Tied with North Korea.

This is the kind of thing that leads people to conclude that there is some kind of international bias against Israel.

Surely, Israel does better with respect to human rights than North Korea.

That's what the "progressives" at the Global Peace Index say, so it must be true.

Level 1: Countries under a secure rule of law. People are not imprisoned for their views and torture is rare or exceptional.

Level 2: There is a limited amount of imprisonment for non-violent political activity.However, few persons are affected and torture and beatings are exceptional. Politically-motivated murder is rare.

Level 3: There is extensive political imprisonment, or a recent history of such imprisonment. Execution or other political murders and brutality may be common. Unlimited detention,with or without a trial, for political views is accepted.

Level 4: Civil and political rights violations have expanded to large numbers of the population.Murders, disappearances, and torture are a common part of life. In spite of its generality, on this level political terror affects those who interest themselves in politics or ideas.

Level 5: Terror has expanded to the whole population. The leaders of these societies place no limits on the means or thoroughness with which they pursue personal or ideological goals.

Countries earning a 5 on this scale: Israel, North Korea.
Iran earned a 4.
The US a 3.
Australia a 1.

and no, there is no bias in some international circles against israel, its all in our imagination.........

any progressives here want to stand up and claim that its a joke?...or is going against the "consensus" a no no

From the 2010 report:

"Tunisia’s score improved, with an increasingly stable political scene following the comfortable victory for the president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, and his party, the Rassemblement constitutionnel démocratique (RCD), in the presidential and legislative elections that took place in October 2009."

... with this survey?

Or was he busy attending an SS reunion?

(or whatever literary category people want to call those works)

...from useful idiots, anti-Semites, and politically compromised "ditto" heads?

Just more evidence that anti-Semitism is more prolific than Islamophobia.