Et voilà que le New York Times publie, sur son site Web, un article du philosophe Joseph Levine contestant, longuement, le droit d’Israël à exister en tant qu’État juif : On Questioning the Jewish State.
▻http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/on-questioning-the-jewish-state
I conclude, then, that the very idea of a Jewish state is undemocratic, a violation of the self-determination rights of its non-Jewish citizens, and therefore morally problematic. But the harm doesn’t stop with the inherently undemocratic character of the state. For if an ethnic national state is established in a territory that contains a significant number of non-members of that ethnic group, it will inevitably face resistance from the land’s other inhabitants. This will force the ethnic nation controlling the state to resort to further undemocratic means to maintain their hegemony. Three strategies to deal with resistance are common: expulsion, occupation and institutional marginalization. Interestingly, all three strategies have been employed by the Zionist movement: expulsion in 1948 (and, to a lesser extent, in 1967), occupation of the territories conquered in 1967 and institution of a complex web of laws that prevent Israel’s Palestinian citizens from mounting an internal challenge to the Jewish character of the state.
Le New York Times ? Oui, le New York Times. Prévoir un scandale à base d’imputation d’antisémitisme dans le courant de la semaine prochaine, et idéalement quelqu’un va se faire virer.