We disturbingly have our first member of Congress to publicly support a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. To be abundantly clear, a one-state solution inevitably leads to the gradual genocide of the Jewish people. It’s an unequivocally racist proposal.

Close to half of the world’s Jewish population lives in Israel, the ancestral homeland of the Jews, where they have continued to maintain a presence for the past 3,000 years. The areas debated in the Israel-Palestine conflict were dominated by Christians until 800 years ago, when Muslims came to form the majority of the population. While an estimated few thousand Jews remained in Medieval Israel and under Mamluk then Ottoman rule, the rest spent centuries being expelled in the hundreds of thousands from France and Spain. For better, but mostly for worse, Jews have been simultaneously treated as both a religion and a race, with anti-Semitic animus running rampant, consistently, since the emergence of the Jewish identity.