Comment and Opinion
Haaretz: ‘Apartheid’ poll: Errors that traveled round the world, by Shany Mor
“Last week a news article in Haaretz – like Mark Twain’s proverbial lie – traveled halfway round the world. Splashed across the top of its front page in the Hebrew print edition was the provocative headline ‘A majority of Israelis support apartheid policies in Israel’.
The English online version, doomed to be permanently hyperlinked in every anti-Israel blog for at least the next five years, ran under the equally risible headline ‘Survey: Most Israeli Jews would support apartheid regime in Israel,’ [this headline has now been corrected to “Most Israeli Jews wouldn’t give Palestinians vote if West Bank was annexed”]. Gideon Levy’s poll analysis encapsulates the intention and effect of the poll succinctly: ‘Nice to make your acquaintance, we’re racist and pro-apartheid. The poll … proved what we always knew.’”