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I don't accept the Zionist idea.

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords.

I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.

I'm a supporter of Israel, always have been.

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

A bloc of states is emerging that understands that they may have been wrong to think that Israel is the world's greatest problem.

I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.