BOUNDARIES OF LIBERTY AND TOLERANCE
Struggle Against Kahanism in Israel The
RAPHAEL COHEN-ALMAGOR
Gainesville, Fl.: University of Florida Press, 1994
Jerusalem: Nevo (1st ed., 1994, Hebrew)
Jerusalem: Academon, (2nd ed., 1999, Hebrew)
Contents
Foreward by Geoffrey Marshall................................
Preface.....................................................
PART 1. THEORY: BOUNDARIES OF LIBERTY AND TOLERANCE
Chapter One. Tolerance and Liberty: General Insight......
A. The Duty To Be Tolerant, the Right To Be Tolerated......
B. Liberty and Autonomy.................................
Chapter Two. The Scope and Characterizations of Tolerance....
A. Reasons for Tolerance..................................
B. Popper's Paradox of Tolerance and Its Modification.......
C. Latent and Manifest Tolerance................
D. Principled and Tactical Compromise...............
Chapter Three. Why Tolerate? The Respect for Others Argument....
A. Preliminaries....................................
B. The Respect for Others Argument......................
C. Between Neutrality and Perfectionism.................
1. Why Liberals Advocate Neutrality...................
2. Neutral Principles: Four Types.........................
3. Dworkin's Concrete Neutrality....................
4. Raz's Promotional Approach and Beyond......................
5. Two Variants of Relativism......................
Chapter Four. The Respect for Others Argument and Cultural Norms.
A. The Dilemma..................................
B. Not Tolerating the Intolerant: A Radical View............
Chapter Five. Freedom of Expression.........................
A. Words: "Keys of Thought" and "Triggers of Action".....
B. Grounds for Special Status.....................
1. The Main Arguments..............................
2. The "Absolutist" School.................................
3. Scanlon's Theory.................................
C. The Harm Principle..............................
Chapter Six. Why Tolerate? The Millian Truth Principle...
A. Preliminaries...........................
B. The Millian Truth Principle...............................
Chapter Seven. Boundaries to Freedom of Expression.............
A. The Millian Arguments................................
B. The Offense Principle................................
Chapter
Eight.
Applying
the
Offense
Principle:
The
Skokie
Controversy...............................................
A. Background....................................
B. The Reasonable Avoidability Standard................
C. Psychological Offense, Morally on a Par with Physical Harm
PART II. APPLICATION: DEMOCRACY ON THE DEFENSIVE: ISRAEL'S
REACTION TO THE KAHANIST PHENOMENON
A. Introduction..........................................
Chapter Nine. The Kahanist Phenomenon.....................
A. Background.....................................
B. The Ideology of Kach..........................
C. The Political Program...............................
Chapter Ten. Legal Background: The Foundations of the Law...
A. The Declaration of Independence and Normative Considerations
B. Precedents........................................
1. Kol Ha'am.............................................
2. Sabri Jeryis............................................
3. Yeredor...........................................
i) The Disqualification of the Socialist List......
ii) The Court's Decision...................
iii) Critical Evaluation of the Court's Decision.........
Chapter Eleven. Attempts to Restrict Kahane's Freedom of Election
A. The Negbi Decision of 1981............................
B. The CEC's Decisions of 1984.......................
1. The Disqualification of Kach.......................
2. The Disqualification of the PLP........................
C. The Court's Decision in Neiman.....................
1. Analysis of the Judgments.............................
i) The Judgment of Deputy President Miriam Ben-Porat .......
ii) The Judgment of President Meir Shamgar .........
iii) The Judgment of Justice Aharon Barak..............
iv) The Judgments of Justices Menachem Elon and Moshe Bejski.
2. Conclusions and Criticism....................
i) The Question of Authority....................
ii) The Logic and Reasoning of the Ruling.............
Chapter
Twelve.
Curtailing
Kahane's
Freedom
Expression...................................................
A. Freedom of Movement..........................
B. The Media's Ban on Kahane................
C. Kahane v. Speaker of the Knesset - Five Chapters......
1. The Right to Submit Motions of No-Confidence....
2. The Right to Submit Bills - Three Appeals.......
i) The First Appeal.................
of
Movement
and
ii) The Right to Submit Bills - Second Appeal............
iii) The Right to Submit Bills - Third Appeal............
3. The Right to Qualify the Knesset Oath..............
Chapter Thirteen. Epilogue................................
A. The Decision of the CEC Regarding the PLP..........
B. The Disqualification of Kach.........
C. The Decision of the CEC Regarding Moledet......
Table of United States Cases..........................
Table of Israeli Cases..........................
Miscellaneous Cases from Other Jurisdictions..................
Notes.........................................................
Selected Bibliography.........................................
Index.........................................................