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They're attacked maliciously and viciously. Israel gets away with murder and much more. Accountability is long overdue. So is challenging its right to exist responsibly.
Doing so isn't a right to life issue. It "sounds awfully close to permitting the extermination of its people," said Levine. "It's not surprising many would view it that way.''"So what is this 'right' that many uphold as so basic that to question it reflects anti-Semitism, and yet is one that I claim ought to be questioned?"
Key for Levine is claiming Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. Denying non-Jews equal rights is unconscionable. It's incompatible with democracy. It's more than that.
Stealing historic Palestine was lawless. It's criminal. Slaughtering or displacing hundreds of thousands doing so constitutes genocide. It continues today non-stop. It's slow-motion, not fast.
Responsible officials remain unaccountable. World leaders turn a blind eye. Millions of Palestinians suffer. Long denied justice remains unresolved.
Jews have a right to live in historic Palestine or anywhere. So Do Muslims, Christians and others. Running things despotically is lawless. Institutionalized racism has no place in free societies.
"Any state that 'belongs' to one ethnic group within it violates the core democratic principle of equality, and the self-determination rights of the non-members of that group," says Levine.He "conclude(s) that the very idea of a Jewish state is undemocratic. (He calls it) a violation of the self-determination rights of its non-Jewish citizens, and therefore morally problematic."
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