“I try to appeal to the experience of Jews, the experience of the Holocaust, by saying, it’s not just never again for Jews, it’s never again for anybody. I also try to present facts that are hard to put aside. Rockets from Gaza killed three Israelis; Israelis retaliated with an enormous bombardment that killed 1,000 people, you can’t simply write that off or say, well, they’re morally equivalent or it was bad on both sides. Or the Lebanese send rockets into Israel, killing a number of people, and the Israelis  invade Lebanon in 1982 and there are 14,000 civilian casualties. These are horrors inflicted by a Jewish state. As a Jew, I feel ashamed when I read these things…I try to appeal to what I think are the best legacies of the Jewish people, people like Albert Einstein and Martin Buber, who cannot be simply written off, because they’re Jewish heroes and these people are people who were critical of Israel and sympathetic to Palestinians…I think the Jewish state was a mistake. Yes, obviously it is too late to go back. It was a mistake to drive the Indians off the American continent, but it’s too late to give it back. At the time, I thought creating Israel was a good thing, but in retrospect, it was probably the worst thing that the Jews could have done. What they did was join the Nationalistic frenzy, they became privy to all of the evils that Nationalism creates and became very much like the United States, very aggressive, violent, and bigoted. When Jews were without a state, they were internationalists and they contributed to whatever culture they were part of and produced great things. Jews were known as kindly, talented people. Now, I think, Israel is contributing to Anti-Semitism. So, I think it was a big mistake.”