To proclaim Israel’s right to exist is to proclaim that a political entity founded by a group of individuals on an ideology of ethno-racial chauvinism has a moral right to land it obtained through brutal ethnic cleansing. The Zionist movement had (and has) as its premise that Palestine is “Jewish land” and that non-Jews are unfit for it. Thus it had (has) to be “redeemed.” The outcome was what the Palestinians call the Nakba, or catastrophe. The political entity known as Israel thus occupies land stolen from Palestinian people.
