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Dr. Hadas Cohen, a post-doctoral fellow at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin, discusses with host Gilad Halpern her analysis of the construction of Israeli identity through transgressions and aberrations from it, specifically the case of the “traitress” Tali Fahima.
Song: Russo and Weinberg – Travel
Yes, it is your role as a political researcher to ask the question.
Dr. Cohen, yes, it is your call what questions you ask and deciding apriori what questions are suitable and which are not is not good academic practice.
Behind your refusal to ask certain questions and behind saying that it is not your role to believe her or not lies a bias that you don’t want to acknowledge.
Rather you should realise, if you don’t already, and admit that you too have a bias and that is shaping what questions you ask and how you represent the answers given.