The Guardian: More than 40% of Israeli Jews adhere to racist views in relation to fellow citizens of the Arabs

A survey dedicated to the attitude of Israeli Jews to the Arab fellow citizens revealed the fact of the widespread spread of racist views: many of them advocate segregation and politics that encouraging the Arabs to leave the country. This survey was conducted by the authoritative Israeli organization Geocartographia for the Center for Combating Racism, founded by scientists - Israeli Arabs writes The Guardian on Friday.

The survey showed that more than two -thirds of Jews in Israel would refuse to live in the same building with the Arabs. Almost half of the Jews does not express the desire to let the Arabs go home, and 41% of respondents would prefer segregation in entertainment institutions.

According to the survey, 40% of Israeli Jews believe that "the state must support the emigration of Arab citizens"; For such a policy, some ultra -right parties campaign on the eve of the elections next week, continues the British newspaper (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

“Racism becomes widespread,” said Bachar Snim, the director of the Center for which this survey was conducted. “When people talk about the transfer or Arabs as a demographic bomb, no one gives votes against such moods. This is an alarming phenomenon. The time comes for the Jewish population, which has experienced on their own experience, wake up and changed its views.”

In turn, the deputy of the Knesset, the Israeli Arab Taleb El-san, said that the results of the survey did not surprise him. “This shows that we are not talking about a few people, but about an alarming phenomenon that puts a large question mark opposite the Zionist movement,” he said, adding that the results of polls that reveal anti -Semitism in other countries are met by an excursion of condemnation. “However, when this happens in their country, they are calm, and that is why it is a double failure: they are racists, who are not trying to fight their own racism,” El -Sana said.

Some of the Israelis explain the hostile attitude to the Arabs not by racism, but by many years of conflict and religious contradictions, notes The Guardian.

But another Arab deputy of the Knesset Ahmed Tibi said that Israeli policy is incurring racism. "In general, it is beneficial in Israel to be a racist, because you do not pay any price for this and you can always refer to security considerations and self -defense mechanism," he said. "The racists have long moved from the street to benches in the government."

The ultra -right parties of Israel, participating in the Israeli elections next week, secured significant support, speaking on the anti -Arab platform, writes The Guardian. So, the Israel Beatenu party advocates a revision of the border in such a way that about 500 thousand Israeli Arabs find themselves in the future of the Palestinian state. This party is expected to receive about 10 out of 120 seats in parliament - this means that political balance can depend on it.

In addition, as the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, the Kadima Party, the favorite in the upcoming parliamentary elections, decided not to put the Arabs on important positions in its electoral list, as it can cost a party of several places in the Knesset, concludes a British edition.