Opposing Jewish statehood does not constitute anti-Semitism

Published: 29 January 2021

Last updated: 4 March 2024

PETER BEINART: The American Jewish establishment argues that denying Jews a state of their own violates their right to national self-determination. They’re wrong.

There is no right to a state (Jewish Currents)
The Biden administration must soon choose whether to accept the Jewish establishment’s claim that opposing Jewish statehood constitutes anti-Semitism. If it does, it will legitimisze the perverse argument that treating Jews and Palestinians equally constitutes bigotry but privileging Jews over Palestinians does not. And, in so doing, it will delay Americans’ much-needed reckoning with the current one-state reality in Israel/Palestine, where one people’s right to self-determination comes at the cost of another’s.

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