[lbo-talk] Jewish "nation"? (Was Armenian genocide?)

[Marvin Gandall]

Chris wrote:
>
> Yep, that's exactly what Birobidzhan was. The idea was
> to create a territory for the Jewish nation.
>
> This is all tied in with the I think dubious notion
> that to be a nation you need to have, or should have,
> a territory (state).
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Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, the mistake some on the left make is to
confuse their own bias in favour of breaking down national barriers with the
right of others who are disgruntled to opt out of multinational states. This
has always been a problem on the Canadian left in relation to Quebec, for
example, and there are many other similar examples of how leftists react to
separatist movements which invoke the right to national self-determination.