ABSTRACT
This case study focuses on the growth of a Jewish religious exclusionist theology in Israel as expressed by groups/organizations such as Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful). The first part of the case study draws on several thinkers who argue that biblical and classical Judaism does not contain the concept or language of human rights, and therefore the modern idea of human rights does not exist in classic Jewish doctrine. This denial of the concept of human rights in the Jewish tradition is used by some contemporary Israeli religious Jews to justify their ideas and actions that deny and violate the rights of Israel’s non-Jewish citizens and Palestinians.
