Sphere [he/him, they/them]

Cool, thanks for taking the time to explain all that to me!

What is ꙮ and how does one pronounce it out loud? Genuinely asking, to be clear, I’ve just never seen that before.

So in other words, one has to exclude significant, heavily populated areas that are being governed by the state of Israel in order to claim that it’s a democracy. It is deeply unclear why one would want to do so, though, given that the same government has given its full endorsement to settlers moving into these same areas, and has given absolutely no indication (in recent decades, at least) of ever intending to vacate these territories.

Maybe if you only count citizens, but there’s a large oppressed population called Palestinians, maybe you’ve heard of them?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/jews-now-a-minority-in-israel-and-the-territories-demographer-says/

According to Soffer, there are 7.45 million Jews and others along with 7.53 million Arab Israelis and Palestinians living in what he termed the Land of Israel, meaning Israel plus the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Yep, very clear demonstration of the fact that Israel is an apartheid state, given that it is indeed run by Jewish people despite the fact that Jewish people are a minority of the people living there.

It’s freeze-peach