The Jewish state versus the Jewish diaspora

Many pose universalism or pluralism in Israeli law and culture as being opposed to the Jewish character of a Jewish state. They are mistaken. The biblical regime is rife with law and interests designed to make universal and plural the governance of the nation. 

The soul of the Jewish State is plural in its essence, and to deny such a pluralism and such a universalist bent is to misunderstand the difference between the Jewish state and the Jewish diaspora. In the diaspora the Jews could not afford an easy correspondence with non-Jews. It is those xenophobic, diaspora values that particulaarists seem to wish to import into a definition of the soul of the Jewish state.