Reform Judaism opposed any Jewish State for two reasons: first, Judaism, in this view, is a religion comprising a worldwide faith community made up of many different peoples; it is not “a people.” Declaring that Jews were a single people with their “own state” would distort a religion that was held as embodying universal values and compromise the Jewish citizens of other countries through the suspicion of dual loyalty. Second, Palestine was already inhabited largely by Arab Muslims and Christians—the Palestinians. Palestine was not, contrary to myth, a “land without a people.” Full stop.
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