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March 13, 2015

Why Should Israel Be a Nation-State at All?

Because nationalism ties together the particular and the universal.

The proposal by the Netanyahu government to enshrine Israel’s status legally as “the nation-state of the Jewish people” has met with much controversy. Placing the proposed legislation in its philosophical and historical context, Yehudah Mirsky argues that nationalism and the nation-state do much more good than is often assumed, and are preferable to universalism:

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March 13, 2015

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