Challenging the hegemonic order: the Israeli case examined – CHOICE

The general objective of CHOICE is to analyze the hegemonic/counter-hegemonic dialectics operating in Israel today. It offers to do so by studying the wide range of counter-hegemonic discourses and activities circulated and performed by Israeli Jews as well as the institutional and non-institutional attempts to suppress them. By studying not only visible forms of protest, such as participation to social movements, refusal to serve in the army, petitions, etc. but also more inconspicuous practices, such as leaving Israel, schooling ones’ children in a bi-national school, living in a Palestinian locality, and narratives circulated in and out of the activist field that deviate from the mainstream narratives, the project tackles the main challenge to map and study the Israeli “dissenting constellation”.