"Only Democracy in the Middle East"

Discriminatory Laws in Israel
https://www.adalah.org/en/law/index

Israel has drafted more than 60 laws which discriminate against their Palestinian citizens.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140215-more-than-60-israeli-laws-discriminate-against-palestinians/ #Palestine


Israel's Occupation – Human Rights Violations http://www.passia.org/images/meetings/2015/Material%20for%20the%20Website/Human%20Rights%20Violations%20(2015).pdf

Anti-Democratic Initiatives in Israel
http://www.acri.org.il/en/category/democracy-and-civil-liberties/anti-democratic-legislation/

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel, Marginalization of Israel’s Palestinian Arabs (pg 129)
http://mada-research.org/en/files/2011/09/ebook-english-book.pdf


36% of non-religious Jews want to leave Israel
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170320-36-of-non-religious-jews-want-to-leave-israel/

15% of Jews from former Soviet Union leave Israel due to discrimination
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20160419-15-of-jews-from-former-soviet-union-leave-israel/

The young flee Israel because it is a ‘failure’ and ‘xenophobic theocracy’
http://mondoweiss.net/2013/10/xenophobic-theocracy-columnist#sthash.1kcss78z.dpuf

Israel is a racist country. Take it from me, an Ethiopian Israeli
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.727935?v=33BBBC54A6AFD152B0AAC3FD9D5E21D7




Nearly 1/4 of Israelis live below the poverty line
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Start-Up-Nation-faces-major-poverty-and-hunger-issues-460009

Nearly half of #Israel’s children suffer physical, sexual or emotional abuse, study finds
http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/.premium-1.557668

Report: 1 in 5 children in #Israel suffers sexual abuse, 1 in 3 is poor
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4470826,00.html

UNICEF: #Israel’s child poverty rate surpasses Mexico and Chile
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/UNICEF-report-finds-Israel-has-highest-levels-of-inequality-among-children-451295


#Israel’s legal system complicit in child sex abuse
http://www.redressonline.com/2015/04/israels-legal-system-complicit-in-child-sex-abuse/

'Israel is increasingly becoming a refuge for pedophiles'
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209749#.Vvtct-IrLIU

Israel Not Prosecuting Clients of Child Prostitutes
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.705294

United Nations Slams Israel Over Child Prostitution Epidemic
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151111/1029946754/israel-child-prostitution-sex-crimes.html#ixzz3rO95DxbC

Advocacy group: Israel is a pedophile's paradise
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/advocacy-group-israel-is-a-pedophile-s-paradise-1.262570

Panel hears grim details on child prostitution in #Israel
http://www.haaretz.com/news/panel-hears-grim-details-on-child-prostitution-in-israel-1.113459

Human (sex) trafficking in #Israel rakes in more than USD billion a year
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3062297,00.html

Thousands of slaves in #Israel, global study finds
http://toi.sr/1eB3BuA

USDOS:  2013 Trafficking in Persons Report - #Israel
http://www.refworld.org/docid/51c2f3b424.html

When Hope Ends in Slavery:  Human Trafficking in Israel
http://www.brandeis.edu/investigate/events/2011/ATZUM-HumanTrafficking-Israel.html




The Economist names the only democracy in the Middle East and it isn’t Israel http://hotair.com/archives/2014/07/08/new-rules-the-economists-only-democracy-in-the-arab-world-isnt-israel/

The only democracy in the Middle East? 4.5m people can't vote in the Israeli elections http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/israel-is-supposedly-the-only-democracy-in-the-middle-east-yet-45-million-palestinians-under-its-10113950.html



Israel is not a democracy
https://shar.es/1uOEc8

The "Only Democracy in the Middle East"? Hardly.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-ruebner/the-only-democracy-in-the_b_833379.html

Study: 98% of young Ethiopian Israelis report experiencing racism
http://toi.sr/W1yilj



Israel's democracy myth
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/02/2013210102718996794.html

Israel’s descent into unmasked, right wing extremism: A generation rises to fight occupation, colonialism, apartheid http://www.salon.com/2015/10/22/israels_descent_into_unmasked_right_wing_extremism_a_new_generation_rises_to_fight_occupation_settler_colonialism_apartheid/

Israel’s Fading Democracy
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/israels-fading-democracy.html

Israeli Settlement Enterprise and its Impacts on the Two-State Solution
http://www.arij.org/files/arijadmin/poica/report15.pdf


Poverty in #Jerusalem by Population Group, 2012  (Arab to Jewish poverty rates)
https://twitter.com/BSfromPS/status/660724490620416002