Avi Steinberg, an Israeli-born author, announced on Thursday that he had formally renounced his Israeli citizenship.
Justifying his decision in an article for the left-leaning news publication Truthout, Steinberg said that Israeli citizenship had “always been a tool of genocide” that legitimised settler colonialism.
“Israeli citizenship is predicated on the worst kinds of violent crimes we know of, and on a deepening litany of lies intended to whitewash those crimes,” he argued in the op-ed.
You don’t know that any social bridges are being burnt. This seems like a big “meh” to me, which would make total sense. Make a big deal about it in writing, while it doesn’t actually cost you that much. Perfect political action: superficially poignant, but ultimately meaningless.