In Pew’s survey, 48 per cent of Jewish respondents said Arabs should be removed from Israel, while a similar share disagreed with the statement.
Source/Credit: The Independent UK
By Lizzie Dearden | March 8, 2016
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called the findings a 'wake-up call for Israeli society'
Almost half of Jewish Israelis believe Arabs should be "expelled or transferred" from Israel, a survey has found.
A study carried out by the Pew Research Centre found that around one in five adults questioned “strongly agreed” with the controversial statement, which amounts to ethnic cleansing under some definitions.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica describes the act as “attempting to create ethnically homogeneous geographic areas through the deportation or forcible displacement of persons belonging to particular ethnic group”, while a United Nations report in 1993 additionally specified the use of “force or intimidation”.
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