An Israeli mother posts on her Facebook page a photo of Muslim-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli healthcare professionals dancing together at a Hadassah Hospital staff function and writes the caption, “
How dare anyone call my country an apartheid state? If Jews are so horrible to Muslims, why do they work here, send their children to Israeli schools and dance with us? These Muslims are happy and thriving in Israel.”
Indeed, a new poll by the Jewish People Policy Institute provides proof that most non-Jewish Israelis
identify with Israel—not the Palestinians—and are content living there. Here are some facts:
• A massive majority—85%—of non-Jews in Israel feel
comfortable being themselves in Israel
• Fully 23% of non-Jews in Israel identify as
Israeli (up from 5% in 2019), and 51% identify as
Arab Israeli (up from 48% last year)—that’s 74% who have a positive Israeli identity.
• A paltry 7% of non-Jews in Israel identify as
Palestinian —down from 18% just last year.
• Some 91% of non-Jews
disagree that to be a “real Israeli,” you must be Jewish
If Arab Israelis are increasingly assuming an Israeli identity, how can proponents of BDS
accuse Israel of being an apartheid state?
First, the Israel haters
don’t say that the Arab Israelis are second-class citizens—because that’s indisputably false.
Rather, it’s because, strangely, instead of supporting the right (and responsibility) of the Palestinian people to determine their own destiny, the BDS crowd
holds Israel responsible for Palestinian destiny.
(full article online)
What apartheid? Israeli Arabs reject Palestinian identity—and overwhelmingly identify as Israelis An Israeli mother posts on her Facebook page a photo of Muslim-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli healthcare professionals dancing together at a Hadassah Hospital staff function and writes the caption, “How...
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