THE BOUNDARIES
OF LIBERTY AND TOLERANCE
The Struggle Against Kahanism in Israel
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 of Movement and
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.................
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.........................................................
