On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

by Douglas Murray

If Israelis lived in an apartheid system then perhaps even Israelis at a dance party could be seen as colonialist aggressors and any attack, even on them, as “resistance” to this injustice. Again, the claim is based on pure misrepresentation. The State of Israel has equal rights for everyone in the country. The Arab and Druze population of Israel makes up around 20 percent of the country’s population and they have equal health care, housing, and voting rights as anyone else. Even the most cursory look around Israel—even a walk around any Israeli city—would reveal a population that is bewildering in its racial and religious diversity. There are Ethiopian Jews and Israeli Arabs, Arab Christians and Ashkenazi Jews. There are Jews whose ancestors fled Europe, Jews who have been indigenous to the land for generations, and Jews who fled from Arab lands before or after the creation of the State of Israel. These people fled from pogroms and massacres sometimes predating 1948, sometimes coming after it.