Ephraim Nimni, is a reader in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. He edited “The Challenge of Post-Zionism” (2003) and is a scholar in the areas of Comparative ethnic conflict, Theories of ethnicity and nationalism, national cultural autonomy and minority rights, extra-territorial self-determination, Multiculturalism, and the Israeli Palestinian Conflict. (see: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/Staff/Nimni/ and http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/encounter/voices-of-dissent/3135248 ).
Professor Ephraim Nimni on genocidal Zionist and Jewish Israeli racism (2009): “In most Western societies, to say that you want your particular country to be a state of all its citizens, would be a kind of banal platitude that would be a non-starter in any political discussion - everybody would agree to it. In the Israeli state, if I want to say that I would like to see the State of Israel to be a state of all its citizens, that is a profoundly controversial argument, and this makes Israel to be very much at odds with all of Western Liberal democracies… There's a term that has become very fashionable in Israeli society, it's the idea of a transfer of population, the idea that those Palestinians that are Israeli citizens in the process of a settlement with the Palestinians, they will have to be transferred to other parts so that the territory that remains part of the Israeli state will remain overwhelmingly Jewish. And that situation in which they feel that the Jewish majority is slowly dwindling, is an issue that is in many ways exacerbating the insecurity. And there is this kind of obsessive, I would say paranoiac and obsessive desire to protect this identity, this Jewish identity and this Jewish being at all costs.” [1].
[1]. Professor Ephraim Nimni interviewed by Gary Bryson in “Voices of Dissent” , ABC Radio National, “Encounter”, 22 March 2009: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/encounter/voices-of-dissent/3135248 .