• Sphere [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Maybe if you only count citizens, but there’s a large oppressed population called Palestinians, maybe you’ve heard of them?

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/jews-now-a-minority-in-israel-and-the-territories-demographer-says/

    > According to Soffer, there are 7.45 million Jews and others along with 7.53 million Arab Israelis and Palestinians living in what he termed the Land of Israel, meaning Israel plus the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

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        1 year ago

        So in other words, one has to exclude significant, heavily populated areas that are being governed by the state of Israel in order to claim that it’s a democracy. It is deeply unclear why one would want to do so, though, given that the same government has given its full endorsement to settlers moving into these same areas, and has given absolutely no indication (in recent decades, at least) of ever intending to vacate these territories.