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A Queer Way Out : The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2018

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Print version: Amit, Hila : A Queer Way Out : The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel. - Albany : State University of New York Press,c2018

978-1-4384-7012-2 ( : electronic bk.)

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LOC-SH: Sexual minorities-Israel ; Gay immigrants-Israel ; Zionism ; Israel-Emigration and immigration-Social aspects

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Research Participants -- Methodology -- Outline -- 1. Israel, Zionism, and Emigration Anxiety -- Zionism, Migration, and State Policy -- Zionism -- Aliyah -- Yerida -- The Case of Cuba: A Comparison -- Emigration Anxiety in Public Discourse -- Emigration Anxiety in Academic Discourse -- Conclusion -- 2. Points of Departure: The Standard Emigration Story and Queer Israeli Emigrants -- The Standard Story?-Israeli Emigrants in Popular Texts -- Unspoken Subjects: Queer Israeli Emigration and Motivations for Departure -- Rotem, 29 years old, in Berlin for Four Years -- Kobi, 42 Years Old, in London for 12 Years -- Shani, 36 Years Old, 6 Years in London, Talia, 40 Years Old, 19 Years in London -- Elad, 33 Years Old, New York (Three Years) and Berlin (One Year) -- Challenging the "Standard Story": Main Themes in the Motivations for Emigration in the Narratives of Queer Israeli Emigrants -- Challenging the Economic Motivations -- Challenging the "Wish to Return" Conception -- Challenging the "Love of the Homeland" Conception -- Conclusion -- 3. The Israeli Collective and Emigration: Left-Wing Queers and Unbelonging -- The Location of Hatred and Unbelonging -- Queer Israelis and the Army -- Pinkwashing, Black Laundry, and Other Occupational Hazards -- Foreplay -- Second Base -- The Morning After -- Conclusion -- 4. The New Hebrew Diaspora: Queer Israeli Emigrants in Cyber Space -- The Establishment of the NHD Facebook Group -- Deconstructing Israel's Grand Narratives: The Discursive Acts of the NHD -- The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- Israeli Homonormative Gay Community -- Citizenship -- 5. Queer Interruptions: The Temporal Regime of Israel and Queer Israeli Emigrants -- Zionism and Temporality -- Temporality and the Nation-State -- Queer Theory and Temporality

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The State of Israel, Zionism, and the National Timeline -- Queerness in Israel and Exiting the National Temporality -- The Zionist Project and the Future -- Creating an Individual Future -- Reproduction, Emigration, and the Future of the Zionist Project -- Conclusion -- 6. The Queer Act of Emigration: Avoidance and Unheroic Political Activism -- Emigration and the Question of Political Passivity -- The Queer Act of Emigration: Avoidance and Unheroic Political Activism -- 7. A Queer Way Out: Israeli Emigration and Unheroic Resistance to Zionism -- Jewish Critique of Prestate Zionism -- Contemporary Jewish and Israeli Critiques of Zionism -- A Queer Way Out: Israeli Emigrants and Unheroic Resistance to Zionism -- The Revival of Diasporic Hebrew -- The Imaginary Political Project of Queer Israeli Emigration -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index