Commenting on the rise of right-wing antisemitism in the United States, MSNBC commentator Peter Beinart deemed it appropriate to bring up Israel, accusing the Jewish state of being an “ethnostate.” Beinart’s claim is, of course, wholly inaccurate: Israel is among the most diverse democracies in the world, consistently scoring on par with the US in global studies on political pluralism.
In fact, representatives of Israel’s Arab minority — comprising around 20 percent of the country’s population — played a key role in the most recent coalition, and the Arab vote could once again be decisive in this week’s election.
While Beinart is entitled to his radical views, MSNBC should know better than to spread demonstrably false claims about Israel’s ethnic diversity during a panel on antisemitism.
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