COLLECTION
Whose Terms?

DESCRIPTOR
Israel–Palestine, explored through interactive cases.

CAMPAIGN LINE
See how power works.

TITLE
A Right on Paper

HOOK
What makes a right usable?

LEAD
Follow people trying to reach a job, claim service benefits, live together, and return home under a court order. Use Shafir and Peled’s Being Israeli to explore who qualifies, who decides, and how rights become usable.

SOURCE CREDIT
Based on Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled, Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship (2002), alongside separately dated documentary sources.

CREATOR CREDIT
Created by Yoav Duman

ESTIMATED DURATION
90–120 minutes for the full class activity; a planning estimate that varies with writing and discussion. Solo or pairs; save and return.

CTA
Open the case

FORMAT
Self-contained browser simulation

CASE URL
https://yoavduman.com/lab/whose-terms/a-right-on-paper

COLLECTION URL
https://yoavduman.com/lab/whose-terms

SOCIAL CAPTION
What makes a right usable? A Right on Paper is a new Whose Terms? investigation into citizenship, institutions, and belonging in Israel–Palestine. Follow a case, use evidence, and build an explanation. Based on Shafir and Peled’s Being Israeli. Created by Yoav Duman. https://yoavduman.com/lab/whose-terms/a-right-on-paper

ALT HERO
Conceptual illustration of folded-paper civic thresholds, with people at a bus shelter, a meeting table, and a care institution.

ALT PORTRAIT
Conceptual illustration of neighbors discussing a document in a courtyard below a folded-paper stair and doorway.

ART CAPTION
Conceptual illustrations of institutions and everyday agency. They do not depict an actual case, institution, or event.

SOURCE BOUNDARY
The authors’ historical argument, later documentary evidence, and constructed decisions are identified separately. The simulation is an educational model; the authors’ credit does not imply endorsement.

VERSION
2.1.0

PREPARED DATE PACIFIC
2026-10-16