Abstract
The essay critically examines the relationship between antisemitism, Zionism, and the nation-state, questioning the assumption that the solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict lies in national separation. It reconstructs how the founding of Israel is embedded in modern dynamics of state homogenization and the production of permanent minorities. Starting from the inescapable coexistence of Jews and Palestinians on the same land, the article explores the possibility of a binational horizon “from the river to the sea,” identifying the nation as the central stake of the conflict. Recovering the Brit Shalom tradition and placing it in dialogue with postcolonial authors challenges nativist and identitarian decolonial readings, opening a perspective capable of envisioning coexistence, reconciliation, and political solutions beyond both the nation-state and the current Israeli apartheid, while contributing to a less polarized debate on Zionism and contemporary antisemitism.
