'It is only through justice and equality that the Jewish homeland can become what so many hoped and dreamed it would become.'
who had been stabbed to death 25 years earlier by a Jewish Israeli, was seeking revenge for a young Palestinian relative killed by Israeli forces two days earlier. This unending cycle of violence seems almost incomprehensible. Israel was supposed to be a safe-haven for a people forced to endure hundreds of years of dispossession and oppression, but is instead beset by almost constant and unceasing violence.
Martin Buber, an influential philosopher and scholar, warned that forcing Jewish rule on the Arab population would lead to permanent national instability.that the unceasing security threats faced by a Jewish state would prevent the Jewish homeland from becoming a center of spiritual and culture revival, as so many hoped, and would instead force the new state to “apply its best forces to military activity instead of applying them to social and cultural enterprises”.
Political Zionists had hoped a Jewish state would solve the problem of antisemitism. Instead the state they established is among the most dangerous places for Jewish people in the world. Even worse, through alliances with fascist regimes and ultra-nationalist groups and by undermining the human rights organizations created to protect the vulnerable and oppressed, the state of Israel undermines the safety of Jewish diaspora – the very people the state was created to protect.
If we look past the unending state propaganda, it becomes disturbingly clear that while Zionism did indeed create ‘A State’, the state it created is neither a safe-haven for the Jewish people nor has it solved the problem of antisemitism. To the contrary, it may in fact be making the problem of antisemitism much worse. Political Zionism, we are forced to conclude, has failed to live up to its promise.
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