Democracy Now! speaks to Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart about his new book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, which is “addressed to my fellow Jews” and criticises what he characterises as the increasing privileging of Zionism as a part of Jewish identity.
“The Jewish community is structured to basically make the existence of a Jewish state, a state that privileges Jews over Palestinians, sacred, … elevat[ing] ethnonationalism – a Jewish state – over Judaism itself,” Beinart says.
In response, he challenges the erasure of Zionism’s explicitly colonial roots and political myths about majoritarian rule, arguing for the acceptance of more critical stances toward the state of Israel within Jewish communities.
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