{"id":1906336,"date":"2023-03-29T00:11:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T04:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-pervasive-myths-about-israel-and-why-theyre-wrong\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T00:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T04:13:26","slug":"four-pervasive-myths-about-israel-and-why-theyre-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-pervasive-myths-about-israel-and-why-theyre-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Pervasive Myths About Israel And Why They\u2019re Wrong\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffour-pervasive-myths-about-israel-and-why-theyre-wrong%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1906336&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><span>Although criticism of Israel is common worldwide, some of the most vocal criticisms of the Jewish state come from the far-left. What makes this particularly surprising is that these critics, who claim to stand against colonization and the erasure of indigenous rights, are often leading the fight against a state created by indigenous people who decolonized their land to escape oppression. In recent years, these radical criticisms have become so commonplace that politicians in Congress have echoed them. Here, we dispel four myths about Israel and provide the truth behind each.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Myth #1: Israel is an Apartheid State<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>On May 15th, 2021, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, &#8220;Apartheid states aren&#8217;t democracies.&#8221; The definition of apartheid refers to a system of legalized racial segregation in which one racial group is deprived of political and civil rights. However, in Israel, Israeli Arabs, who make up approximately 20% of the total population, have the same rights and opportunities as their Jewish neighbors, as guaranteed in the State&#8217;s constitution. In fact, 23% of Israeli doctors, 46% of Israeli pharmacists, and 16% of Israeli higher education students in 2016 were Arab. Additionally, numerous Arabs serve in the Knesset and Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Claims of &#8220;Israeli Apartheid&#8221; are often made in reference to Israel&#8217;s treatment of Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. However, Israel is not the governing body in either of these regions except for select areas in the West Bank. The Gaza Strip has been under the control of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among Israel\u2019s numerous critics around the world today, it may come as a surprise that some of the most vocal critics of the Jewish State reside on the far-left of the political spectrum. Those who assert they are \u201callies of the oppressed\u201d and claim to stand against things like \u201ccolonization\u201d and the \u201cerasure of indigenous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1716,"featured_media":1906337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4671,13364,22979,7011,7058],"class_list":["post-1906336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-israel","tag-myths","tag-pervasive","tag-theyre","tag-wrong"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1906337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}