ABSTRACT
The first part of the chapter deconstructs and contextualises an oral account and mode of subjectivity of another senior-roles holder in the field, who simultaneously works in the military intelligence from time to time. The second part of the chapter draws on the full body of interviews and field-notes, and explicates rhetorical and discursive formations, as well as shared morphologies and premises, of the mission, that accompany non-academic mizrahanist interventions. Despite the discussed vision or mission, many academic mizrahans, as well as the majority of Israeli academics, tend to avoid entering controversial political debates publicly, particularly in matters of security and ‘the Arabs’. The following exercise searches for commonly constructed ideological hierarchies and discursive formations employed in the mizrahanist public mission narratives. While academic mizrahans take on different public interventions as mizrahans, academic mizrahanut as a field of power shares the notion and import of a mizrahanist mission.
