Metin Arditi: «The two-state solution is a figment of the imagination».»

According to writer and patron Metin Arditi, author of the essay «The Eleventh Commandment» published in November, the rhetoric of Jerusalem as the «capital of Israel and of all Jews» is contrary to Jewish tradition and creates anti-Semitism. Interview in Geneva.

Its brevity won't change a thing: Metin Arditi's essay, published at the beginning of November in Editions du Cerf's new «Placards & libelles» collection of short writings, is a great book. The Eleventh Commandment. Quand obéir, c'est trahir is an important and courageous work. The Swiss writer, of Sephardic Jewish origin and born in Turkey, offers a reflection on anti-Semitism that goes against the grain of what we've been hearing for some years from the majority of French-speaking Jewish intellectuals. For him, the rhetoric of Jerusalem as the «capital of Israel and of all Jews» is contrary to the