2: 41<br>The real Israel<br>My view is different. Israel hasn’t failed. Rather, the Zionist project has succeeded remarkably well. That’s the problem. What we are seeing today is very much the Israel I eventually came to know, without the mask. <br><br>The Zionist project is not done yet, of course — colonialism, after all, is not a singular event, but rather a process — but it is now far more ready to declare Israel, Zionism’s brainchild, for what it is: a single state of Jewish supremacy. <br><br>The religious fundamentalism and ultranationalism have become so explicit that even diehard Zionists can’t ignore it, pushing the likes of Alan Dershowitz to voice their misgivings. He is, of course, not opposed to a Jewish state — he calls opposition to a Jewish state outright antisemitic — but the façade of democracy is peeling off.<br>✓Jonathan Ofir