Hebrew University
Special Isracampus Report
Hebrew University - Anti-Israel "Survey" Organized and Sponsored by
Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) Claiming that Most
Israeli Jews favor Apartheid
Amiram Goldblum runs a small foundation that
was set up in memory of his late wife, Yisraela Goldblum, who was a
senior official in the Far-Leftist New Israel Fund. The Yisraela
Goldblum Fund is operated in conjunction with the New Israel Fund.
The fund makes grants to causes supported by the Left (see for
example
http://choosingtosee.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/coffee-books-and-discussions-yafa-cafe-sets-the-stage-for-co-existence/),
but recently claims to have conducted a survey of attitudes in
Israel. The story appears in English here:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/survey-most-israeli-jews-would-support-apartheid-regime-in-israel.premium-1.471644
The results of this supposed survey are
reported in the column by anti-Israel extremist Gideon Levy in
Haaretz.
Among the "findings" of the "survey" are these:
The survey indicates
that a third to half of Jewish Israelis want to live in a state that
practices formal, open discrimination against its Arab citizens. An
even larger majority wants to live in an apartheid state if Israel
annexes the territories.
The survey conductors
say perhaps the term "apartheid" was not clear enough to some
interviewees. However, the interviewees did not object strongly to
describing Israel's character as "apartheid" already today, without
annexing the territories. Only 31 percent objected to calling Israel
an "apartheid state" and said "there's no apartheid at all."
In contrast, 39
percent believe apartheid is practiced "in a few fields"; 19 percent
believe "there's apartheid in many fields" and 11 percent do not
know.
The "Russians," as
the survey calls them, display the most objection to classifying
their new country as an apartheid state. A third of them - 35
percent - believe Israel practices no apartheid at all, compared to
28 percent of the secular and ultra-Orthodox communities, 27 percent
of the religious and 30 percent of the observant Jews who hold that
view. Altogether, 58 percent of all the groups believe Israel
practices apartheid "in a few fields" or "in many fields," while 11
percent don't know.
The "findings" of the "survey" have been
challenged here:
http://honestreporting.com/haaretz-creates-non-existent-apartheid-state/2/
and the New Israel Fund itself has announced it does NOT stand
behind the "findings" in the "survey" (see
http://www.nif.org.il/news/2012/10/23/513).
The "survey" is already being featured on
dozens of Jihadist and anti-Semitic web sites, such as
http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/rumors_conspiracy_theories_urban_legends_hoaxes/
The press release by the Goldblum Fund
announcing the "findings" of the "survey" appears here in English:
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Poll-on-Apartheid-in-Jewish-Population.doc
and in Hebrew here:
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Poll-results-1.pdf
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