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SUMMARY:The Israel Supreme Court Religion and the Relationship of State an
 d Religion in Israel - Professor Anat Scolnicov (Winchester)
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DESCRIPTION:Israel was originally to have a Constitution\, but it never di
 d as the issue proved divisive on religious grounds\, among others. An unw
 ritten constitution developed in its place. This is the legal context of c
 urrent constitutional debates\, including on the constitutional status of 
 religion in Israel. The solution was the adoption of chapters or Basic Law
 s\, that together would form a constitution. What are the Basic Laws - an 
 exercise of a constitutional authority of the Knesset\, if such existed? A
 n exercise of legislative authority?\nThe status of religion in the state 
 is a constitutional matter which directly affects religious freedom\, and 
 the establishment of religious is a pivotal constitutional matter. Religio
 us courts derive their legal powers from the statutes enacted by the Kness
 et and must abide by the laws of the Knesset as interpreted by the Supreme
  Court\, even if it conflicts with their religious interpretation. The rel
 igious courts\, however\, view their authority as emanating from a religio
 us normative system. Attempts to rectify inequalities in religious law thr
 ough state law directed at religious courts\, are destined for a clash of 
 normative hierarchies.\nThe talk will draw on the speaker’s experience a
 s a constitutional law barrister representing litigants in the Supreme Cou
 rt\, as well as on her academic research.\nSpeakers:\nProfessor Anat Scoln
 icov (Winchester)
LOCATION:St Anne's College (Seminar Room 7)\, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
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SUMMARY:Invisible Settles: Resettling Palestinian Collaborators in Israel 
 - Prof. Menachem Hofnung (Hebrew University)
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DESCRIPTION:What are the social and economic costs of using cohorts of loc
 al informers to ensure military control of a hostile territory?  In 1994\,
  an Israeli NGO (B'Tselem) published a study that analysed the incidents o
 f Palestinians murdered by their own people on suspicions of collaboration
  with Israeli intelligence during the first Palestinian uprising (Intifada
  1987-1993). It has been estimated that 900 Palestinians were executed on 
 these grounds. \nTwenty years later an astounding phenomenon was documente
 d. Hundreds of Palestinians are turning to the Israeli High Court of Justi
 ce and asking to be formally recognized as ‘informers’ (collaborators)
 . This trend raises the following question\, how did such a scorned tag be
 come a highly desired title that many Palestinians are willing to petition
  the highest court of the enemy to officially gain the label of informer (
 collaborator)?\nThe findings of this research reveal an interesting juxtap
 osition: a Jewish population being encouraged to settle in the West Bank\,
  while simultaneously a constant flow of informers and their extended fami
 lies are being resettled within Israel (also funded by the state of Israel
 )’ thus\, creating a completely different political and demographic real
 ity than the one that existed just a generation ago.\n\nSpeakers:\nProf. M
 enachem Hofnung (Hebrew University)
LOCATION:St Anne's College (Seminar room 1)\, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
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SUMMARY:Invisible Settles: Resettling Palestinian Collaborators in Israel 
 - Prof. Menachem Hofnung (Hebrew University)
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DESCRIPTION:What are the social and economic costs of using cohorts of loc
 al informers to ensure military control of a hostile territory?  In 1994\,
  an Israeli NGO (B'Tselem) published a study that analysed the incidents o
 f Palestinians murdered by their own people on suspicions of collaboration
  with Israeli intelligence during the first Palestinian uprising (Intifada
  1987-1993). It has been estimated that 900 Palestinians were executed on 
 these grounds. \nTwenty years later an astounding phenomenon was documente
 d. Hundreds of Palestinians are turning to the Israeli High Court of Justi
 ce and asking to be formally recognized as ‘informers’ (collaborators)
 . This trend raises the following question\, how did such a scorned tag be
 come a highly desired title that many Palestinians are willing to petition
  the highest court of the enemy to officially gain the label of informer (
 collaborator)?\nThe findings of this research reveal an interesting juxtap
 osition: a Jewish population being encouraged to settle in the West Bank\,
  while simultaneously a constant flow of informers and their extended fami
 lies are being resettled within Israel (also funded by the state of Israel
 )’ thus\, creating a completely different political and demographic real
 ity than the one that existed just a generation ago.\n\nSpeakers:\nProf. M
 enachem Hofnung (Hebrew University)
LOCATION:St Anne's College (Seminar room 1)\, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
TZID:Europe/London
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SUMMARY:The Divine People? Mapping the political-theological coordinates o
 f post-liberalism - Dr Suzanne Schneider (Brooklyn Institute for Social Re
 search)
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DESCRIPTION:The rise of right-wing ‘populist’ parties has generated co
 nsiderable anxiety over the future of liberal democracy in countries rangi
 ng from India and Turkey to Israel\, Hungary\, Brazil\, and the United Sta
 tes\, among others. This talk will attend to the political-theological dim
 ensions of what has variously been called post-liberalism\, illiberal demo
 cracy\, or populism (a usage the speaker will contest) by considering the 
 ways in which champions of the post-liberal project understand the relatio
 nship between three fundamental political concepts: the law\, the state\, 
 and the people. Looking in particular at the work of the American scholar 
 Patrick Deneen and the Israeli thinker Yoram Hazony\, it will outline the 
 central attributes of the post-liberal vision: a natalist understanding of
  political community\, the denigration of individual freedom\, the displac
 ement of ‘the law’ by ‘the people’ as the central legitimating con
 cept\, and the embrace of counter-majoritarian and authoritarian measures 
 to enforce the desired moral order. The state\, in this schema\, is parado
 xically required to support and sustain the supposedly organic and homogen
 ous nation that precedes it and indeed justifies its existence. In this wa
 y post-liberals differ markedly from libertarian conservatives and represe
 nt a new chapter in relations between virtue and the state. \nSpeakers:\nD
 r Suzanne Schneider (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research)
LOCATION:St Anne's College (Seminar Room 5)\, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
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