Israel’s premise of singular Jewish being reenacts the exclusionary logic Jews fled

Evidence

I am concerned here insistently to question not Israel’s being, its right to exist, but rather its forms of expression and its modes of self-insistence and enforcement. I have been holding up to scrutiny, in short, the presumed singularity of Jewish ways of being on which the Israeli state is presumptuously predicated, a presumption that ironically reinscribes the restrictive, corrosive, even purging logic from which Jews historically have repeatedly fled. A two-state solution predicated on dismantling – effectively crippling – any of the cohering and enabling institutions of one partner state is tantamount to disabling one twin that the other might thrive. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 701

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘twin’ metaphor for two-state solution — disabling one twin so the other thrives — is worth unpacking further as an argument against crippling Palestinian institutions.
• XREF: connects to: Israel’s religious-secular binary functions as a self-purifying rhetoric that masks racial exclusion — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 708