Monday, May 18, 2009

Poll Reveals 40% of Arab Israelis Believe The Holocaust Never Happened


That's Israeli Arabs; care to take a guess what the percentage of non-Israeli Arabs is? "Poll: 40% of Israeli Arabs believe Holocaust never happened," by Fadi Eyadat for Haaretz, May 17:

Some 40.5 percent of Israeli Arabs believe the Holocaust never occurred, according to the results of a University of Haifa poll released Sunday.

The survey shows that Holocaust denial among Israeli Arabs has become more prevalent in recent years. In 2006, 28 percent of Israeli Arabs polled denied that the Holocaust occurred.

The annual poll of Jewish-Arab relations, which was conducted by Professor Sami Samuha, also found that only 41 percent of Israel's Arab minority recognize the country's right to exist as a Jewish and democratic state, as opposed to 65.6 percent in 2003.

Moreover, only 53.7 percent of the Israeli Arab public believe Israel has a right to exist just as an independent country, according to the poll, down from 81.1 percent in 2003....

1 comment:

Epaminondas said...

Just as important is the craven and stupid explanation given in the original article which is that the Israeli arabs don't really deny the holocaust, they are just protesting Israeli policies.

Simply amazing mental mazes to hide from oneself what cannot be hidden