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In a widely cited article, Susan Opotow, the well-known authority on moral exclusion, offers the following definition:
Moral exclusion occurs when individuals or groups are perceived as outside the boundary in which moral values, rules, and considerations of fairness apply. Those who are morally excluded are perceived as nonentities, expendable, or undeserving. Consequently, harming or exploiting them appears to be appropriate, acceptable, or just.1
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Susan Opotow, “Moral Exclusion and Injustice: An Introduction,” Journal of Social Issues 46:1 (1990), 1.
Daniel Bar-Tal and Yona Teichman, Stereotypes and Prejudice in Conflict: Representations of Arabs in Israeli Jewish Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 223.
This has recently been corroborated regarding Christians, in particular in Amnon Ramon, Natsrut wenotsrim bimedinat hayehudim: hamediniut hayisraelit kelapei hakenesiot wehakehilot hanotsriot 1948–2010 (“Christians and Christianity in the Jewish State: Israeli Policy towards the Churches and the Christian Communities [1948–2010]”) (Jerusalem: Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies/Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations, 2012). An English summary is available at: www.jcjcr.org/Dev/kyn_article_view.php?aid=221 (October 7, 2011).
See Michael I. Karpin and Ina Friedman, Murder in the Name Of God: The Plot to Kill Yitzhak Rabin (New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998).
Yizhar Be’er and Keren Gitis, Incitement Is Hazardous to Life: Words Can Kill. The Example of Rwanda and Yugoslavia (Report Commemorating the Sixth Anniversary of the Murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin), KESHEV: The Center for the Protection of Democracy in Israel (Hebrew), 20–24. (www.keshev.org.il/siteen/FullNews.asp?NewsID=49&CategoryID=14, July 27, 2011).
David Golinkin, “A Halakhic Response to the Assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin,” Moment 21:1 (1996), 24f.
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Yarden, O. (2013). Recent Halakhic Discourse in Israel Encouraging Racism and Violence. In: Svartvik, J., Wirén, J. (eds) Religious Stereotyping and Interreligious Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137342676_19
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