ABSTRACT

The aim of this article is to analyze the reactions of some mainstream Israeli politicians to a celebrity marriage between Tzahi Halevi, a Jewish Israeli actor, and Lucy Aharish, a Palestinian Israeli TV personality. Drawing upon the notion of stance, we unveil the affective trouble generated by this heterosexual union vis-à-vis the Israeli national project. More specifically, we tease out the kaleidoscopic collage of politicians’ affective (dis)attachments in relation to Halevi, Aharish and a variety of socioculturally relevant categories such as the Israeli nation. This affective patchwork, we argue, is itself the product of a tension that is at the very heart of the Israeli nation-state, that between the policing of Jewishness as the defining principle of the Israeli national imagined community, on the one hand, and the upholding of the democratic imperative to equal treatment and recognition, on the other.

摘要

本文的目的是分析一些以色列主流政客对以色列犹太演员 Tzahi Halevi 和巴勒斯坦以色列电视名人 Lucy Aharish 名人联姻的反应。借助立场的概念，我们揭示了这种异性恋联盟与以色列国家计划之间产生的情感问题。更具体地说，我们梳理出政治家情感（dis）依恋的千变万化的拼贴画与 Halevi、Aharish 和各种与社会文化相关的类别（例如以色列民族）有关。我们认为，这种情感拼凑本身就是处于以色列民族国家核心的紧张局势的产物，一方面是将犹太人作为以色列民族想象社区的定义原则，另一方面又是紧张局势的产物。另一方面，坚持平等对待和承认的民主必要性。