In recent years, a growing number of academics and political observers have questioned whether the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be resolved through the traditional two-state framework. They contend that the modern state of Israel, however democratic it may have been at its founding, has ultimately come to institutionalize Jewish dominance over Palestinians. As evidence, they point to Israel’s continued occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, the expansion of Jewish settlements in these areas, and the resulting displacement of some Palestinian residents. The solution, according to these advocates, is not the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel, but rather the replacement of Israel with a single democratic, binational state.

Such a state would likely result in a Palestinian demographic majority through a combination of current population growth trends and proposed right-of-return measures. At the same........

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