The high levels of racism among Israelis towards non-Jews is highlighted in every poll.
According to one this month, more than half of Israeli Jews or those willing to admit it believed that "most Jews are better than most non-Jews because they were born Jews". Only a fifth rejected the statement outright.
Some 74 per cent were disturbed by hearing Arabic, the mother tongue of the fifth of the country's population who are Palestinian citizens. And a further 88 per cent did not want their son to befriend an Arab girl.
Anti-immigrant viewsA separate poll this month found that, apart from Greeks, Israelis hold the most anti-immigrant views of 27 countries surveyed more so even than Hungarians.
By immigrants, of course, Israelis mean non-Jews. They do not regard the millions of Jews who have arrived in Israel from Europe and the Americas over the past decades as immigrants. Instead they are viewed as olim, or those who "ascend" to Israel, supposedly returning to their Biblically ordained home.
It is this ideological affinity between a European ultra-nationalism and the kind of Zionist ultra-nationalism dominant in Israel that explains why the far-right in Europe venerates Israel while despising Jews, and why so many Israelis prefer an Orban to a Soros.
And it is also, of course, explains why Netanyahu and most Israelis detest Corbyn.
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