Poll: Most Israelis oppose intermarriage

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Jews more averse than Arab to intermarriage with people of other religions, poll finds.

By Haaretz | Aug. 22, 2014 | 1:17 AM

Israeli Jews are more opposed to intermarriage than Israeli Arabs, with fully 75 percent of Jews saying they would refuse to marry someone of a different religion, a new poll by Haaretz found.

Among Arabs, only 65 percent said they wouldn’t marry someone of a different religion.

Fully a third of Arabs said that religion wasn’t a factor in choosing a spouse, whereas only one-fifth of Jews said the same. In addition, 60 percent of Jews said they would object in principle to one of their relatives dating a non-Jew, compared to 54 percent of Arabs who said they would object to a relative dating a non-Arab.

The poll, conducted by the Dialog company this week under the supervision of Prof. Camil Fuchs, found that even among secular Jews, opposition to intermarriage was high: Almost two-thirds of secular respondents said they would refuse to marry a non-Jew.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.611928

[oberliner]

2. Would like to see this broken down by gender

Particularly among Muslim respondents.

[Shaktimaan]

3. Misleading headline.

There's a difference between being unwilling to marry outside of your religion yourself, versus "opposing" it in a collective sense.

[faisal akbar]

4. Is

Is this not racism?

[SaltyBro]

5. Disgusting