Poll Shows Youth Leans Rightward

[Donald Ian Rankin]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136471

(IsraelNN.com) Fifty-six percent of Jewish youths believe that Arabs should not be elected to the Knesset, a poll has found.

The poll was conducted by Maagar Mochot among youths aged 15 to 18 and presented at a conference in Tel Aviv University.

Eighty-two percent of the religious youths polled said Arabs should not enjoy rights that are identical to Jews', while among the secular youths, less than half that proportion – 39% – subscribed to this view. All together, 49.5% of the Jewish youths said that Arab citizens of Israel should not receive identical rights as Jews.

The poll showed the youths going to opposite extremes on matters related to Judea and Samaria. While 48% said they would refuse orders to evict Jews from communities in Judea and Samaria – a position usually associated with nationalist views, 31% declared they would refuse to serve in Judea and Samaria at all – a position that usually corresponds to a leftist slant.

Eighty one percent of religious youths said they would refuse orders to evict Jews, compared to 36% of the secular youths.

Seventy-eight percent of the Jewish youths said that the slogan “death to the Arabs” was racist and not legitimate, but 50% of religious youths said it was legitimate.

Arab members of Knesset from non-Zionist parties routinely vilify and demean the State of Israel and its government, travel abroad to enemy states without permission, incite Arabs to violence and participate in such violence themselves.



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This is from Arutz Sheva - hardly a reliable source - but I think the poll it reports is probably reliable; there's another article on it already up on DU but it doesn't give all the same details, and I think the spin this one puts on it is interesting and revealing. In particular, note the second to last sentence.

[bowens43]

1. more evidence

that believing in deities is a mental illness....

[LeftishBrit]

2. Not 'believing in deities' as such...

but people who impose one's religion onto politics, and who place their God above humanity, are a danger - whatever their religion.

The RW settlers and related religious groups are a bad influence on Israeli society.

[pscot]

3. Your headline was a tad misleading

n/t

[LeftishBrit]

5. It was the original headline so Donald couldn't have changed it without breaking the rules

One thing that is really startling is that ReligiousRightSettlersNews (I will not call it Israel National News as there is nothing national about it) is reporting what is really a terrible indictment of the religious-right viewpoints and the way they bring up their kids - and yet seem to think it's all perfectly OK.

[Jefferson23]

4. It's not surprising the views of the religious youth, it is absolutely

disheartening imo, that 49.5% of the Jewish youths said that Arabs citizens of Israel should not receive identical rights as Jews.