Religious Prejudice Alive and Well in Israel, Unfortunately
Filed under: Anti-Haredi Prejudice, Anti-Religious Prejudice, Israel
Well, well, well.
As if anyone was surprised. A new study, commissioned by the religious-secular coexistence organization Tzav Piyus which seeks to increase religious-secular dialogue in Israel, just released the results of a new study today to Israeli daily Ma'ariv's NRG.co.il (link is in Hebrew). The study found, among other things:
- 90% of Charedi people would buy a car from a secular or traditional person, 42% of secular people responded that they would not buy a car from a Charedi person;
- 62.3% of Charedi people would live in a place which was majority secular; 57.7% of secular people said they "would not" do the converse;
- 50.2% of secular respondents said that the statement "Charedim are oppressing the country" was true; when asked a similar extreme question, "Are secular Jews only half-Jews?" only 6.8% of Charedim said it was true (granted, this is a biased question)


