Different Strokes

Israeli Arab figures like Azmi Bishara – a Member of Israel’s Parliament – dismiss those concerns and resent what he calls the demographic “obsession” of the Israeli establishment. “What you have here are people who are the original indigenous inhabitants in this country, and are relentlessly counted and counted every year,” he says. “If you counted the blacks in United States this way and called it a ‘demographic problem’ that would be racism.