I have heard that it is anti semetic to “deny israel has a right to exist”

Which makes me curious. Is it a generally accepted premise either in law or just by people that countries have “rights”?

I think of rights as something people have.

If countries do have rights, is exisiting one of them?

  • like inherently? no absolutely not. at best, groups of people have the right to declare themselves the constituents of a nation-state but then we have to talk about what rights are and whether it’s even a coherent idea outside of the completely arbitrary legal systems we invent.