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Survey Most Israeli Jews would support apartheidregime in IsraelSurvey conducted by Dialog on the eve of Rosh Hashanah exposes anti-Arab ultra-nationalist views espoused by a majority of Israeli Jews

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Most of the Jewish public in Israel supports the establishment of an

apartheid regime in Israel if it formally annexes the West Bank

A majority also explicitly favors discrimination against the states 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 Yisraela Goldblum Fund and is

based on a sample of 503 interviewees

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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 dont want to live in the

same building with Arabs and 42 percent dont want

their children in the same class with Arab children

A third of the Jewish public wants a law barring Israeli

Arabs from voting for the Knesset and a large majority

of 69 percent objects to giving 25 million Palestinians

the right to vote if Israel annexes the West Bank

A sweeping 74 percent majority is in favor of separate

roads for Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank A

quarter - 24 percent - believe separate roads are a

good situation and 50 percent believe they are a

necessary situation

Almost half - 47 percent - want part of Israels Arab

population to be transferred to the Palestinian

Authority and 36 percent support transferring some of

the Arab towns from Israel to the PA in exchange for

keeping some of the West Bank settlements

Although the territories have not been annexed most

of the Jewish public (58 percent ) already believes

Israel practices apartheid against Arabs Only 31

percent think such a system is not in force here Over a

third (38 percent ) of the Jewish public wants Israel to

annex the territories with settlements on them while

48 percent object

The survey distinguishes among the various

communities in Israeli society - secular observant

religious ultra-Orthodox and former Soviet

immigrants The ultra-Orthodox in contrast to those

who described themselves as religious or observant

hold the most extreme positions against the

Palestinians An overwhelming majority (83 percent )

of Haredim are in favor of segregated roads and 71

percent are in favor of transfer

The ultra-Orthodox are also the most anti-Arab group

- 70 percent of them support legally barring Israeli

Arabs from voting 82 percent support preferential

treatment from the state toward Jews and 95 percent

are in favor of discrimination against Arabs in

admission to workplaces

The group classifying itself as religious is the second

most anti-Arab New immigrants from former Soviet

states are closer in their views of the Palestinians to

secular Israelis and are far less radical than the

religious and Haredi groups However the number of

people who answered dont know in the Russian

community was higher than in any other

The Russians register the highest rate of satisfaction

with life in Israel (77 percent ) and the secular Israelis

the lowest - only 63 percent On average 69 percent of Israelis are

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satisfied with life in Israel

Secular Israelis appear to be the least racist - 68 percent of them would

not mind having Arab neighbors in their apartment building 73 percent

would not mind Arab students in their childrens class and 50 percent

believe Arabs should not be discriminated against in admission to

workplaces

The survey indicates that a third to half of Jewish Israelis want to live in a

state that practices formal open discrimination against its Arab citizens

An even larger majority wants to live in an apartheid state if Israel

annexes the territories

The survey conductors say perhaps the term apartheid was not clear

enough to some interviewees However the interviewees did not object

strongly to describing Israels character as apartheid already today

without annexing the territories Only 31 percent objected to calling Israel

an apartheid state and said theres no apartheid at all

In contrast 39 percent believe apartheid is practiced in a few fields 19

percent believe theres apartheid in many fields and 11 percent do not

know

The Russians as the survey calls them display the most objection to

classifying their new country as an apartheid state A third of them - 35

percent - believe Israel practices no apartheid at all compared to 28

percent of the secular and ultra-Orthodox communities 27 percent of the

religious and 30 percent of the observant Jews who hold that view

Altogether 58 percent of all the groups believe Israel practices apartheid

in a few fields or in many fields while 11 percent dont know

Finally the interviewees were asked whether a famous American author

[who] is boycotting Israel claiming it practices apartheid should be

boycotted or invited to Israel About half (48 percent ) said she should be

invited to Israel 28 percent suggest no response and only 15 percent call

to boycott her

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