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Pat Buchanan: Will Tribalism Trump Democracy?Patrick J. BuchananJul. 31, 2018 |
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 On July 19, the Knesset voted to change the nation's Basic Law. Israel was declared to be, now and forever, the nation-state and national home of the Jewish people. Hebrew is to be the state language. Angry reactions, not only among Israeli Arabs and Jews, came swift. Allan Brownfeld of the American Council for Judaism calls the law a "retreat from democracy" as it restricts the right of self-determination, once envisioned to include all within Israel's borders, to the Jewish people. Inequality is enshrined. And Israel, says Brownfeld, is not the nation-state of American Jews. What makes this clash of significance is that it is another battle in the clash that might fairly be called the issue of our age. The struggle is between the claims of tribe, ethnicity, peoples and nations, against the commands of liberal democracy. Read More 
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