I wrote an essay about the Tunisian Jewish anti-imperialist / pro-Zionist writer Albert Memmi, and the thin line between national liberation and fascism:
abrahamriesman.com/the-jewish-p...
I tried to be as open-hearted as I could in the above essay while also holding onto the principle that all human lives have value
I’ll even go so far as to say if you can’t agree with the conclusions I came to, I’m going to suspect I can’t trust you
These are really hard questions. For me it's hard to make sense of nationalism except as a modern phenomenon, a political and social technology, which can be liberatory or not.
Nation states indeed always have a temptation to ethno-nationalism, but I don't think that's essential to them. Then there's empire -- which has much longer history than the nation-state or the ethno-national state.
