Nir Baram (anti-racist Jewish Israeli writer and author of “A Land without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank” ) commenting on the neo-fascist dominance in Apartheid Israel, the one-state solution and the equal rights struggle in Palestine (2015): “The reason I voted Meretz is that I feared its extinction – and, under the new electoral threshold law, it was indeed close to disappearing. To Meretz’s credit, it has to be said that in this campaign it was the only party, along with the Joint List of the Arab parties, that mentioned an issue that was buried in the recesses of the voters consciousness: the Palestinians. Two states? One state? Occupation? Palestinian rights? The subject was of no interest to the Jewish public… It is our obligation to contemplate new solutions and, above all, to question the feasibility of separation models. The Palestinians are doing so: Groups of them are working for the creation of one state or for a new two-state model that isn’t based on separation. The most critical struggle is to achieve equal rights for everyone living in this space, Jews and Palestinians – the political practicality is only a means to that end. Its also essential to find new partners in Jewish society for the equal-rights struggle, because Israel’s old, entrenched left is too feeble to broaden the circles on its own. In the wake of the election results, everyone in my close circle is in mourning and, in despair, even talking about leaving. I too feel that I have been dealt a vicious blow. But for those who have decided to make their life and their children’s lives here – there is no choice but to prepare for the fight ahead. I will never accept an apartheid state, and for me the struggle for equal rights for Jews and Palestinians is not over” (Nir Baram, “Time to give up on two states but not on coexistence”, Haaretz, 28 March 2015: https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-where-do-we-go-from-here-1.5342906 ).