Fairly easily.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Jews and Muslims live under the same legal system with equal citizenship rights. Muslims in Israel are full citizens. They vote in national elections, serve in parliament (the Knesset), hold positions as judges—including on the Supreme Court—and work across all sectors, including as doctors, lawyers, professors, and senior police and military officers. State services are provided in Arabic, and Muslim citizens have full freedom of religion. Mosques operate freely, Islamic courts handle personal status matters, and Muslim religious endowments are managed by the Muslim community.
Muslim citizens of Israel have access to universal healthcare, education, welfare, and social security, just like Jewish citizens. Arab students make up over 20 percent of Israel’s university population. The government has allocated billions in targetedevelopment to close economic gaps, improve infrastructure, and expand access to housing and employment in Arab communities.
NGOs and others work alongside government ministries to promote Jewish-Arab cooperation and integration. i know first-hand, part of my day job as an ID consultant is researching and preparing briefs on this. Mixed cities like Haifa, Acre, and Jaffa host joint schools, hospitals, and coexistence programs. Civil society in Israel is robust, and Muslim citizens participate fully in it.
No Jews live in Gaza. The elected government, Hamas, have a founding charter explicitly calling for the murder of Jews, not just Israelis, and quotes antisemitic text and ideas. Any Jew entering Gaza before this war, whether civilian or not, would face immediate risk of abduction or death. This is not theoretical—it has happened before and remains a standing threat.
Palestinians who murder Jewish civilians are financially rewarded. Terrorists are glorified in Palestinian Authority and Hamas-run media and textbooks. Children are taught that killing Jews is heroic. This is not a distortion—it is documented in school materials and official statements, and confirmed by EU-funded textbook reviews and reports by IMPACT-se, UN agencies, PMW.
Widen the lens, and the contrast becomes even more stark. Of the 22 Arab states, almost none have meaningful Jewish populations today although 80 yrs ago early one million Jews lived in Arab countries across the Middle East and North Africa. Jews in those countries were stripped of citizenship, had their assets seized, and were either expelled or forced to flee under threat. No Arab country has a Jewish member of parliament. No Arab state funds Jewish schools, allows independent Jewish religious courts, or protects freedom of Jewish religious practice in the way Israel protects Muslim practice.
So while critics accuse Israel of being a racist state, the facts tell a very different story. Israel is the only country in the region that has integrated a large Muslim minority into every level of public life, including its judiciary, academia, and political system.
Meanwhile, Gaza is openly antisemitic in its laws, governance, and rhetoric. And the broader Arab world has, with few exceptions, erased its Jewish communities entirely.
One system promotes coexistence under law. The others have either eliminated their Jewish populations or remain openly hostile to their existence. There is no comparison.