Certain ideas about equality are woven into the fabric of the liberal state, and quite inseparable from it: first and foremost, equality before the law.
On the contrary, they insist, it is those who do not accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state who undermine the principle of equality, by denying to the Jews the right of self-determination they extend to others.
It has been called both a "resounding success" by Steve Goldstein, head of the gay-rights group Garden StateEquality, and a "bureaucratic nightmare" by James O'Neill, the interim school superintendent of the township of Roxbury.