A Green Party motion describing Zionism as racism prompts Rabbi Dovid Lewis and Imam Nasser Kurdy to ask what such language does to Jewish/Muslim relations in Britain.
They discuss why Zionism means different things to different people, why criticism of Israel must remain possible, and why denying either Israelis or Palestinians a future deepens the conflict rather than resolving it.
The conversation also turns personal, Nasser reflects on being stereotyped as a Muslim and a terrorist, while Dovid describes the exhaustion of repeatedly defending Israel’s existence.
Together, they argue for a harder but more constructive question: not whether one people belongs, but how Israelis and Palestinians can live with safety, dignity and political rights.
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