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Is there an Israeli nation? How is it related to the historical "Jewish People"? How is it related to the Zionist movement? Under what conditions could non-Jews become equal members of this nation? These and other questions stand at the center of the Moshe Berent's "A Nation Like All Nations: Towards the Establishment of an Israeli Republic." The mission of the Zionist movement was to work toward the normalization of Jewish existence: to become "a nation like all nations." Israel, contrary to that aspiration, is not a normal nation-state, since according to the formal national ethos it...

This book deals comprehensively with different aspects of collective victimhood in contemporary Israel, but also with the wider implications of this important concept for many other societies, including the Palestinian one. The eight highly-diverse, scholarly chapters included in this volume offer analysis of the politics of victimhood (viewing it as increasingly dominant within contemporary Israel), assess victimhood as a focal point of the Jewish historical legacy, trace the evolution and changes of Zionist thought as it relates to a sense of national victimhood, study the possibility of...