Israel alongside Jewishness?!
Wilfred Alex
Author of the book "... In the Last Days of America's Hegemony" see amazon.com/author/wilfredruhega
The State of Israel defines itself as the homeland of the Jewish people, making it ethno-national in its own self-image and raising perennial concerns over who is a Jew, how this can be determined, by what credible means, and what exactly this says about the ‘legal nature’ of citizenship in Israel. The recent turn to genetics is an attempt to develop an objective, scientific means of determining the boundaries of the Jewish population. In light of the ambiguities around the materiality/immateriality of the basis of Jewish ethnicity, its connection to the State’s founding narrative of exilic return, and its impact on rights to citizenship, it is not yet clear how and why biological definitions of Jewishness are becoming an important part of the way Israelis understand their Jewish ethnicity as something rooted in the body, transmitted by genes, and shared by the national group.
Scholar of Science, Technology, and Society, Sheila Jasanoff, recently wrote that ‘periods of significant change in the life sciences and technologies should be seen as constitutional, or more precisely, bio-constitutional in their consequences’. Given that Israel has no formalized constitution, the recent advent of genetic tests for Jewishness necessitates a rethinking of Israeli law regarding the State’s definition of Jewishness, and rights to citizenship.
In this New Development, we discuss the historical and legal context of secular and religious definitions of Jewishness and rights to immigration in the State of Israel. We then give a brief overview of different ways in which genes have been regarded as Jewish, and we discuss the relationship between this new application of genetics and the society with which it is co-produced.16 In conclusion, we raise several questions about future potential impacts of Jewish genetics on Israeli law and society.
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7 个月What constitutes a modern and peacful place ? Gaza? Iran? Lebenon? Syria? Turkey? Jordan? The non-ethocentric Nations of diversity and kindness. Should Isreal be more like the non-ethos, treat their people like non-ethos (worthy of sacrifice only) treat their women like non-ethos property. Maybe they should be championing the distruction of the non-ethos with nightly death to the non-ethos parties in the streets. And stop being so ethocentric.
Maybe they would be there if they weren't continuously attacked, they could concentrate on other national issues more in line with nations at peace.
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7 个月PALESTINE ???? n' THE TIME OF THE SON of MARY ... " JESUS "... "NO ISRAEL ???? "...