Dominant majorities often use idealized categories to validate the ‘goodness’ and deservingness of minority citizens. For Palestinian citizens of Israel, this category is the ‘good Arab’. Since its origins in early Jewish settlement of Palestine, it has become a powerful and controversial metaphor in Israeli public discourse. As an experienced condition of limited inclusion, the ‘good Arab’ exemplifies the Palestinian dilemma of accessing socioeconomic opportunities in Jewish Israeli spaces that stigmatize and fend off their ethnonational identity. Combining a historical genealogy of the ‘good Arab’ with ethnographic research among Palestinians in Tel Aviv, this article shows how a historically evolved logic of settler colonial control and indigenous erasure continues to define liberal frameworks of conditional citizenship and inclusion. Theorized through the emerging concept of conditional inclusion, these insights open up new avenues for analysis and comparison in anthropological debates surrounding indigenous struggles, settler colonialism, urban inclusion, and citizenship.

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善良的阿拉伯人：犹太人在特拉维夫的以色列巴勒斯坦公民中有条件的包容和定居者的殖民公民身份

占多数的多数人经常使用理想化的类别来验证少数族裔公民的“善良”和应有的待遇。对于以色列的巴勒斯坦公民来说，这一类别是“好阿拉伯人”。自起源于犹太人在巴勒斯坦的早期定居点以来，它已成为以色列公众话语中有力且有争议的隐喻。作为有限的包容性的一种经验条件，“好阿拉伯人”体现了巴勒斯坦人在犹太以色列空间中获得社会经济机会的两难境地，这些社会面孔羞辱并抵制了他们的民族身份。本文将“好阿拉伯人”的历史家谱与特拉维夫的巴勒斯坦人的人种学研究相结合，显示出定居者殖民地控制和土著人擦除的历史演变逻辑如何继续定义有条件的公民身份和包容性的自由框架。有条件的包容性，这些见解为围绕土著斗争，定居者殖民主义，城市包容性和公民身份的人类学辩论开辟了新的途径，可供分析和比较。