Israel, unless it withdraws from the West Bank and ends its illegal occupying settlements, will soon have to choose between remaining a Jewish state or a democratic one. Peter Beinart disagrees with Tony Kushner but thinks "there’s something valuable about his challenge":
There are only two intellectually honest positions. Either you believe so strongly in a Jewish democratic state that you actively oppose everyone who opposes that vision, or you widen the public discussion to include both those who want a democratic state that is non-Jewish and those who want a Jewish state that is non-democratic. Either would be better than what we have now: organizations like Hillel and figures such as Wiesenfeld who pay lip service to democratic Israel but only defend Jewish Israel. If Tony Kushner lays bare that hypocrisy, he will have more than earned his honorary degree.
It looks like Kushner will get his honorary degree after all. I wonder if he has space on his wall.
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