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March 14, 2016

What Israeli Jews Really Think about Their Arab Compatriots

Are Jewish-Arab relations headed for an explosion?

Misleading reports about Israelis’ answers to a recent Pew survey have stated that a majority of Israeli Jews favor the expulsion of their country’s Arab population. After dissecting the problems with both the study itself and the way it has been represented, Evelyn Gordon suggests that many respondents answered “yes” to a question they took to be about the expulsion of particular Arabs under specific circumstances to express, in the words of one public-opinion expert, “alienation and disgust”:

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March 14, 2016

  1. According to a Basic Rule in International Law, the West Bank Is Part of Israel

    Israel’s borders can be defined the same way as Mali’s or Slovakia’s.

  2. What Israeli Jews Really Think about Their Arab Compatriots

    Are Jewish-Arab relations headed for an explosion?

  3. Don’t Let American Judaism Become a Holocaust Cult

    Memory is sacred, but victimhood cannot be the foundation stone of Jewish identity.

  4. A New Novel Tackles Jewish Family and Community—and Prayer

    As Close to Us as Breathing.

  5. Iran’s New Syrian Hizballah

    More loyal to Tehran than to Damascus.