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I think what's happened in Jewish communities in the US around the world is is that a a religion a vast and religion that speaks in many many different voices but emphasizes the Dignity of all human beings has been swallowed by ethn nationalism in many Jewish communities around in the United
States today you get in more trouble for challenging the legitimacy of the state of Israel than for questioning the authority of the Torah
I spent a fair amount of my childhood in a place where white South African an including members of my own family were absolutely convinced that if there was legal
equality if black people got the vote and could form a black government that their lives would be in Mortal danger it was considered just obvious and the
reason I think this is important is that we it is so common in American Jewish and American discourse to assume that if the Palestinians got equality Jews could never live in Israel and Palestine safely and
the point I try to make in my book is that white South Africans
believe the same thing Protestants in Northern Ireland believe the same thing Ian Paisley the Protestant leader on the eve of the Good Friday agreement which gave Catholics
it Prelude to genocide so many white Southerners and white Americans in general believe that without slavery and segregation white people would become
the slaves would become the oppressed class
it's not true it wasn't true in fact what we find is that when you give people a voice in government when they
can be represented that violence goes down because people have a nonviolent pth for for government to listen to them
that it seems to me is the lesson that Jews should try to learn from those experiences
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Peter Beinart is the author of the new book “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning,” which criticizes what he characterizes as the increasing privileging of Zionism as a part of Jewish identity.
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