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39 percent of Israelis don't want Arab neighbors

Blaming situation on education
system and religious leaders,
36 percent of Israeli Jews think
State is more racist than it
was 10 years ago,
poll for anti-racism day shows

Yifat Glick Published:
03.21.07, 14:12 / Israel News

Thirty-nine percent of Israeli Jews do not want Arab neighbors, revealed a
poll conducted by the Israel
Religious Action Center for
Anti-Racism Day.

The poll,
composed of the responses of
a sample of 502 adult Israeli Jews, showed that while most Israelis would
not mind hiring an Arab for a job,
with only 28 percent completely
objecting to it,

a significant percent of 38
would not be willing to work
for an Arab employer.


Regarding an Arab minister in the Knesset, 31 percent of the respondents
strongly objected while 21 percent answered positively.



The poll also showed that Israelis
would not even consider having an
Arab president,

as 83 percent completely objected and only 13 percent of the respondents
said they would consider this possibility.


According to the poll, 37 percent
of Israelis think that Ethiopian
immigrants are the most discriminated against, followed by Arabs,
who 21 percent of the respondents
said suffered the most.

Russian immigrants came
in third with 6 percent.


Discrimination against labor
immigrants was pushed to the
bottom of the list according
to the poll.

'A disgrace to the Jewish people'

In response to the question,

"Is the State of Israel more
racist now that it was one decade ago?"

37 percent of the respondents said yes.

Seventy-two percent of the respondents blamed the situation on the
education system which does not do enough to
eradicate racist prejudices.

The respondents were also asked to
give their opinion on the level of
Israel's religious leaders'
contribution to racism.

Thirty-six percent said that rabbis increased racism, while 10 percent
said that they actually help reduce it.

During the week the Reform community will host religious leaders, including
Christians and Muslims, to mark the joint struggle against racism.

Anat Hoffman of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism said on
Tuesday that "displays of racism,
and especially those done in the
name of Judaism, disgrace the Jewish people."

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