As this graphic popped up on my news feed today, I'll take the opportunity to expand upon what I generally find distasteful about #hasbara / pro-Israel advocacy: 
1/ The facts trumpeted here are revolutionary only by reference to totalitarian failed Middle Eastern regimes or the world before religion-based discrimination was illegal. While the world at large has moved onto a discourse about minority inclusion, we're boasting about this...
2/ Pro-Israel advocacy is annoying as hell because it's essentially a form of #propaganda (ditto for the other side!). There's something undeniably grating about being constantly subjected to virtue signalling and reminders of said state's superiority to its neighbors.
3/ As with all forms of partisan storytelling, there's much that's *not* said here because it doesn't support the argument. In the case of this poster, the list is long. But it includes the likelihood that this group would run into: institutional racism, discrimination, etc.
4/ In more concrete terms: if this woman *were* to run for office, she may be subjected to the kind of discourse levelled against current Arabs MKs by far-right elements: being called a "terrorist," being invited to "go to Gaza". Etc, etc.
5/ In short: organised pro-Israel advocacy tends to suck and mislead. Organised pro-Palestinian advocacy tends to do likewise. The truth of what this region and conflict is like is a muddy middle-ground that neither side tend to capture in their narrative.
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