Palestine

They have a point when the question is, as it was, religions and not religious people. Their holy texts both present particular genocides as good things and include directions to commit genocide against apostates. Whatever we might say of the historic position of Jews as social minorities, the content of the Tenakh, etc. is well-suited to justifying an ethnostate.

I do think they are generalizing to strongly in that regard, since the Abrahamic religions are all especially bad in this regard compared to the others that have made it to the modern day, with the possible exception of Hinduism (I don't know enough about it). Edit: I think Islam is the least bad of the three, but it's also the one I'm the least familiar with.

I'm not really interested in arguing for some particular prescription based on this, I just don't think we should close our eyes to obvious truths in the name of pushing some silly idea about religion being benign as a rule. I'm also not saying the Crusades are Christ's fault or any of that bullshit (nor that the Nakba is the fault of Moses, to be on topic), I'm just saying that when a text says "The appropriate response to someone preaching heresy in a town is to slaughter the villagers, raze the buildings, and salt the earth," that's what it says.

Edit 2: I probably didn't do enough to distinguish religion as a historical force from religion as a set of doctrines, but it should be obvious that I'm talking about the latter. Again, Christ did not order the Crusades.

Edit 3: Obviously, even without the convenient doctrine, Israel would be Israel, I'm merely saying the doctrine is convenient.