racism against Arabs in Israel is rising, according to at least one recent poll. In a survey for the Centre Against Racism, a poll of Jewish Israelis found that- more than half believed it was treason for a Jewish woman to marry an Arab man;
- 40% said Arabs should no longer have the right to vote in parliamentary elections; and
- 75% opposed apartment blocks being shared by Jews and Arabs.
Avraham Burg, a Jewish former speaker of the Knesset and
former chair of the Jewish Agency, delivered his own denunciation of
Israel's structure. "It can't work any more," he said. "To define the state of Israel as a Jewish state is the key to its end. A Jewish state is explosive. It's dynamite." Burg too called for a change to the Law of Return and was highly critical of what he called Israel's "confrontational Zionism".
The Law of Return, he argues, is a fundamental problem, as is the idea of a state both Jewish and democratic.
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