Today's antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews. This book looks at the kind of antisemitism which is tolerated or which goes unacknowledged in apparently democratic spaces: trade unions, churches, left-wing and liberal politics, social gatherings of the chattering classes and the seminars and journals of radical intellectuals. It analyses how criticism of Israel can mushroom into antisemitism and it looks at struggles over how antisemitism is defined. It focuses on ways in which those who raise the issue of antisemitism are often accused of doing so in bad faith in an attempt to silence or smear. Hostility to Israel has become a signifier of identity, connected to opposition to imperialism, neo-liberalism and global capitalism; the 'community of the good' takes on toxic ways of imagining most living Jewish people.

Israeli women do not enjoy the equality, status, and power often attributed to them by the media and popular culture. Despite significant achievements and progress, as a whole they continue to earn less than their male counterparts, are less visible and influential in the political arena, do not share equal responsibilities or privileges in the military, have unequal rights and freedoms in family life and law, and are less influential in shaping the nation's self image and cultural orientation. Bringing together classic essays by leading scholars of Israeli culture, this reader exposes the hidden causes of ongoing discrimination and links the restrictions that Israeli women experience to deeply entrenched structures, including colonial legacies, religious traditions, capitalism, nationalism, and ongoing political conflict. In contrast, the essays also explore how women act creatively to affect social change and shape public discourse in less ostensible ways. Providing balanced perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities, this comprehensive reader reflects both an emerging consensus and exciting diversity in the field. It is the definitive text for courses in Israeli women's studies.

Contents: Introduction / Adi Ophir, Michael Givoni, and Sari Hanafi --The Illegality of the occupation regime : the fabric of law in the occupied Palestinian territory / Orna Ben-Naftali, Aeyal M. Gross, and Keren Michaeli --The occupation's paper trail I / Michal Givoni --The order of violence / Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir --The occupation's paper trail II --The (in)human spatial condition : a visual essay / Ariella Azoulay --Photo dossier I : the architecture of destruction --Where, where to, and when in the occupied territories : an introduction to geography of disaster / Ariel Handel --The occupation's paper trail III --Photo dossier II : types of blockage --From colonization to separation : exploring the structure of Israel's occupation / Neve Gordon --The occupation's paper trail IV --Regimes of separation : Israel/Palestine and the shadow of apartheid / Hilla Dayan --The occupations paper trail V --Photo dossier III : the architecture of separation --The colonial foundations of the state of exception : juxtaposing the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories with colonial bureaucratic history / Yehouda Shenhav and Yael Berda --The occupation's paper trail VI --From domination to destruction : the Palestinian economy under the Israeli occupation / Leila Farsakh --The occupation's paper trail VII --Cultivating dependence : Palestinian agriculture under the Israeli occupation / Caroline Abu-Sada --Photo dossier IV : the architecture of fear/the language of subjugation --The destruction of risk society and the ascendancy of Hamas / Neve Gordon and Dani Filc --The occupation's paper trail VIII --Palestinian refugee camps in the Palestinian territory : territory of exception and locus of resistance / Sari Hanafi --Matrix in Bilʹin : colonial capitalism in the occupied territories / Gadi Algazi --Photo dossier V : textures of destruction --Thanato-tactics / Eyal Weizman --The occupation's paper