Jews can reject the violence and inhumanity of Zionism by embracing the diaspora – Mondoweiss

Among American Jews, Jewish identity has often been framed as a problem in need of resolution, most often through the framework of Zionism and the project of the Israeli nation-state. This perspective insists that Jewish identity must be grounded in statehood, militarism, and loyalty to a specific territory. But what if the impulse to resolve diaspora through nationalism is nothing more than a trap ensnaring us into violence and inhumanity?

Rather than look to the nation-state to…