Does anyone else think that much of the anti-Israel position is backwards, hypocritical, and frankly just bizarre?
I have found that a lot of the things people falsely accuse Israel of doing really are the reality in many Muslim countries, to the point that the accusations would be laughable if they weren’t just sad. For example, here are some of the accusations I’ve heard, contrasted with just a fraction of the reality in the rest of the Middle East:
“Apartheid state” Every citizen of Israel has equal rights
Women and religious minorities don’t have equal rights in much of the Muslim world, non-Muslims can’t even travel to Mecca
“Ethnic cleansing” Palestinian population is rising
Approximately 850,000 ethnic Jews exiled from Arab countries, religious minorities largely eradicated from the Muslim world (Assyrians, Yazidis, Druze, Amazigh etc)
“Jewish supremacy” There is literally religious freedom in Israel. Point blank. Lol. And no forced conversions or Jewish proselytizing
In just Saudi Arabia alone (which is somehow considered a more progressive Arab country), Muslim women have to marry Muslim men, public display of non-Muslim religious symbols is illegal, conversion from Islam to another religion is punishable by death
“A country of pedophiles” obviously there is pedophilia in every country but it’s not more prominent in Israel than anywhere else. Btw it is actually reported, while it is not reported in other middle eastern countries which can make it seem more prominent
iraq trying to lower the legal age of consent to 9, astronomical levels of child marriage in Gaza
“Fascist state” It is by definition a democracy and minorities are represented in the government
the IRGC is quite literally a religious authoritarian regime
“Colonialist/imperialist” early Zionists bought the land legally from the Ottoman Empire, and the areas that weren’t purchased were taken during the Arab-Israeli war, a defensive civil war which was not unusual for geopolitics in the 1940s, Zionists were not from a “colony” and Jews have historic ties to the land
google the Arab conquest if you want to see imperialism
“Israel harvests organs of Palestinians” no proof (al Jazeera and Middle East monitor are not proof)
egypt has one of the highest rates of illegal organ trafficking in the world
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Is every accusation a confession?? Are they just ignorant? Can somebody explain the cognitive dissonance going on here?