A Frightening Poll in Haaretz

From Haaretz via The American Errorist comes this report of an opinion poll done by Haifa University which outlines an alarmingly pervasive racism among the Israeli public:

The survey indicates that 63.7 percent of the Jewish respondents said the government should encourage Israeli Arabs to emigrate. Almost half of the Jewish respondents - 48.6 percent - said the treatment that Arabs in Israel receive from the government is too sympathetic.

More than half - 55.3 percent - think Israeli Arabs endanger the state's security and 45.3 percent support depriving Israeli Arabs of the right to vote and to be elected. About one-quarter of the Jewish respondents said they would consider voting for a party like the outlawed Kach, if such a party were contending in the next elections.

Almost half of survey respondents are in favor of depriving citizens of their right to vote and hold office? Thus far, the Israeli supreme court has done a pretty good job of protecting minorities from the "tyranny of the majority," but a poll finding like this is pretty shocking.