{"id":36321,"date":"2018-08-01T07:52:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T12:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36321"},"modified":"2018-08-01T07:52:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T12:52:04","slug":"will-tribalism-trump-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36321","title":{"rendered":"Will Tribalism Trump Democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Will<\/a><\/p>\n

Will Tribalism Trump Democracy?<\/a><\/h3>\n

On July 19, the Knesset voted to change the nation\u2019s Basic Law.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Angry reactions, not only among Israeli Arabs and Jews, came swift.<\/p>\n

Allan Brownfeld of the American Council for Judaism calls the law a \u201cretreat from democracy\u201d as it restricts the right of self-determination, once envisioned to include all within Israel\u2019s borders, to the Jewish people. Inequality is enshrined.<\/p>\n

And Israel, says Brownfeld, is not the nation-state of American Jews.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The struggle is between the claims of tribe, ethnicity, peoples and nations, against the commands of liberal democracy.<\/p>\n

In Europe, the Polish people seek to preserve the historic and ethnic character of their country with reforms that the EU claims violate Poland\u2019s commitment to democracy.<\/p>\n

If Warsaw persists, warns the EU, the Poles will be punished. But which comes first: Poland, or its political system, if the two are in conflict?<\/p>\n

Other nations are ignoring the open-borders requirements of the EU\u2019s Schengen Agreement, as they attempt to block migrants from Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n

They want to remain who they are, open borders be damned.<\/p>\n

Britain is negotiating an exit from the EU because the English voted for independence from that transitional institution whose orders they saw as imperiling their sovereignty and altering their identity.<\/p>\n

When Ukraine, in the early 1990s, was considering secession from Russia, Bush I warned Kiev against such \u201csuicidal nationalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ukraine ignored President Bush. Today, new questions have arisen.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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