As Israel continues its apartheid policies in the occupied territories, the raw, unvarnished truth about Israeli society is revealed:
A Haifa University survey investigating Arabs and Jews’ views on one another reveals disturbing results.
The poll showed that 75 percent of Jewish students believe that Arabs are uneducated people, are uncivilized and are unclean.
On the other hand 25 percent of the Arab youth believe that Jews are the uneducated ones, while 57 percent of the Arab’s believe Jews are unclean.
Over a third of the Jewish students taking part in the survey confirmed that they are afraid of Arabs.
The poll was conducted by Dr. Haggai Kupermintz, Dr. Yigal Rosen and Harbi Hasaisi of Haifa University’s Center for Research on Peace Education.
The data was presented at a bi-lingual conference held in Haifa. The study, titled “Perception of ‘the Other’ amongst Jewish and Arab Youth in Israel” included 1,600 students studying in 22 high schools around the country.
“We have found a serious expression of stereotypical thinking on the Jewish students’ part regarding the Arab youth,” said Dr. Kupermintz, who pointed out that 69 percent of the Jewish students think that Arabs are not smart.
These results should come as no surprise. Last year we discovered that the majority of Israeli didn’t want Arabs as neighbours. Decades of conflict have left the Israeli population largely ignorant of their Arab neighbours and virulently racist towards them.
On a related topic, an editorial in The Economist this week urges:
That may be true in the US and Europe, but surely not in Australia? Can it?
When are Israel’s supporters going to figure out that accepting Israel’s mistakes is a sign of maturity and responsibility and doesn’t have to mean a threat to Israel?
I think that the problem with admitting to mistakes during war time is that the parties consider each other as combatants. Within this context, mistakes are understood as concessions and symbolic gestures such as saying “sorry” are viewed (by both parties) as expression of various degrees of surrender. Saying “sorry” is meaningless when lives are lost in the mistakes. An apology is never enough during war, as it implies that some (if not all) of the deaths could have been avoided. But most importantly, saying sorry in this context, also requires people to consider wether further violence is justifiable. How can a society sustain a mindset of justifying deadly violence, without prejudice? If we asked people to think of each other as equals, then we ask them to admit that the violence is about crude material realities. Not about high ideals and pure religious principles. Just about money, land, food and water. Killing over that alone sounds… well kind of BAD.
After watching the ABC 7 30 Report tonight on Sheik Hilali’s latest efforts am sure that this nation is not in a position to criticise the problems others have when it is as bad itself.
The show was tolerable until the female reporter hysterically but deliberately misrepresented Hilali’s comments about women presented as “meat” as meaning he “justified” rape. He was actually making an observation about the commodification of humans in the modernist world. In this case sexualised women and children in western society, as most REAL feminists have been pointing out for decades.
But, because the ABC is now a satellite of the Tories, the lackeys are boostering wedge politics, as they did earlier this year over Aborigines, rather than challenging this odious practice as they once did.
The thing is, it would be sad if people focussed only on the errors of Israelis.
They are unde the same pressure from disinformation factories and wedge-practising politicians as every where else. It comes off a common formula developed by the likes of Murdoch and the US right-wing think-tanks and is employed world wide by local satraps.
Let us hope that Jews in Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia are not victimised in return! ROFLMAO.
>>> Let us hope that Jews in Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia are not victimised in return!
Absolutely. And let’s hope they are not treated in any way like the Palestinian Arabs are in the occupied territories.