Rep. Ben McAdams spoke recently at the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City. He responded to a question about his support of legislation condemning the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement pressuring Israel for its human rights violations against Palestinians.
McAdams condemned this nonviolent, pro-human rights movement and claimed that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
Israel most certainly is not a democracy for the non-Jewish population both in Israel (treated as second-class citizens) and the neighboring Palestinian territories militarily occupied by Israel for over half a century. Israel is a democracy as much as South Africa was during the apartheid regime.