The secular state’s dependence on Jewish numerical majority is racial at root

Evidence

Yadgar believes that Zionism failed or is unwilling to define a national identity that is independent of Jewish religion, which inevitably makes the state’s – read the secular – definition of Jewish politics racial and exclusionary. He argues that the claim of fusion between religion and nationalism in the Israeli case emanates from a secularist epistemology, but he doesn’t offer any suggestions for an alternative identity that is independent of religion or how such an identity can pose an alternative to the claim of total fusion between religion and nationalism. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 160