Jake Javanshir is a member of Independent Jewish Voice Canada, Don Heights Unitarian Congregation in Toronto and Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice (CUSJ).
Here are excerpts from Jake Javanshir’s article titled “Israel has taken the wrong path” published by CUSJ on December 19, 2018:
…Of course, the “first sin” was when the British, like Lord Balfour and others, with the cooperation of the Americans and influential small groups of Jews, helped to promote the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine…
As to whether the Jews need or are owed a state, my opinion is, absolutely not. Here is my reasoning: First, Jews are neither a race nor a nation… Second, no country had the right to give someone else’s land to a group who did not live there… Third, many Jews did not want to go to Israel, knowing as they did that they would do as well or better in the West, which proved to be true… Finally, having an exclusive Jewish state, as Israel declared recently with the “nation-state law,” is, in the long run, the worst thing that could happen to Israelis, to Palestinians living in Israel and occupied Palestine territories, to Israel’s neighbours, and to the world…
Israel was artificially and destructively created, and still behaves as a psychopath who is getting worse day by day…
Israel imprisoned two million Palestinians in Gaza and put 800,000 Jewish Taliban in the West Bank, and assassinated many. Israel has made peace an impossibility. This knowledge should stop us from “being nice and balanced” and move us to take peaceful actions. We must stop making excuses for Israel.