Adalah's Review Volume 4 - In the Name of Security (Spring 2004)

From the introduction, by Samera Esmeir: It is difficult to devote an issue of a critical journal published by a human rights organization to the theme of “security.” For in such a case, the work of critique is expected to juxtapose security considerations with human rights, and to reveal the violations of the latter carried out “in the name of security.” Demography, Arab-owned lands, Arab Palestinians moving and crossing borders, political dissent, certain forms of knowledge, speech, memory and the relationship to the past – all of these, as the articles in this issue elaborate, have been realized as security concerns in Israel. The term security contains the reasons, the means and the ends, and as such, it justifies its own deployment. It is a magical term able to absorb any and all content. Instead of considering security in opposition to other rights and interests, and therefore, overlooking the act of making secure and the various definitions of what is secure, articles in this issue of Adalah’s Review probe the politics of securing as efforts to impose a specific reality, to fix it, and to attempt to bring it to a close.

From the introduction by Samera Esmeir:

It is difficult to devote an issue of a critical journal published by a human rights organization to the theme of “security.” For in such a case, the work of critique is expected to juxtapose security considerations with human rights, and to reveal the violations of the latter carried out “in the name of security.”

Demography, Arab-owned lands, Arab Palestinians moving and crossing borders, political dissent, certain forms of knowledge, speech, memory and the relationship to the past – all of these, as the articles in this issue elaborate, have been realized as security concerns in Israel. The term security contains the reasons, the means and the ends, and as such, it justifies its own deployment. It is a magical term able to absorb any and all content.

Instead of considering security in opposition to other rights and interests, and therefore, overlooking the act of making secure and the various definitions of what is secure, articles in this issue of Adalah’s Review probe the politics of securing as efforts to impose a specific reality, to fix it, and to attempt to bring it to a close. 

 

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Introduction: In the Name of Security - Samera Esmeir

Al-Mutafaqim: The Pessoptimist, State Security and the Exception-Rule in Legal Practice - Farid Ghanem

Political Control and Crime: The Use of Defense (Emergency) Regluations during Military Government - Alina Korn

Men Under the Military Regime - Areen Hawari

The Archive Law, the GSS Law and Public Discourse in Israel - Hillel Cohen

In the Name of Insecurity: Arab Soldiers in the Israeli Military - Rhoda Kanaaneh

Wars of Public Safety and the Policing of History - Allen Feldman

Special Inquiry: Security Practices and Legal Challenges - Rina Rosenberg

Elections Disqualificaitions Cases - Adalah

Ban on Family Unification - Adalah

State of Emergency: Information Sheen No. 1 - Submitted by Adalah to the United Nations Human Rights Committee

Concluding Observations: UN Human Rights Committee on Israel, 2003