I love how the interviewer phrases the question as if it is the state’s ‘Jewishness’ that is the problem and not…you know…how it is an example of a régime that oppresses minorities because of their heritage.

Believe it or not, there was a point where I had a friendly interest (not necessarily approval) of the ethnostate precisely because of its ‘Jewishness’, but the more that I learned about it, the less that I liked it. The régime neglects houseless Jews, Jews of color have lower living standards than white Jews, their Palestinian kin have the lowest living standards of all, there is violent opposition to whom Jews can love (such as Arab gentiles), and the ruling class has been pissing off its neighbors and sacrificing thousands of Jews for its lousy wars. The place is a deathtrap.

It would be a good idea to ask anticolonial Jews theirselves why they would not want to live in a ‘Jewish state’. @AYJANIBRAHIMOV@lemmygrad.ml already laid out the theologic reasoning, but there are irreligious arguments, too. If I were a gentile living in Gaza, for example, it would be extremely difficult for me to continue doing research online, continue telling other users here about modern history, and attend a Jewish person’s Seder, Chanukkah celebration, other holidays, or Synagogue services even though I really want to.

Americans seem awfully uncomfortable when you point out they were an Apartheid state within living memory lol. I guess it’s a less flattering (and more honest and therefore damning) term than “segregation” or Jim Crow.