ABSTRACT
The claim that the emergence of new activist groups, social collectives and NGO's is generally associated with processes of globalization, neoliberal dominance, and the withdrawal of the state from its social contract with its citizens has gained central stage in social theory. Though these processes indeed take place, they cannot explain the complexity of specific openings within domestic public spaces. Unquestionably, the imperial network in which Israel's military industry is a key factor has structuring effects on the struggle for decolonisation, but as far as ethnic relations is concerned, no withdrawal whatsoever affects Israel's attitude. And to understand the function of civil society organisations only as fulfilling the role of promoting better governmental practices is to reduce their significance by framing their actions within the neoliberal mindset. This chapter views that the revolutionary power to associate and engage into one colonised body that rebels is the immanent plane of thought and action of the project of decolonisation.
