The missing link : Palestine and the west – implications for teaching democracy

Abstract

Major Western governments’ support for the Israeli state is rarely if ever discussed in political studies courses as an important influence on the current state of democracy in Western countries. This ensures that a crucial feature of democracy’s decline is missed. Governments’ determination to protect the Israeli state from opposition has become a significant constraint on democracy in major Western states. Until this factor is included in democratic studies courses, they will offer only a partial view of reality