Israel wants the world to believe that it is a majority Jewish state with a 20% Arab minority and that the Arab population enjoys a good standard of living and full equal rights. And while this is easy to disprove, it is still part of the mainstream discourse on Israel. It is true that at around two million people, the Palestinian citizens of
Failing to Count the Arabs: the Myth of the “Democratic” Jewish State
A campaign to whitewash Israeli apartheid claims that twenty percent of Israel citizens are Arabs and that they enjoy full equal rights with their Jewish counterparts. This is a claim that is very often repeated by people and needs to be clarified.