Darren Wilson's Side of the Story

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Originally Posted by Boreas

Officially, Israel is not a Jewish state, never has been. It's a "Jewish state" in the same way that America is a "Christian nation". In both cases the attempt to identify multi-confessional nations in terms of the dominant religion is an attempt on the part of the right wing to establish theocratic rule and to partially or wholly disenfranchise religious minorities.

There is currently an effort to put through the Israeli Knesset a bill which, if passed into law, would officially make Israel "the Nation-State of the Jewish People". It's highly controversial, even among Israeli Jews.

John

For much the same reason (i.e., the inability of different groups in Israeli society to agree on the purpose of the state, on the state's identity, and on a long-term vision for the state), the state of Israel does not have a constitution.