Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2015
Titel der Quelle:
תיאוריה וביקורת; במה ישראלית
Angaben zur Quelle:
45 (2015) 31-56
Keywords:
Rabin, Yitzhak, Assassination
;
Amir, Yigal
;
Right-wing extremists Psychology
;
Religious Zionists Attitudes
;
Religious Zionism Social aspects
;
Zionism and Judaism
Abstract:
This article tries to explain the identity of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin, Yigal Amir, by analyzing the sociological categories that shaped Amir – and, more broadly, by exploring the complex interaction that exists in Israel between religion and ideology, ethnicity and class, centrality and peripherality.For years the National Religious camp, and the settler leadership within it, sought to attract Mizrahi Jews, but cultural and social difficulties kept the Mizrahim from full integration into this community. The article focuses in particular on the newcomers’ difficulty of internalizing the unique codes of the ideological-theological views of Rabbi Kook’s followers. The settlers spoke about redemption and about a revolutionary Jewish state, but generally refrained from translating their worldview to radical acts of violence. Those who joined the community, like Amir, but could not quite understand this gap between rhetoric and action, tended to interpret it as weakness. Amir’s multifaceted biography thus led him to the margins of the settler community, which involved a selective adoption of their values without adopting the restraints against the use of political violence. This, Feige argues, also explains why a large percentage of political murderers in Israel have come from the ethnic margins of Gush Emunim and of the ideological settler community.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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