My global response:
"Ethnic nationalism" can be mundane, if not redundant of the nation-state itself, as Jim Devine appears to agree with in a later post. Try and become a citizen of Japan if you are not ethnically Japanese. There are very few nation-states that are not ethnically based. So calling Israel an example of ethnic-nationalism is in one sense entirely trivial. But that is not how it was intended in context. The "worst example" is an accusation of excess that is off the charts. And we all know the examplar of the worst example of ethnic nationalism is Nazi Germany. Comparisons of Israel and Nazi Germany are common discourse, both in the Arab world and the Western anti-Zionist world. Why deny the implication of the statement? I stand by my reasonable reader comment.
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