Baruch Kimmerling
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Baruch Kimmerling (1939) is a Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is well-known as a sociologist and social-historian. He has a reputation as a vocal critic of Israeli policies and practice related to the Arab-Jewish conflict and the Israeli regime.
Among his major publications:
- Zionism and Territory: The Socioterritorial Dimensions of Zionist Politics. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of International Studies, 1983. [289 pages]
- Zionism and Economy. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1983. [169 pages]
- The Interrupted System: Israeli Civilians in War and Routine Times. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Books, 1985. [229 pages]
- Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal, Palestinians: The Making of a People. New York: Free Press, 1993, [396 pages]. Paperback enlarged edition: Harvard University Press. Italian version: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1994. Enlarged Edition, 2002 [page 512]. Enlarged and revised Hebrew version: Keter, 1998, 300 pages. Arabic: Ramallah, 2001.
- The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Culture and Military in Israel. Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, 268 pages.
- The End of Ashkenazic Hegemony. Jerusalem: Keter, 2001 (Hebrew, 124 pages).
- Politicide: Sharon’s War Against the Palestinians. London: Verso, 2003.
- Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal, The Palestinian People: A History. Cambridge. MA: Harvard University Press, 2003 (604 pages).
- Immigrants, Settlers, Natives: Israel Between Plurality of Cultures and Cultural Wars. Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2004 (Hebrew, 630 pages).
- (As editor) The Israeli State and Society: Boundaries and Frontiers. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. [330 pages]
An example of his writings is the following (Published in Kol HaIr, March 22, 2002, see http://www.seruv.org.il/MoreArticles/English/BaruchKimmerlingEng_1.htm ):
- Since 1967 Israel has ruled directly - and since 1994 indirectly - over millions of Arab residents lacking all civil and most basic human rights. On the one hand, Israel did not annex the Occupied Territories and their population (except for East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan Heights), in order to keep from them civil rights - for example, the right to vote and be elected. On the other hand, Israel has taken freely use of all material and human resources (land, water, etc.) of the Territories as if they belonged to the Jewish state. As time passes and this situation has been institutionalized, Israel has ceased being a democratic state and become a Herrenvolk democracy. This is a regime in which part of its subjects (the citizens) enjoys full rights and another part (the non-citizens) enjoy none. The laws of Israel have become the laws of Master-people and the morality, the morality of lords of the land. The name of the game has become that in every matter and subject which it is comfortable for Israel, residents of the Territories are part of the State, in every matter and subject not comfortable for Israel, they are outside the state. This is a state with a double legal system, a double rule, and a double morality.
External link
- Professor Kimmerling's homepage (http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~mskimmer/)