"Yes, your assumption is correct. In my Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures entry on Zionism I discuss the history of Zionist eugenics. The preferred baby was and still is Ashkenazi. See here:…"
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Smadar Lavie commented on Smadar Lavie's blog post Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain (AE vol 39 no. 4)
Abraham Heinemann commented on Smadar Lavie's blog post Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain (AE vol 39 no. 4)"Would the theme of segregation amongst Israelis, particularly the the European and the Mizrahi, be playing a part in the state of Israel's sterilisation black Mizrahi (e.g. the ethiopian case)?"
John McCreery commented on Smadar Lavie's blog post Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain (AE vol 39 no. 4)"Smadar, as I said earlier, I have not been following the resistance literature closely. I am in the curious position for an anthropologist of studying people who are frequently smarter, more powerful and much better paid than I am: top advertising…"
Smadar Lavie commented on Smadar Lavie's blog post Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain (AE vol 39 no. 4)"Thanks so much for your thoughtful comments, John. I differ with you about resistance literature. I think it's a sophisticated field of theory and ethnography. Why is it given primacy in social and cultural anthropology? That's another…"
John McCreery commented on Smadar Lavie's blog post Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain (AE vol 39 no. 4)"Smadar, I have to admit that I have not been following these developments in anthropology. One personal problem with this sort of thing is how to validate perfectly justified anger and reply analytically at the same time. Thus, for example, to me…"
Smadar Lavie commented on Smadar Lavie's blog post Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain (AE vol 39 no. 4)"Thanks, John. Anthropologists today, at least those working with the US-European paradigm, insist that every subject must have agency and enact identity politics. Even if agency is docility, as in Mahmood's ethnography. I think this insistence…"
John McCreery commented on Smadar Lavie's blog post Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain (AE vol 39 no. 4)"A powerful piece that is, for this comfortably well-off white male grandfather searingly painful to read. What, besides acknowledging the pain, is it possible to say? I do not know."
Smadar Lavie's blog post was featuredWriting Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain (AE vol 39 no. 4)
My essay, “Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain,” appears in the latest issue of American Ethnologist (Volume 39, Issue 4). Here is its abstract: Equating bureaucratic entanglements with pain—or what, arguably, can be seen as torture—might seem strange. But for single Mizrahi welfare mothers in Israel, somatization of bureaucratic logic as physical pain precludes the agency of identity politics. This essay elaborates on Don Handelman’s scholarship…See More
Smadar Lavie posted a blog postWriting Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain (AE vol 39 no. 4)
My essay, “Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain,” appears in the latest issue of American Ethnologist (Volume 39, Issue 4). Here is its abstract: Equating bureaucratic entanglements with pain—or what, arguably, can be seen as torture—might seem strange. But for single Mizrahi welfare mothers in Israel, somatization of bureaucratic logic as physical pain precludes the agency of identity politics. This essay elaborates on Don Handelman’s scholarship…See More
Smadar Lavie commented on Smadar Lavie's blog post Gaza and the Mizrahi Predicament"Dear Keith,
My heartfelt thanks for the time and effort you invested in seeing the long video. SL"
"Smadar, I think you sell yourself short with this lowkey introduction to your wonderful talk. I will try to encourage our readers to check it out and stay with it, for it is long.
When she gave this lecture in 2009, Smadar was Hubert H Humphrey…"
Smadar Lavie's blog post was featuredGaza and the Mizrahi Predicament
This is a recording of a long dialogue, followed by an audience Q & A, held at the Cork chapter of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign on January 17, 2009. The topic covers the position of Mizrahim within the Israel-Palestine conflict. It provides a good introduction to the dilemmas and predicaments faced by Mizrahim as Jewish Israeli citizens who have origins in the Muslim World. The talk also analyzes the reasons why the Israeli political center moves farther and farther toward the…See More
Smadar Lavie posted a blog postGaza and the Mizrahi Predicament
This is a recording of a long dialogue, followed by an audience Q & A, held at the Cork chapter of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign on January 17, 2009. The topic covers the position of Mizrahim within the Israel-Palestine conflict. It provides a good introduction to the dilemmas and predicaments faced by Mizrahim as Jewish Israeli citizens who have origins in the Muslim World. The talk also analyzes the reasons why the Israeli political center moves farther and farther toward the…See More
Smadar Lavie commented on Smadar Lavie's blog post Iran-Israel: Social Protest and Military Action"Dear Abraham,
Apologies for taking so long to respond. My heartfelt gratitude for your sharp read of my Knafo Chronicles, and your eloquent blog on it in Kula-Ring. This last week has been difficult - the festive whirlwind of the AAA while being…"
Abraham Heinemann commented on Smadar Lavie's blog post Iran-Israel: Social Protest and Military Action"Thank you for this! I was so moved by the Knafo Chronicles I wrote this http://kularing.info/2012/11/18/glimpse-peace/"
Smadar Lavie's blog post was featuredISRAEL IDF OPERATION: “PILLAR OF CLOUDS”
About 6 weeks ago Netanyahu called for the dismissal of the Knesset and for early elections, closely following the U.S. elections. The reason for dismissal of the government was a gridlock in the Knesset over Netanyahu’s draconian national budget for 2013. The call for the elections defused the threat for more social protests, given the steep price increases for food, rent, gas etc. since spring 2012. A mini operation, or a dress rehearsal for this one, was carried out in June 2012. Another…See More
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Heart at East: The Coalition for Equal Distribution of Cultural Funds in Israel
On May 21, 2013, in Tel Aviv, I'm going to be awarded the Heart at East lifetime achievement plaque for my feminist-of-color activism, community leadership and academic scholarship. Heart at East is a coalition of 20 or so NGOs that aims to remedy the near complete lack of cultural rights and representation for Israel's majority citizenry, the Mizrahim.
The Heart at East lifetime achievement plaque was created as an…
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment
Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain (AE vol 39 no. 4)
My essay, “Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain,” appears in the latest issue of American Ethnologist (Volume 39, Issue 4). Here is its abstract:
Equating bureaucratic entanglements with pain—or what, arguably, can be seen as torture—might seem strange. But for single Mizrahi welfare mothers in Israel, somatization of bureaucratic logic as physical pain precludes…
Posted on January 7, 2013 at 12:00am — 7 Comments
Gaza and the Mizrahi Predicament
This is a recording of a long dialogue, followed by an audience Q & A, held at the Cork chapter of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign on January 17, 2009. The topic covers the position of Mizrahim within the Israel-Palestine conflict. It provides a good introduction to the dilemmas and predicaments faced by Mizrahim as Jewish Israeli citizens who have origins in the Muslim World. The talk also analyzes the reasons why the Israeli political center moves farther and farther toward…
ContinuePosted on December 9, 2012 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments
ISRAEL IDF OPERATION: “PILLAR OF CLOUDS”
About 6 weeks ago Netanyahu called for the dismissal of the Knesset and for early elections, closely following the U.S. elections. The reason for dismissal of the government was a gridlock in the Knesset over Netanyahu’s draconian national budget for 2013. The call for the elections defused the threat for more social protests, given the steep price increases for food, rent, gas etc. since spring 2012. A mini operation, or a dress rehearsal for this one, was carried out in June 2012. Another…
ContinuePosted on November 15, 2012 at 5:56pm
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Justin Shaffner said… Welcome to the OAC, Smadar! Good to see you here!
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