Is Israel’s “Jewish State” Demand a Source of Oppression?

My posts on Israel – Palestine tend to focus either on what I believe is a ludicrous demand on the part of Israel that it be recognized as a “Jewish State” or on the oppression of Palestinians.

But I never considered the possible connection between the Jewish State demand and the oppression.

In a piece last weekend in Ha’aretz, One wretched Jewish state, Gideon Levy makes the case for such a connection:

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