FACT CHECK · ISRAEL FACTS
Claim: 'Others have their states, why not the Jews?'
TRUETHE ANSWER
Fair question. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has 57 member states, 48 of them Muslim-majority. Israel is the one Jewish-majority state, about the size of New Jersey (22,070 km2, World Bank).
SOURCE
OIC membership (Wikipedia); World Bank surface area 2023 (Israel 22,070 km2)
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