West Bank settlers
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Survey: Leftists prefer Palestinians to settlers
While most Israeli Jews rank Palestinians first on their hostility scale, left-wing Israelis hate settlers more, new survey reveals
Israelis who support left-wing parties are more hostile toward Jewish settlers than they are toward the Palestinians, a new survey reported by Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth on Monday revealed.
The survey, which was conducted by Prof. Dalia Mor of The College of Management in Rishon Letzion, aimed at examining the attitudes of 500 Jewish respondents toward the different sectors in Israeli society: Ashkenazi Jews, Sepharadic Jews, secular Jews, settlers, ultra-orthodox Jews, rightists, leftists, Israeli-Arabs, Palestinians, new immigrants, settlers and foreign workers.
The survey revealed that the public most hated by the Jewish population are the Palestinians, followed by the settlers.
However, with respondents who defined themselves left-wing supporters, hostility toward the settlers ranked higher (67 percent), than hostility toward the Palestinians (55 percent).
Haredi Jews ranked third on the list, while among religious and right-wing respondents, the spot was reserved for Israeli leftists.
Sepharadic Jews, however, ranked both Arabs and settlers in third place.
