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Survey: Most Israeli Jews would support apartheid
regime in Israel
Survey, conducted by Dialog on the eve of Rosh
Hashanah, exposes anti-Arab, ultra-nationalist views espoused by a majority of
Israeli Jews.
By Gideon Levy
| Oct.23,
2012 | 1:32 AM |
Most of the Jewish public in Israel supports the
establishment of an apartheid regime in Israel if it formallhy annexes the West
Bank.
A majority also explicitly favors discrimination
against the state's Arab citizens, a survey shows.
The survey, conducted by Dialog on the eve of
Rosh Hashanah, exposes anti-Arab, ultra-nationalist views espoused by a
majority of Israeli Jews. The survey was commissioned by the New Israel Fund's
Yisraela Goldblum Fund and is based on a sample of 503 interviewees.
The questions were written by a group of
academia-based peace and civil rights activists. Dialog is headed by Tel Aviv
University Prof. Camil Fuchs.
The majority of the Jewish public, 59 percent,
wants preference for Jews over Arabs in admission to jobs in government
ministries. Almost half the Jews, 49 percent, want the state to treat Jewish
citizens better than Arab ones; 42 percent don't want to live in the same
building with Arabs and 42 percent don't want their children in the same class
with Arab children.
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