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Intergalactic Zionism
From Sinai to the stars: a Zionism with a higher calling, for everyone who lives here.
For me Zionism is a natural expression of the historic prayer to return home and build a country where we can be free to live as God intended. But nationalism without a higher calling turns into chauvinism, so the real question is what Zionism is for. My answer is a horizontal covenant: one shared country, where Israel is not abolished and Palestine becomes a coequal interior and coauthor.
The intergalactic part is the horizon. The covenant started on a mountain in the desert, and I don’t see where it’s supposed to stop. That’s why A New Deal for Zion ends with a learning commonwealth, and why my art series Zion 6000 imagines Jerusalem in the Hebrew year 6000.
It is not an ideology of statism or ethno-supremacy. It is a civilizational project with ever-expanding horizons, relevant to all of humanity and to every sentient being: building a civilization here, and engaging one day with other civilizations, other species, and other worlds.
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- Zionism: Toward a Horizontal Covenant of Israel 22 April 2025