>Instead, a more important criticism of Israel, which the left ought to be
>making, would challenge the fundamental legitimacy of a state based on a
>definition of "peoplehood" primarily around a criterion of descent. That is
>and always has been racism, going back, institutionally at least to the
>passage of the Law of Return. Demanding repeal of that law as a component
>of
>a peace settlement is a sound left demand. So too, abolition of the
>official
>rôle of the orthodox rabbinate.
>
Agreed. I support the separation of church (or synagogue) and state as a fundamental premise of Enlightement liberalism. It's not a popular positionin AMerica either. jks
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