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Questioning the Jewish State

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Topic: Questioning the Jewish State
Posted By: abuayisha
Subject: Questioning the Jewish State
Date Posted: 15 March 2013 at 8:49am

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March 9, 2013, 7:30 pm

On Questioning the Jewish State

By http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/joseph-levine/ - - a proposed exclusion of ultra-Orthodox parties from the governing coalition , for example, failed to note that no Arab political party has ever been invited to join the government.) In other words, the wrong of ethnic hegemony within the state leads to the further wrong of repression against the Other within its midst.

There is an unavoidable conflict between being a Jewish state and a democratic state. I want to emphasize that there�s nothing anti-Semitic in pointing this out, and it�s time the question was discussed openly on its merits, without the charge of anti-Semitism hovering in the background.

Joseph Levine is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he teaches and writes on philosophy of mind, metaphysics and political philosophy. He is the author of �Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness.�



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