Pew Centre survey depicts growing political and religious polarisation,with half favouring ‘expulsion or transfer of Arabs’A major survey of Israeli attitudes conducted by one of the world’s main social research centres depicts a country moving further to the right politically, more polarised on the issue of religion, or with approximately half in favour of “the expulsion or transfer of Arabs”.
Among the most striking findings of the survey,conducted by the highly regarded US Pew Research Centre, was that a slender majority of Israeli Jews “strongly” or “mostly agreed” with the idea that Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel. Israeli Arabs earn up 19% of the country’s population of 8.4 million. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com