“The same goes for followers of Osama Bin Laden – how can this country make a serious claim to diversity without such people in the legislature?”
Jerusalem, March 1 – Social activists decried the composition of Israel’s legislature today, calling the lack of Nazis, ISIS members, and other marginalized groups a stain on the body’s ostensible democratic character.
The Broad Union of Citizens for Honest Engagement with National Wokeness and Acceptance of Legislative Diversity (BUCHENWALD) demonstrated across from the Knesset this morning to condemn the parliament’s failure to represent all populations, and to demand that it institute an allocation system whereby every identity group receives a seat in the plenum.
A dozen BUCHENWALD activists pointed to the absence of Nazis and Islamic terrorists, as well as of militant vegans, Heaven’s Gate death cult members, convicted murderer-rapists, and numerous other demographics that the group contends are denied participation in the democratic process because they have no one to represent them.
A BUCHENWALD spokeswoman who identified herself as a transsexual queer juggler cancer survivor, but declined to give her name because it would not reflect her identity, explained to reporters that for a country that claims to be democratic and to offer equal opportunity to all citizens to vote and run for office, Israel scores poorly. “Only a tiny fraction of identities are represented in the Knesset,” she asserted. “If Israel were truly democratic, its parliament would make sure that its composition accurately reflects the diversity of the polity. But nowhere do I see in its 120 members any former SS members, who have never enjoyed representation in Israel. The same goes for followers of Osama Bin Laden – how can this country make a serious claim to diversity without such people in the legislature? It’s laughable.”
Another demonstrator, who described him/her/itself as “transcending any specific gender identity, or any identity at all, but in solidarity with the oppressed and marginalized who exercise their freedom to choose, unless that choice displeases my sensibilities,” noted that while several MKs defend the terrorist organization Hamas and have made statements that justify the murder of Jews, their presence in the legislature is a pale imitation of what authentic Hamas representation would involve.
“You have who knows how many citizens who also support Hamas, but they’re not free to vote for the group,” he/she/it charged. “Besides, what kind of Apartheid regime doesn’t let non-citizens vote and run for office? What kind of discrimination is that?”
He/she/it added that Kach, the outlawed party of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, should remain banned because of its racist ideology.
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