Forthcoming by Ilana Kaufman
This study focuses on a specific group of young Palestinian activists who were born in the late 1... more This study focuses on a specific group of young Palestinian activists who were born in the late 1980s and 1990s. Most of them were too young to actually take part in the October Events, but their impact was left upon them, such that they partly share the political consciousness of those born a decade earlier. This paper addresses the following question: are we witnessing early signs of a generational phenomenon involving the solidification of a new generational unit, of youth bearing a new generational style of activism and patriotism, meant to intervene in history and change its course? Specifically, we are asking whether we are seeing a new style of collective action with new content matter, distinguished from the established political parties, and aimed to generate political change.
Papers by Ilana Kaufman
International Journal of Peace Studies, 2008
Through a case study of Machsom Watch-a group of Israeli women activists who protest against the ... more Through a case study of Machsom Watch-a group of Israeli women activists who protest against the current national security policy in the West Bank by interposing themselves between their own army and the civilian Palestinian population living under military occupation there-the article assesses the extent to which civilian women who challenge military judgments in the midst of a bitter and prolonged national conflict can influence security policymaking. The paper demonstrates how the effectiveness of such a group is constrained by the national consensus that accords the army expert status on national security, and by the structure of political opportunity.
Journal of Israeli History, 2014
This paper analyzes the way in which Palestine's Jewish and Arab communist parties, the PCP-M... more This paper analyzes the way in which Palestine's Jewish and Arab communist parties, the PCP-Maki and the National Liberation League, acted during the 1948 war. Both groups made separate and different efforts to make the two-state solution a reality as originally conceived in the UN partition plan. Ironically, the decisive Jewish victory in the war resulted in an asymmetry between the Jewish Communists the Palestinian Communists when they were unified toward the end of the 1948 war. Despite Maki's labors for an Israeli victory, its standing in the nascent Israeli political system toward the end of the war remained marginal. The concept of Jewish–Arab cooperation under the aegis of the USSR was seen by the Zionist establishment as dangerous and subversive.
Revue internationale de politique comparée, 2011
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Protests and Generations: Legacies and Emergences in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean, 2017
Temps modernes, 2009
... | Ayuda. Vers une démocratie consensuelle. Autores: Ilana Kaufman; Localización: Temps modern... more ... | Ayuda. Vers une démocratie consensuelle. Autores: Ilana Kaufman; Localización: Temps modernes, ISSN 0040-3075, Nº. 652-653, 2009 (Ejemplar dedicado a: La sexagénaire jeunesse d'Israël I: des israéliens se parlent, nous parlent (Tome II)) , pags. 143-163. ...
Nationalism and Democracy Dichotomies Complementarities Oppositions 2010 Isbn 978 0 415 55915 7 Pags 184 207, 2010
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Forthcoming by Ilana Kaufman
Papers by Ilana Kaufman