USC says it's canceling pro-Palestinian valedictorian's speech over security concerns

[Giordano Burno]

7. The Question is Open as to Whether a Jewish Ethno-State is Justified Considering the Holocaust

I tend to fall on the side of it being justified but not if the ethnic-cleansing of an indigenous population is required to establish it.

What is not at question is that the concept of an ethno-state state is fundamentally anti-democratic. We would never accept America as a "white" homeland because it is at odds with liberal, enlightenment values, just as we wouldn't accept an Arab ethno-state in historical Palestine where Jews were forced out.

Arguing for a democratic state that treats Palestinian Arabs and Jews as equal under the law from the Jordan River to Gaza is not fundamentally anti-semitic. It is fundamentally democratic. You can disagree with it or call it naive and unworkable, but certainly calling "hateful" is inaccurate and ignores the ethic cleaning in 1948 and the last 75 years of Palestinian displacement, suffering and humiliation.

We must all come to terms with the fact that the status quo is not viable for either Jews or Palestinians.




>>Tabassum’s Instagram account links to a slideshow encouraging people to “learn about what’s happening in palestine, and how to help.” It calls for “one palestinian state,” which it says “would mean palestinian liberation, and the complete abolishment of the state of israel.”

Trojans for Israel said this “must be denounced as antisemitic bigotry.”