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

by Douglas Murray

show that the Arabs and Druze in Israel, who make up about 20 percent of the country’s population, constitute almost half (46 percent) of recipients of medical licenses; half of the new nurses, male and female (50 percent, as compared with just 9 percent in 2000); and more than half the dentists (53 percent) and pharmacists (57 percent).”8 No black South African under apartheid was allowed any legislative or political role. Yet Khaled Kabub (an Arab Muslim) is a current Israeli Supreme Court justice, and not the first. The nation’s national soccer team includes players of all backgrounds. In November 2024, when Israel played Belgium, Dia Saba, an Arab Muslim, assisted the sole goal of the match, scored for Israel by Yarden Shua—a Jew. Arab Muslim parties sit in the country’s parliament (Knesset), where they have the same voting rights as everyone else. And in 2021 the United Arab List, under its leader Mansour Abbas, formed part of the Naftali Bennett–Yair Lapid coalition government. Yet such facts kept getting buried in a world that seemed to want to see Israel as having some original sin. A sin that made them uniquely undeserving of sympathy.