Zionism: Stage II

In the Jerusalem Post, Sarah Kreimer turns our attention to the challenge of Zionism today - the creation of a Jewish homeland that will be the state of ALL its citizens.

As we celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday, we need to make a paradigm shift, and to re-envision our society. Sixty years after the founding of the state, we must declare an end to stage one of Zionism - state-building - and move to stage two of society-building. We need to redefine our Israeli civic enterprise, not as a Jewish State, but as a Jewish Homeland, in a state with shared citizenship. Otherwise, in clinging to the visions that have guided Israel in the past, we will destroy what has been built.

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