New Poll Shows Secular And Modern Orthodox Voters Want Haredim Out Of The Government

95% of secular Jews displayed an overall disapproval of the haredi community, and a surprising 62% of Modern Orthodox Jews expressed similar views.

Poll:Likud, Israel Beiteinu voters want haredim out of gov’t

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The public will no longer tolerate selling Israel’s future to the haredi parties, Rabbi Uri Regev, director of Hiddush – For Religious Freedom and Equality in Israel, said on Wednesday, in response to a public opinion poll his NGO recently conducted.

The general public thinks the haredi community shows disrespect for and rejects democracy, according to the survey. Fifty-eight percent of the Jewish public supports the establishment of a national unity coalition government that would include Kadima, but not the the haredi Shas or United Torah Judaism parties.

The survey data “demonstrates unequivocally that the haredi parties managed to make themselves an anathema among the general public that supports the rule of law and democracy,” Regev said.

While 95% of secular Jews displayed an overall disapproval of the haredi community, a surprising 62% of modern Orthodox Jews expressed similar views.

“Israelis are no longer willing to accept the sale of Zionism and the future of Israel to the haredi parties through dubious political deals. It is time Prime Minister [Binyamin] Netanyahu heeds the cry of the people and establishes a national unity government capable of bringing about a sorely needed civil revolution,” Regev said.

According to the poll, 83% of the Jewish public considers the struggle by Ashkenazi haredi parents in Emmanuel to have their daughters study separately from Sephardi girls whose families do not follow Ashkenazi haredi practices unjust.

In addition, 75% of the population supports the High Court of Justice’s decision to eliminate income support funding for married yeshiva students from the 2011 state budget, saying the payments are discriminatory because there are no such payments for married secular students.

“The public is telling Netanyahu: You do not have a mandate to continue undermining equality by passing legislation that bypasses court rulings and provides ‘pork barrels’ and preferential grants to yeshiva students,” Regev said.

He continued, “You do not have a mandate to make kosher the despicable racism in education through fictitious compromises. This is the hour of urgency. Israel’s democratic and Zionist character is under assault. Netanyahu has to tell the haredi parties: Enough!”

The poll reported that 83% of Likud voters and 100% of Israel Beiteinu voters condemned the Emmanuel struggle as anti-democratic, and 73% of Likud voters and 88% of Israel Beiteinu voters supported the court’s decision to halt the income support for married yeshiva students.

“Israel Beiteinu – whose main constituency is the new immigrant community that is the primary victim of the submission to the haredi parties – as well as the Labor Party, should stand firm and make it clear to Netanyahu that they will not be part of a government that subjects Zionism to suicide and exhibits serial surrender to haredi blackmail,” Regev said.

The public opinion survey, commissioned by Hiddush and conducted by Smith Research on June 27-28, was based on a sample of 500 respondents representing Israel’s adult Jewish population.

[Hat Tip: Seymour.]

Comments

[dUH]

hey Mr Isaac,

Jesus never existed so your dead jew on a stick religion is just a poorly retold myth.

Would you lose your will to live without your dead guy on a stick thing?

[Mr. Apikoros]

The way NOT to deal with Nazis like "Isaac," aka "Mark," aka Michael Hoffman III (a well-known Holocaust denier), dUH, is to insult Jesus Christ. All you're doing is validating "Isaac's" anti-Semitic crap.

Jesus may or may not be the Messiah (probably not) but he certainly existed and was at the minimum, a great prophet.

Which is a lot more than I can say about you, dUH.

[Mr. Apikoros]

BTW, assholes, this thread isn't about how evil Stalin's Jewish henchmen were.

[A. Nuran]

Of course the "reality-based community" in Israel is against the subsidies and the racism. They understand that these represent the most severe threat to Israel's existence. The economics are no longer sustainable. The presence of huge numbers who do not work, do not participate in civil society and promote a violent, anti-democratic, totalitarian system is incompatible with a functioning modern country.

[Alter Kocker]

Bravo to the secular and modern orthodox communities. It is time to strip the Chareidim of their political power. The next coalition needs to be free of the leeches.

[harold]

You can't keep out or your gevernment a growing segment of your citizenship and still call yourself a democracy.

Did the poll also ask if the Arabs should also be removed from the government?

Too much schnaps this shabbos, make that

You can't keep out of your government a growing segment of your citizenship and still call yourself a democracy

[WoolSilkCotton]

When those citizens are criminals and parasites, it is essential to keep them out, in order to remain a democracy.

[harold]

When those citizens are criminals and parasites, it is essential to keep them out, in order to remain a democracy

Here we go again, THEY - THEM I just can't stand it when one speaks against a group of hundreds of thousands of people. All people are to be judged by their INDIVIDUAL actions, that is the essence of what democracy is all about! Racism is all about not looking at individuals for what they are but judging individuals by some characterization like – sex, color of skin, religion, length of nose, etc. We will never learn.

[Reader]

Abolish all religious parties. Let their constituencies join other parties, or join Eidah Haredit.

[R]

Harold the charedim are not the majority anywhere in the world.

[WoolSilkCotton]

Harold, the most prejudiced and racist people in the Jewish world are your beloved charedim.

Their individual actions are criminal and racist. They are automatons who obey the orders of their corrupt criminal rabbis.

How about all of your screeds declaring Iowa to be no different than Poland 1943?

[harold]

Harold, the most prejudiced and racist people in the Jewish world are your beloved charedim.

Their individual actions are criminal and racist. They are automatons who obey the orders of their corrupt criminal rabbis.

Its a good thing that you are not a racist. Just a good Jew doing us a favor alerting us to the most evil people on the planet. Keep up the good work!

[WoolSilkCotton]

Anyone who dares to expose the criminals for who they are, and what they are, is automatically a racist, as per harold.

Harold is the same Jew who advocated physical violence against Jews in Israel. Remember the rock throwing, harold, which you applauded?

[harold]

Anyone who dares to expose the criminals for who they are

Thanks to you we now are aware of hundreds of thousands of criminals! WOW! If anyone deserves a medal it is you.

[Fed Up]

Harold,

The Israeli Arabs may or may not support the Israeli government, but they at least pay taxes, obey civil law and perform three years of community service (and, belive it or not, a few even perform military service), and that is more than can be said for the Haredim.

[Mr. Apikoros]

I see nothing wrong with intermarriage. What's wrong is the Haredi tyrants making it difficult or impossible for the non-Jewish spouse to convert to Judaism if she wants to.

If God offered me a choice before I was born to be either a Christian or an ultra-Orthodox Jew, I'd choose "Christian," and it would be a no-brainer.

[chicago sam]

The Haredim would much rather make non-OJs atheists and agnostics--perhaps even Christian--rather than be Reform or Conservative.

I think Israel should boot out the Haredi trouble-makers.

[Bartley Kulp]

Harold, the issues being discussed are not about all Hareidim per se but about their politicians. By the way, many Chareidim do not vote for Chareidi parties. The fact is that Agudat Yisrael is way under represented for the numbers of their constituency. This means that they are not voting according to the gedolim. Shas is way over represented in the Knesset because they are a populist party and garner even some secular votes.

Nobody is asking that Chareidi rights should be curbed at the ballot box. What they are asking is for secular parties to stop forming coalitions with the Chareidi parties in order to bring them into the cabinet. Doing this while horse trading all sorts of funds and deals in the form of "Boss Twead" politics.