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Article: The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance: The Struggle Against Kahanism in Israel
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- The Middle East Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Middle East Institute Spring 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance: The Struggle Against Kahanism in Israel, by Raphael Cohen-Almagor. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994. xv + 253 pages. Appends. to p. 260. Notes to p. 305. Bibl. to p. 318. Indices to p. 329. $34.95.
Reviewed by Akiba Covitz
The broad subject matter of this important, and remarkably timely, work of democratic political theory and Israeli legal thought and political practice, is the damage caused to Israeli democracy by the activities of many "Kahanist" groups on the radical right, and the nature and degree of toleration that should be afforded them. Raphael Cohen-Almagor begins his preface to The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance by ...