Britain's advertising watchdog banned an Israeli government tourism advert for suggesting that the Old City of Jerusalem was part of Israel on Wednesday.

Tl:dr Israel is not an "ethnic state". The fact that citizenship is available to and in fact currently held by all reaces and creeds demonstrates this unequivocally. It is just fact.

Israel calls itself the Jewish State. It has a big fucking Jewish star on its flag

That doesn't address my factual point. If Arabs (Muslim and other faiths as well and of course many other races neither Arab or Jewish) are fully participating citizens in the Israeli state then claiming that it is a Jewish states is just factually incorrect. You realize there are Arabs in it's legislature, right?

Also it should be pointed out that "native" Jews are no more or less Arab than Palestinians. Both are Semitic.

It demolishes Arab homes in the Palestinian territories to create homes for Jewish settlers.

A territorial dispute. Such disputes exist independent of racial issues.

I agree that the optimal solution would be for there to be a binational or non-ethnic state that encompasses both Palestinian Arabs and Jews, but we dont live in that world.

Israel DOES THIS. Look, just stop and go research the subject. You have your facts wrong. Arabs and all other races are welcome in Israel and enjoy ALL the rights and privileges of citizens. Because they are citizens and identical in their participation in the country to Jews of any stripe. That is the fact of the matter and conclusively demonstrates that Israel is a non-ethnic state.

We have to make these sorts of distinctions in order to divide territiories between ethnic states.

WHAT?!? What find of shit is that? We don't need to have ethnic states and we kind of don't. The only ethnic states around are the messes in former Yugoslavia and such and they only serve to demonstrate how stupid and destructive the concept is. Albanian Serbia becomes Kosovo, an impossible state being run and financed by international bodies with no exit strategy... that's the kind of shit you get when you pretend ethnic territories exist.

It is impossible to make distinctions in the ethnicity of land. Any attempt to do so creates conflict and the conflict NEVER ends as long as ethnicity is made an issue. Mature functioning nations make no ethnic claims whatsoever and we should in no way accept any state that does.

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