Israel, the un-apartheid state – a comparison with Australia

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190. Bullshit

I've made my position quite clear. I was glad that Hezbollah kicked Israel out of Lebanon in the same way that I was glad that the Red Army kicked the Nazis out of Eastern Europe. That doesn't make me a supporter of Hezbollah or a communist, for that matter.

as the OP successfully argues

Ha ha. And I successfully argue that you eat dog shit for breakfast. You should stop trying to claim the point for yourself, it just makes you look incredibly lame.

And as to apartheid and racism, as the OP successfully argues it's Australia that is FAR worse to its indigenous than Israel.

I normally wouldnt bother with this hasbawanker bullshit, but lets go through and debunk the claims one by one:-

By contrast, only 1.3% of Australia’s current federal Parliament are from religious minorities (one Muslim and two Jews).

Only about 0.6% of Australians are Jews, meaning that Jews are in fact over-represented in parliament by a factor of about 40%. Muslims account for about 2% of the population, meaning that you would statistically expect there to be 2 or 3 Muslim MPs rather than one for parliament to be truly representative. Of course, the OP fudges a bit on the figures, including Arab Christians as minorities in Israel but not in Australia. There are a further two Australian MPs of Arab Christian heritage, including one (Joe Hockey) of Palestinian descent.

16% of Israelis are Arab, but only 10% of MKs are; therefore Arabs are substantially under-represented in the Israeli Knesset.

Judiciary: Israel has a judge from the Arab minority serving on its highest court (Salim Joubran). Sadly, Australia has not had a single High Court judge from a racial or religious minority for over 80 years, since Sir Issac Issacs! • Military: Israel has three Druse generals currently (or recently) serving in its defence forces (Major-General Yusef Mishleb and brigadier-generals Imad Fares and Hasson Hasson). Disturbingly, it appears Australia has not had a single general from a religious or racial minority for over 80 years, since Sir John Monash! The legislature, judiciary and military are the key sources of hard power in any society and the success of racial and religious minorities reaching these corridors of power is a litmus test of the true openness and lack of racism in a society. Australia’s scorecard on this test compares very poorly to Israel’s.

Blatant cherry picking.

Sir Isaac Isaacs was the last Australian High court judge. However, Australia has had Jewish federal court judges since. Australia has also had two Jewish Governors-General (a position equivalent to the President of Israel), Sir Zelman Cowen being the most recent. Again, given that Jews only constitute a very small part of the population in Australia, this compares very well with Israel.

Salma Fiomy-Farij, a hijab-wearing Israeli Muslim Arab, came second in this year’s Israeli Master Chef (the winner was a German convert to Judaism).

In Australia Master Chef has not had a single winner from a religious or racial minority.

Notice the sleight of hand there? I'll point it out for you:-

Salma Fiomy-Farij, a hijab-wearing Israeli Muslim Arab, came second in this year’s Israeli Master Chef (the winner was a German convert to Judaism).

In Australia Master Chef has not had a single winner from a religious or racial minority.

Like Israel, Australia has certainly had Muslim finalists in its own Masterchef series. In fact, the third place-getter in this years series was an Arab Muslim:-