At first glance, the Israeli right might be regarded as a sort of monolith. Characterized by intransigence vis-à-vis the great powers (initially the British) and the Arabsalike and with iconic strongmen at the helm, both the post-independence Herut party and its interwar predecessor(s) clearly demonstrated to the outside world what Zionist maximalism stood for, particularly in terms of its political and terriotiral demands. on a closer look, however, many of the sought after parallels between the interwar Zionist right and the post-independence Israeli right are more imagined than real. in fact, not only were the particular groupings made up of different sets of players (often in opposition to each other), but their very worldviews differed, sometimes fundamentally. After all, the paramilitary groups from which the Israeli right developed had self-distanced themselves from any sort of reliance on political means or international guarantees, rejecting the very notions which had stood at the core of interwar Revisionism, the alleged forefather of the Israeli right., Jan Zouplna., and Obsahuje bibliografii
Mezinárodní konferenci „The Protest Movements in the Contemporary Middle East“ (Protestní hnutí na současném Blízkém východě) hostila Akademie věd na Národní třídě v Praze. Uspořádal ji Orientální ústav AV ČR ve dnech 29.-30. května 2014 za spoluúčasti Francouzského ústavu pro výzkum ve společenských vědách v Praze (Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales - CEFRES) a za podpory Groupe de Recherches et d’Etudes sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen-Orient (GREMMO, Lyon) a Cercle des Chercheurs sur le Moyen-Orient (CCMO). Sympozium zahájil jako hlavní řečník prof. Henry Laurens z Collège de France v Paříži. and Ondřej Beránek, Jan Zouplna.