Opinion |
Why American Jews Should Reject Israel's Law of Return
Israel's Law of Return entrenches Jewish exceptionalism, suffocates democracy and empowers a grotesquely theocratic and discriminatory view of citizenship. American Jews should oppose it
On June 12, 1995, Quebec held a referendum on independence from Canada. The "No" vote was 50.58 percent and 49.42 percent voted "Yes."
Imagine there had been a swing of three-quarters of a percent, and Quebec had become a sovereign state with a population of eight million people, about 80 percent of whom were French-speaking Roman Catholics – most of whom fancied themselves the true "Quebecois" – founding the only overwhelmingly Catholic commonwealth in North America.