Poll: Lots of Right-Wingers Dislike Police

YERUSHALAYIM

A poll shows that hatred and negative attitudes of Israelis to police has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. The poll, according to Hadashot News, said that negative messages and comments about police on social media sites and other outlets had risen 149 percent over the last year alone. Over the past five years the increase was 498 percent.

The poll examined messages, words, expressions, attachments, and other items that expressed sentiments, both positive and negative, about police. The poll examined comments made on social media and online forums between Nov. 1, 2017 and Oct. 30, 2018.

According to the poll, taken by the Berel Katznelson Institute and the Vigo firm, most of that anti-police sentiment comes from Israelis who identify as right-wingers; 58 percent of the incitement came from that sector. Only 2 percent came from those identifying themselves as leftists, while the political sentiments of 40 percent were unknown.

Of the sentiment against outgoing Police Commissioner Roni Alshich, 53 percent was from those on the right and 6 percent from those on the left, with the political affiliation of 41 percent was unknown, the poll claimed. The highest levels of anti-Alshich sentiment appeared in February, when reports said that police were about to recommend that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu be indicted in several of the cases against him.

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