%0 Journal Article
%T The Politics of Decolonisation and Bi
%A Bashir Bashir
%A Rachel Busbridge
%J Political Studies
%@ 1467-9248
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0032321718767029
%X Recent years have seen a revitalisation of decolonisation as a framework of analysis in the Israeli¨CPalestinian conflict. This article maps changes in the meanings attached to decolonisation in the Israeli Israeli¨CPalestinian context, paying particular attention to the one-state paradigm. One-state proposals highlight bi-national realities in historic Palestine in order to lay out a decolonising vision grounded in equal civic rights. Many one-state advocates, however, are suspicious of a prescriptive bi-national paradigm that would afford the two national groups equal collective rights, primarily because its recognition of Jewish national self-determination is seen as entrenching, rather than decolonising, colonial relations of power. We argue that a prescriptive bi-nationalism in fact offers rich resources for a decolonising project in Israel/Palestine that seeks to establish a polity based on the principles of justice and equality ¨C come to terms with historical injustice and imagine alternative pasts, presents and futures based on Arab¨CJewish relationships
%K decolonisation
%K Israel/Palestine
%K bi-nationalism
%K settler colonialism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0032321718767029