“The Zionist movement succeeded in creating a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel over sixty years ago”

The Zionist movement succeeded in creating a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel over sixty years ago. Its current challenge is to become a truly liberal democratic country of all its citizens and work towards peace with a homeland for the Palestinian people in Palestine. It is immoral to deny the Palestinian people a homeland. It is immoral to deny Palestinian citizens of the State of Israel full and equal rights de facto and not only de jure. It is immoral and delusional for the American Jewish community to indulge in conversations about whether or not the Palestinian people exists.

Aryeh Cohen, “How I Lost My Zionism”, The Daily Beast (15 May 2012) [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/15/how-i-lost-my-zionism.html]