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Multiculture Me No More! On Multicultural Qualifications and the Palestinian-Arab Minority of Israel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Michael Mousa Karayanni
Michael Mousa Karayanni*
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Abstract

Multiculturalism has become a central theme in many academic disciplines from philosophy to education, social work and psychology, ultimately reaching political science and law. What seems to be unique in current studies on multiculturalism is not merely the observance and display of societies that happen to be diverse in terms of the religious, cultural, national and ethnic affiliation of their members. Rather, it is the central argument that such divergence is legitimate and should be accommodated. Accepting other groups in society and the legitimacy of accommodating them has become a virtue of tolerance.

This paper argues that we must first look into multicultural theory itself to discover what can be called ‘multicultural qualifications’. These are in essence pre-conditions without the presence of which group accommodations, even if granted based on group membership, should not be considered as multicultural in nature. With multicultural theory as a backdrop, this article intends to identify such multicultural qualifications. The Palestinian-Arab minority in Israel is studied in its constellation as both a national minority group and as a religiously diverse group as an object for testing the application of the identified multicultural qualifications.

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Diogenes , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , August 2007 , pp. 39 - 58
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Copyright © UNESCO 2007

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