Published: 4 September 2024
Last updated: 11 September 2024
MiltonFisher, 98
retired
Birkdale, Queensland
I was once a fervent Zionist purchasing Israeli bonds and having an intense pride in the Israeli victory in the Yom Kippur War. I have since cashed in my bonds and published a document called Self-Determination and Human Rights. The document makes the case that a country that calls itself democratic must not favour any religion or ethnicity of part of its population. It must have a separation of religion and state. Otherwise, it will imitate those countries where we Jews were second-class citizens. Israel can be a Jewish state or a democratic state. It cannot be both.