That the Left in Israel is marginal, ineffective and without significant public support?
A few months ago, Molad conducted a survey that probed the Israeli public's attitudes toward the left. The survey featured 1,000 respondents, and was carried out by Jim Gerstein, a leading American pollster who worked for Ehud Barak during the then-Labor politician's campaign for prime minister. The poll results are fascinating. They bear witness to the Herculean task the Molad center's founders have adopted in their hopes of reviving the left.
And refuse to reveal data:
Leftist organization not to release poll details for time being
Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA 9 August 2012
Avner Inbar, the head of Molad - The Center for Renewal of Democracy, told IMRA today that for the time being they are not releasing more details of their poll of Israelis to the public beyond what was published in a feature article in today's edition of Haaretz. Inbar agreed with IMRA's assessment that the article written by Yossi Verter did not provide any information regarding Israeli attitudes towards various issues relating to the Arab Israeli conflict - including their positions on territorial concessions. Inbar further noted that Haaretz reporter Verter had been provided with poll result information on Israeli positions and that he could have published them in the article. Avner Inbar declined to share any of these results with IMRA and explained
that they are still studying the results of the poll and hope to present the results in detail in a few weeks.
Here is NGO-Monitor's take on the revolutionaries involved:
MOLAD: THE CENTER FOR THE RENEWAL OF DEMOCRACY
Website: molad.org. As of July 16, 2012, there is no content on the website.
Established in January 2012. Registered in Israel as a Company for the Benefit of the Public.
“Molad is an Israeli think tank devoted to the development and promotion of a progressive vision for the state of Israel.” The New Israel Fund (NIF) describes Molad as a “think-do tank.”
Mission: “Molad aims at becoming a hub for progressive thinking in Israel, drawing the most creative and innovative intellectual and social forces in the country, facilitating exchange of ideas and amplifying their impact on Israeli society and politics. Molad’s principle undertaking of is to counter a long-lasting attenuation of political reason in Israel by proposing a unified vision of the State of Israel as a progressive democracy in the Middle East.”
Officials: Avraham Burg is a founder and chair of Molad. Head of Molad is Avner Inbar, co-founder of the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement. Research director is Assaf Sharon, a leader of Breaking the Silence, Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement, and Ta’ayush. Director of Policy is Mikhael Manekin, former Breaking the Silence official.
Funders: Molad is listed as a grantee of NIF’s Social Justice Fund (Ford-Israel Fund) in 2011. In correspondence, NIF would not reveal how much it had granted Molad in that year.
Molad is also listed as a partner by the EU-funded Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation. As of July 16, 2012, Anna Lindh Foundation had not responded to NGO Monitor inquiries about funding for Molad.
According to the Anna Lindh Foundation, the Skoll Global Threats Foundations also funds Molad. In contrast to transparency norms, following inquiries regarding Molad to Anna Lindh Foundation and NIF, this information, as well as references to NIF funding, was removed from the Anna Lindh Foundation website.
Projects: “Current projects include research on ‘Israel’s international standing’, ‘Transforming political ideologies’, and ‘the crisis of the middle class’.” (This information was also removed from the Anna Lindh website at some point during the period of July 1-16, 2012.)
And Steve Plaut's analysis:
You can tell that things are really REALLY going well in Israel when Haaretz, the Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew, reports that Israelis by and large despise the Left. Which of course does not stop the Haaretz spin that fills the paper. The banner headline at the top of page 1 of today's Hebrew Haaretz reads, "The majority of the public holds leftist points of view but detests the Left." You can see the watered down English version here.
The story is based on a public opinion survey conducted by a Far-Leftist propaganda group, which Haaretz calls a think tank. The propaganda group is called Molad - The Center for Renewal of Democracy. It was run until recently by arch anti-Zionist Avraham Burg. Burg is a vile scumbag who compares Israel with Nazi Germany (see here )...This Molad hired one Jim Gerstein to run a public opinion survey for it and Haaretz describes him as a leading pollster from America.
In Haaretz' words, he is "a leading American pollster who worked for Ehud Barak during the then-Labor politician's campaign for prime minister." Well, knowing a thing or three about American public opinion surveying, I had never heard of Comrade Gerstein. It turns out he is a "pollster" for Tablet, the hippy leftist Jewish magazine best described as Tikkun-Lite. He spends the rest of his time working for "J Street," whose "J" we all know stands for "jihad." (See here).
Well, Gerstein is about as serious a pollster as I am a ballerina. But the story is still noteworthy because even his "poll" finds that Israelis hate the Left. He claims to find that 63% of Israelis have a solidly negative opinion of the Left (it is not clear if Gerstein included Arabs in his survey). Left bashing is even stronger among young Israelis. And what about the Haaretz headline, claiming that most Israelis actually hold leftist opinions? Well, you can comb the entire article and you will not find anything that backs this headline "inference"...The poll does find that most Israelis think the current government does not have solutions for the country's socioeconomic problems, and that the parties of the Right tend to promote their own interests over national interests. But that hardly means that Israelis are leftists. Hell, I agree with THOSE statements, and I have been accused of making Attila the Hun look like a liberal.
Watch out, left-wing radical subversives at work.
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