With her look at the case of political exile Azmi Bishara, Sonja Karkar lays bare the cunundrum that Israel has been unable to reconcile since it began: that it can’t reconcile what it says it now is (democratic) with and be what it openly aspires to become (exclusively Jewish). Using Shin Bet policies and Knesset law as examples, she lays out that even calling for complete equality between Jews and Palestinians is currently illegal in Israel. — Link

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