EdT,

The question is - what is true democracy?


What basic principles are required to define a state as a democracy?

Is it just elections or is it more than that?

How much more?



The specific question is - Can state 'x' be said to be a true democracy.


You can ask that question of any state.


John,

On your list of Criteria for establishing an Anti-semite from a Non-Anti-Semite, you include the act of questioning whether Israel is a democracy.

To be specific:

"Claiming Israel is not a democratic country."

Now either you accept that this matter is open to debate or you don't. You can't have it both ways.

And you certainly can't say that it is open to question but only on the grounds that that line of questioning only arrives at the conclusion that you agree with.

The point is that there are many grounds upon which one could claim that Israel is not a democracy that have nothing to do with antisemitism so it is a million miles from being a proof of anything of the sort.


Whether Israel is a proper democracy or not is not something I particularly care to discuss, but I reserve my right to question it if I so choose without being labelled by a vigilante anti-semite hunter with his six gun on his hip runnin' them varmints outta town!