Tagged Pew study of Israelis

Op-Ed: Pew findings not surprising, but also not irreversible
March 15, 2016 / Daniel Sokatch, JTA

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Pew Research Center poll released last week surveying attitudes among Israeli citizens confirms what many of us who work on Israeli issues already knew: Israel is a deeply divided society, first and foremost between its Jewish and Arab citizens, but also among its Jewish sectors. Ethnicity,… Read more »

Op-Ed: Arab terrorism responsible for Pew finding on transfer
March 15, 2016 / Morton Klein, JTA

  PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The recent Pew Research Center study finding that about half of Israeli Jews favor transferring Arabs from Israel reveals the fear, frustration and misery that Israeli Jews feel after being subjected to decades of Arab terrorist attacks that have killed and maimed thousands of innocents.… Read more »

Pew finding on expulsion of Israeli Arabs prompts sharp reactions

Israeli Arabs protesting in Tel Aviv against home demolitions, April 28, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)
March 9, 2016 /

TEL AVIV (JTA) — In a survey that spanned politics, religion and interfaith relations, one statistic stood out: nearly half of Israel’s Jews support expelling the country’s Arabs. The Pew Research Center’s study of Israelis’ attitudes, which had its findings released Tuesday, had asked respondents whether they agreed that… Read more »

Pew: 48 percent of Israeli Jews want Arabs out of country

Palestinian women pass an Israeli police checkpoint in Jerusalem, Oct. 8, 2015. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)
March 9, 2016 / Ben Sales, JTA

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Nearly half of Jewish-Israelis want to expel Arabs from the country. That’s one of several findings from a new survey of Israeli attitudes on religion, politics and Jewish identity conducted by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center. Coming just three years after Pew‘s much-discussed study of… Read more »