Zionism and Political Liberalism: The Right of Scattered Nations to Self-Determination
Abstract
This Article offers a defense of egalitarian Zionism that, unlike Chaim
Gans’s argument for this view, does not appeal to the Jewish problem
in justifying the Zionist requirement for a state with a dominant Jewish
community. The argument extracts from the egalitarian principles
that underlie John Rawls’s political liberalism, a conception of global
justice according to which members of a scattered nation are entitled
to a fair opportunity to establish a new state within which they enjoy
the advantage of demographic dominance.
Gans’s argument for this view, does not appeal to the Jewish problem
in justifying the Zionist requirement for a state with a dominant Jewish
community. The argument extracts from the egalitarian principles
that underlie John Rawls’s political liberalism, a conception of global
justice according to which members of a scattered nation are entitled
to a fair opportunity to establish a new state within which they enjoy
the advantage of demographic dominance.