resurgent Islam in Israel”, Asian and African Studies, Vol. 27, (1993), pp. 189-206.
Rekhess, Elie. “The Arabs in Israel: Statistical and Demographic Date, 2009”