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The Washington Post has published “A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries,” and it lives up to its billing, it’s fascinating. Arab and Muslim countries are revealed to be intolerant, and Israel is out of the picture!
The Washington Post’s findings are based on an academic study of 65 countries. Here’s the Post graphic illustrating national responses to the following issue:
“Share that answered, ‘People of another race’ when asked to pick from groups of people they would not want as a neighbor.”
The United States scores under 5 percent. Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Algeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Balkans, France and Turkey all score in the 20s and 30s.
There is ample evidence that Israelis would register on this scale. Nearly half of Israeli Jews oppose having Arab neighbors, according to an Israeli news site.
But Israel is not counted in this map. Nor is Palestine, for that matter. Our guide to racism at the Washington Post, Max Fisher writes:
Here’s what the data show:
• Anglo and Latin countries most tolerant. People in the survey were most likely to embrace a racially diverse neighbor in the United Kingdom and its Anglo former colonies (the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and in Latin America…
• The Middle East not so tolerant. Immigration is also a big issue in this region, particularly in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which often absorb economic migrants from poorer neighbors.
The map is based on a Swedish study about whether economic freedom makes societies more tolerant. And though Fisher raises an eyebrow over the fact that Pakistan scored well on tolerance, he has not a word to say about Israel.
Maybe Israel was left out because it is a tiny country.
For some people, though, little Israel casts a giant, terrifying shadow.
Races?! There is the Human race. Nothing else.
Quite funny that Iran is light-red, a state with multiple ethnicities and have embraced millions of iraqi and afghan refugees from western wars far more tolerant obviously than Israel that is a state based for jews. But sure Israel is apparently more tolerant…right.
Israel is not listed because it is not a racist nation. It is, in fact, the most tolerant nation in the region. Muslims living in Israel enjoy more freedom than those living in most Arab countries.
Palestine is not listed because it doesn’t exist outside the imagination of self hating pseudo intellectuals like yourself.
I just had a look at the map. Germany is between 5 and 10%. The USA is between 0 and 5%. Honestly, I find it hard to believe that US citizens are more racially tolerant than Germans. Also, France is between 20 and 30%. That’s even higher than Hungary or Russia. This can’t be true!
Survey: Why does Israel need to be defined as the Jewish state?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p0JaqYUtPc
From the 2012 Israeli Democracy Index:
“The most common preference among the Jewish public (41.9%) is for the dual definition of Israel as a “Jewish and democratic” state. A total of 34.3% ascribe greater importance to the Jewish component, while only 21.8% favor the democratic one.
In categorizing the areas of friction in Israeli society, the tension between Jews and Arabs ranks as the most severe, followed (in descending order) by the tension between religious and secular, rich and poor, right and left (in terms of views on politics and security), and Mizrahim and Ashkenazim.
The sense of feeling part of the state and its problems differs greatly between Jewish and Arab respondents (72.9% and 27.7%, respectively).
A majority of the Jewish respondents (58.3%) feel that Israel’s Arab citizens are not discriminated against, while a majority of the Arab respondents (74.9%) hold that they are subject to discrimination.
A majority of the Jewish sample (89.1%) are proud to be Israeli. Among the Arab respondents, the sense of pride is lower, representing a minority view (44.5%).”
94.2% of Jewish Israelis say that they trust the army (IDF).
http://en.idi.org.il/media/1365787/Index%202012%20key%20findings%20-%20Eng.pdf
See the pages 124 and 125 for religious and ethnic tensions in Israel compared to other countries:
http://en.idi.org.il/media/1365574/Index2012%20-%20Eng.pdf
(The higher the score, the less the tension.)
The Washington Post is a worthless rag. Who cares what they write?