Book:
This book examines the experiences of Israeli conscientious objectors who refuse to serve in the military because of feelings of ethical objections to the occupation of Palestine. It chronicles the personal experiences of Jewish Israeli conscientious objectors as they grapple with their conscience, and try to justify their actions to society.
Articles:
Forthcoming 2025 (accepted), Beyond Public Reason: Introduction, written with Charis Boutieri and Sami Everett JRAI- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Special Issue Competition Winner Beyond Public Reason-editors and contributors. Participants: Heath Cabot, Farhan Samanani, Carol Greenhouse, Natalie Morningstar, Moises Lino e Silva, Andrew Shyrock
Forthcoming 2025 (accepted) Reasoning without Consensus: Grassroots Experiments in Radical Inclusion in Israel/Palestine, JRAI- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2024 Divergent and Emergent Political Theologies of Peace Amongst Jewish Israelis. Political Theology. 25 (4): 361-379
2022 Peace and Liberal Misrecognition: Non-liberal peace initiatives in Israel-Palestine. The American Sociologist. Accepted.
2022. Adjudicating the Spiritual World in Israeli Courts: Dilemmas of Equality of Justice. Religion, State, and Society 50 (1): 5-21
2020 Nissim Mizrachi and Erica Weiss “We do not want to assimilate!”: Rethinking the role of group boundaries in peace initiatives between Muslims and Jews in Israel and in the West Bank. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Vol 7, Num 2: 172-197.
2019 Erica Weiss and Nissim Mizrachi 2019 A Time of Peace: Divergent Temporalities in Jewish-Palestinian Peace Initiatives. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Vol 9, Num 3: 565–578.
2019 Struggling with Complicity: anti-militarist activism in Israel. Current Anthropology, Vol 60, Num S19: 173-182.
2018 State-Authorizing Citizenship: the narrow field of civic engagement in the liberal age. Theory and Society, Vol 47, Num 4: 467-86
2017 Competing ethical regimes in a diverse society: Israeli military refusers. American Ethnologist, February 2017
2016 Best Practices for Besting the Bureaucracy: avoiding military service in Israel, PoLAR, 39(1)
2016 Refusal as Act, Refusal as Abstention, Cultural Anthropology, 31(3)
2016 ‘There are no chickens in suicide vests’: the Decoupling of Animal Rights and Human Rights in Israel, JRAI, 22(3)
2016 Incentivized Obedience: How a Gentler Israeli Military Prevents Organized Resistance, American Anthropologist, 118(1)
2015 Provincializing Empathy: Humanitarian Sentiment and The Israeli Palestinian Conflict. Anthropological Theory 15(3)
2015 Beyond Mystification: Hegemony, Resistance, and Ethical Responsibility in Israel. Anthropological Quarterly 88(2)
2014 Sacrifice as Social Capital among Israeli Conscientious Objectors. Ethnos 79(3)
2012 Principle or Pathology? Adjudicating the Right to Conscience in the Israeli Military. American Anthropologist 114(1)
2011 The Interrupted Sacrifice: Hegemony and moral crisis among Israeli conscientious objectors. American Ethnologist 38(3)
Other Publications of Significance:
Forthcoming. Invited Commentary on Joel Robbins article “Anthropology Bright and Dark”. Social Analysis.
2024 Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom, Sapiens Magazine. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/palestine- israel-censorship-free-speech/
Weiss, Erica. 2021. “Pseudonyms as Anti-Citation.” In “Rethinking Pseudonyms in Ethnography,” edited by Carole McGranahan and Erica Weiss, American Ethnologist website, 13 December 2021, https://americanethnologist.org/features/collections/rethinking-pseudonyms-in-ethnography/pseudonyms-as-anti-citation
Weiss, Erica, and Carole McGranahan. 2021. “Rethinking Pseudonyms in Ethnography: An Introduction.” In “Rethinking Pseudonyms in Ethnography,” edited by Carole McGranahan and Erica Weiss, American Ethnologist website, 13 December 2021, https://americanethnologist.org/features/collections/rethinking-pseudonyms-in-ethnography/rethinking-pseudonyms-in-ethnography-an-introduction