Many groups and individuals have decried Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories on moral or legal grounds. The purpose of this white paper is to envision what the values of the halakhic tradition might be if we considered the State of Israel and its occupation through those eyes. Its analysis will also inform to some extent how we would view the actions of a Jewish State if it were a halakhic entity—though, as we shall see, it is difficult to see the current state in those terms.
Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, PhD, served for many years as a board memebr of T’ruah.