JTA reports:

For much of the modern history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the phrase “one-state solution” was a fringe idea, especially among Jewish supporters of Israel. The proposal that Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs would live under one government was largely seen as the very antithesis of Zionism, which asserts the legitimacy of Jewish nationalism and the right to establish a Jewish-led state in Jews’ ancestral homeland.

That is changing — at least in some corners of the Jewish world.

A recent poll found that roughly half of American Jews under 35 support resolving the conflict by creating a single binational state spanning Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, with a government elected by both Jews and Palestinians. The Jewish Voter Resource Center poll, released May 21, found that among non-Orthodox Jews under 35, support was slightly higher.

Across the Jewish population as a whole, support for such a solution was far lower, about one-quarter, with older Jews much more likely to favor some version of two states or an explicitly Jewish state.

Writing on Substack in June, MJ Rosenberg, who supported the two-state solution as the policy director of the Israel Policy Forum in the early 2000s, declared his support for a “single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.”

“It would belong to everyone who lives there,” wrote Rosenberg. “Jewish civil rights would be fully protected. Palestinian civil rights would be fully protected. The government would derive its legitimacy from citizenship rather than ethnicity.” [Continue reading…]