The nation-state concept long ago lost its allure for many of those on the Left. Perhaps they take the lyrics of John Lennon’s much celebrated song a little too seriously:
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too ...
Sarah Schulman, author of Israel/Palestine and the Queer International,
is so repelled by the notion of patriotism that she prefers to identify
her abode as New York rather than the United States. Daniel Gordis, at
the other end of the spectrum, presents in The Promise of Israel a case against fashionable one-worldism. Both Schulman and Gordis use the case of modern-day Israel to support their disparate worldviews.It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too ...
This article can be read in full at the following link:
http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2013/4/nationalism-and-identity-politics-in-israel
