Is there an ‘Israeli Diaspora’? Jewish Israelis negotiating national identity between Zionist ideology and diasporic reality: Yuval Moshkovitz

In this essay I will discuss the implications of the Zionist hegemonic ideology for the construction of a diasporic Israeli identity. I ask whether under the specific ideological and narrative circumstances which instruct Zionism and which still dominate the Israeli imagined community, a Jewish Israeli personal and collective diasporic identity is at all viable, whether ‘any migrant group [is] bound to become “a diaspora”’ or whether there are ‘de-territorialized communities that never become a Diaspora?’1