Reviews
"this is an important book-very well argued, extremely comprehensive an thorough-which future judges and politicians should take into account when the next wave of intolerance washes over their democratic shores, whether in Israel, or elsewhere...."
--Studies in Contemporary Jewry
...provides important, scholarly pathways both to and from the study of Israeli politics.
--Middle East Journal
"Cohen-Almagor certainly knows the material he is dealing with and his own positions are well-grounded analytically, epirically, and normatively."
--International Journal of Middle East Studies
"includes a comprehensive survey of philosophical opinions on what Karl Popper has called the paradox of tolerance, and a number of original contributions by the author. Of particular interest is his distinction between manifest and latent tolerance."
--The Jewish Quarterly Review
"Raphael Cohen-Almagor's insightful examination of the meanings of liberty in relation to political extremism in Israel will interest audiences well beyond Middle Eastern studies."
"All participants in and observers of the on-going Middle Eastern democratic experiments will learn valuable lessons by reading Cohen-Almagor's analysis. The text is accesible and could easily be used in the undergraduate classroom. The rigor with which the case study is pursued makes it rich and detailed enough to hold the specialist's attention as well." -- MESA Bulletin
--MESA Bulletin