User:Palestine-info/Links to pages that claim that Israel is undemocratic


 * Green Left Weekly

"If what we see in Israel is indeed democracy, then what does fascism look like? ... That the Jewish nature of the state is inimical to democracy as defined by every dictionary in the world matters not, one supposes."


 * Dissident Voice

"De-facto, then, Israel is not a democracy. One-third of the demos does not enjoy a series of basic rights which make up the pillars of liberal democracies."


 * Israeli Democracy Institute

"The picture emerging from the various indicators shows that Israel is mainly a formal democracy that has not yet acquired the characteristics of a substantive democracy."


 * American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

"Israel is not a democracy in the American sense of the word."


 * Israel Shahak

"the State of Israel is not a democracy due to the application of a Jewish ideology directed against all non - Jews and those Jews who oppose this ideology." (Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, p.3)


 * Dr. Hassan A. El-Najjar, editor of Al-Jazeerah

"Israel is not a democracy. It is the last racist and oppressive regime on Earth."

Dr. Hassan A. El-Najjar, editor of Al-Jazeerah

"Israel is not a democracy. It's a military dictatorship."


 * Media Monitors Network

"Israel is not a democracy; it is an Apartheid Garrison-State, a modern-day Sparta."


 * Paul Grubach, The Revisionist

"Israel is not a democracy in the ADL’s sense of the term." (''Yes, he's a nazi. No, I don't like him.)


 * Lev Grinberg, Imagined Democracy Imagined Peace

"The amazing case of Israeli politics is its success in constructing itself as a democracy despite the absence of recognized concrete boundaries and comprehensive equal citizenship. ... Democracy in Israel is not only imagined, but the crucial point is that it cannot be concretized due to structural and institutional factors."


 * Lev Grinberg

"by any standard Israel is not a democracy."


 * Rabbi Noam Nivenat

"The minority is not obliged to accept decisions that are bad for society. Democracy means the rule of the people and we are not in a democracy because there are citizens who are non-Jews who participate in elections."


 * Activists for the Liberation of Palestine

"The aim of the tour is to break the myth that Israel is a democracy. We are here to tell you that Israel is NOT a democracy"


 * Greg Felton author of Enemies by Design

"Israel is not a democracy; it’s an ethnocentric garrison state."


 * Arjan El Fassed, co-founder of Electronic Intifada

"Israel is not a democracy"


 * MIFTA

"A 'Jewish and democratic state' is a contradiction of the philosophy of democracy."


 * Uri Davis, Israel: An Apartheid State


 * Nelson Mandela

"As to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, there is an additional factor. The so-called 'Palestinian autonomous areas' are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system."


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"Ben Gurion University political geographer Oren Yiftachel has rightly noted that such a form of government is an 'ethnocracy' rather than a democracy."