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Research seminar with Bashir Bashir, associate professor of political theory at the Open University of Israel and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. This talk argues that egalitarian bi-nationalism is the most promising and defensible answer to ending the Israeli occupation and colonization and achieving peace in Israel/ Palestine. It argues that egalitarian bi-nationalism is better equipped to address the underlying issues of the conflict in Israel/Palestine than conventional and new frames in the existing literature. Egalitarian bi-nationalism, the talk argues, better satisfies the urge for self-determination of Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews than the benign neglect majoritarianism of the liberal state or ethnic secession and the partition of the two-state solution. The proposed research argues that egalitarian bi-nationalism’s insistence on envisioning affective relations of co-belonging based on an ethics of equality, parity, mutual legitimacy, and cohabitation offers rich resources for historical reconciliation and decolonization in Israel/Palestine. #israel #palestine #politicalscience #politicalphilosophy If you wish to receive invitations to our seminars via email, subscribe here. https://www.iffs.se/en/about-us/newsletter/ Playlists by theme: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxWAw0WIZSnvrTZFgKBGwKmoJV5Y4ZoP4&si=fF8pp_he6D0GOJvb https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxWAw0WIZSntraETLpASY_TCA9vqTZN8Q&si=AFNc8gtN4pP7Oa1G https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxWAw0WIZSns6GsdeIWs4YzEtj2relda8&si=jYCNNVJlyqmbPbUc https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxWAw0WIZSnsnb3BDRRuds0ZPGOWip4c6&si=saXGEBfLtBTE2x0U https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxWAw0WIZSnvP6HCP2ys80E7c4rxqXatv&si=U6JyJHvs9-IWA3nS