introduction19 deconstructed. In doing so, it is shown in this chapter that the creation and maintenance of an Other, a non-member or outsider excepted from the social arrangement, lies at the base of the traditional model of citizenship. Particular attention is paid here to recent scholarly literature that problematizes both the boundaries of legal categorizations and readings of contemporary citizenship as being anchored in a territorialized nationstate. Moreover, the concept of an incorporation regime as outlined by Yasemin Soysal is examined to show how self-conceptions of nationhood and statehood are inscribed in the citizenship regime of a state. With this, Chapter One begins my discussion of the Israeli incorporation regime. Chapter Two contains most of the empirical background to support the arguments in this book. It begins with an extensive account of the numerous ways in which the colonial logic of pre-1948 Zionism was amended, yet remained a major inspiration in its post-1967 realization. The complex manifestations of the language and logic of colonialism in Zionist literature, campaigns, settlement plans, policies, and mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion are all outlined in this chapter. From this, I delineate the multifaceted discrimination of Arab citizens of Israel at the legislative, formal and declarative, structural and institutional, and operative and budgetary levels to illustrate the ways in which the colonial logic of pre1948 Zionism continues to resurface in contemporary Israeli democracy. In other words, the historical matrix of colonialism within which the Jewish national movement burgeoned is explained as a main source of the Israeli incorporation regime and the multifaceted discrimination faced by Arab citizens today. In Chapter Three I employ Jacques Derrida’s concept of hostipitality to describe the hostile dynamic that is requisite to hospitality. Derrida argues that hospitality simultaneously combines the assertion of a home whose host both welcomes the Other and imposes conditions of a certain hostility towards the Other. He reveals elements of mastery that condition hospitality, arguing that recognition of the hospitality of the host is an acknowledgement of her/his authority. Derrida’s concept is used to show that questions of ‘who is the guest’ and ‘who is the host’, the interchangeability of these roles, and the violent dynamics between them are key to understanding the development of Arab and Jewish relations as citizens of the same state. From here, I embark on a two-part examination of Israeli hostipitality. First, I outline how the Zionist account of the hospitable Jewish state, as a home into which the Arab minority citizen population can be welcomed, is more accurately conceptualized as an exercise of Derridean hostipitality. And second, I explain that engagement with the