--- title: "1 Nationality State Quotes By Shlomo Sand" description: "1 Nationality State quotes by Shlomo Sand. Plus more from Shlomo Sand and more Nationality State sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef9/shlomo-sand-42323_israel_dominated-by-zionism-s-particular-concep_2181005.png" --- > [“Dominated by Zionism's particular concept of nationality, the State of Israel still refuses, sixty years after its establishment, to see itself as a republic that serves its citizens. One quarter of the citizens are not categorized as Jews, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shlomo-sand/dominated-by-zionism-s-particular-concept-of-nationality-the-state-of/) [Shlomo Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shlomo-sand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef9/shlomo-sand-42323_israel_dominated-by-zionism-s-particular-concep_2181005.png) ## More by Shlomo Sand > [“Peoples, populations, native populaces, tribes and religious communities are not nations, even though they are often spoken of as such.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shlomo-sand/peoples-populations-native-populaces-tribes-and-religious-communities/) [Shlomo Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shlomo-sand/) > [“Dominated by Zionism's particular concept of nationality, the State of Israel still refuses, sixty years after its establishment, to see itself as a republic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shlomo-sand/dominated-by-zionism-s-particular-concept-of-nationality-the-state-of/) [Shlomo Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shlomo-sand/) > [I don’t think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shlomo-sand/i-don-t-think-books-can-change-the-world-but-when-the-world-begins-to/) [Shlomo Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shlomo-sand/) > [“The inescapable and troublesome conclusion was that if there was a political entity in tenth-century Judea, it was a small tribal kingdom, and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shlomo-sand/the-inescapable-and-troublesome-conclusion-was-that-if-there-was-a/) [Shlomo Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shlomo-sand/) > [“One of the secrets of the Muslim army's power was its relatively liberal attitude toward the religions of the defeated people-provided they were monoththeists,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shlomo-sand/one-of-the-secrets-of-the-muslim-army-s-power-was-its-relatively/) [Shlomo Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shlomo-sand/) > [“Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shlomo-sand/behind-every-act-in-israel-s-identity-politics-stretches-like-a-long/) [Shlomo Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shlomo-sand/) > [If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shlomo-sand/if-certain-jewish-communities-had-distinctive-qualities-they-were-due/) [Shlomo Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shlomo-sand/) > [“The construction of a new body of knowledge always bears direct connection to the ideology in which it operates. Historical insights that diverge from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shlomo-sand/the-construction-of-a-new-body-of-knowledge-always-bears-direct/) [Shlomo Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shlomo-sand/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nationality-state/shlomo-sand/#itemlist", "name": "1 Nationality State Quotes By Shlomo Sand", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Dominated by Zionism's particular concept of nationality, the State of Israel still refuses, sixty years after its establishment, to see itself as a republic that serves its citizens. One quarter of the citizens are not categorized as Jews, and the laws of the state imply that Israel is not their state nor do they own it. The state has also avoided integrating the local inhabitants into the superculture it has created, and has instead deliberately excluded them. Israel has also refused to be a consociational democracy (like Switzerland or Belgium) or a multicultural democracy (like Great Britain or the Netherlands)—that is to say, a state that accepts its diversity while serving its inhabitants. Instead, Israel insists on seeing itself as a Jewish state belonging to all the Jews in the world, even though they are no longer persecuted refugees but full citizens of the countries in which they choose to reside. 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