"It is a lie, and implicitly defamatory (a dissolver of Israel is an anti-Zionist is an anti-semite, etc...). From Dershowitz one expects no better. But thanks to Leon [Wieseltier] it is the received reading of my text. What I actually said was that Israel cannot remain an exclusively Jewish state while aspiring to be a democracy and must, if it is to survive, become the state of all its citizens."