Israel isn’t perfect, and it has gone much farther right than a lot of reasonable people are comfortable with, especially Jews, but let’s keep things in a healthy perspective!

One just has to look at any discussion on social media that involves Israel to see how many anti-Israel fanatics are out there. True, social media by its design attracts extremists, so this may not fully represent society, but the numbers are too large to be ignored. This is also confirmed by growing antisemitism around the world and louder demonization of Israel.

These widespread denunciations of Israel, however, are not supported by facts. Not even close.

Even accepting much of the criticism against Israel, Israel’s record is still phenomenally better than the record of most countries in the world. Considering that Israel faces some of the........

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