There are black French and Muslim French.
Yes, there are some Arab Israelis but the vast majority of Arabs under Israeli governance would never be suffered to assimilate, specifically because it would change the ethnic character of the state.
Yes, there are some Arab Israelis but the vast majority of Arabs under Israeli governance would never be suffered to assimilate, specifically because it would change the ethnic character of the state.
That is clear from the considerable number of Mizrahi Israelis and Ethiopian Israelis.
Israel is an ethnostate apartheid system on that conflated definition. After all, religion is almost as hereditary as race.
I guess I don't see the distinction as all that important? Aside from the fact that it would be an all-time troll if 2 million people in Gaza declared that they're Jewish now and applied for aliyah.