The timing of this article is interesting considering I (and some of you) spent much of my weekend watching documentaries about the Third Reich and the Holocaust. And as I was watching it, I couldn’t help but think that the same mindset that slaughtered 6 million Jews still exists within countries, even governments all around Israel. It’s being taught in their schools and defined in their government charters as they proclaim for all the world to hear their desire to see the destruction of Israel. So I’m not surprised that nearly half of Israelis believe that it could happen again even though they moderate on how probable they believe it is.
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HAARETZ – About 40 percent of all Israelis believe the Holocaust could happen again, and 43 percent are reportedly concerned the State of Israel is in danger of being destroyed, according to a poll conducted by Tel-Hai Academic College.
The poll was conducted by faculty members in the psychology department at the college, located in the Upper Galilee.
Seventeen percent of respondents said the chance of a second Holocaust was very high; 23 percent said there was a moderate risk it could occur; while nearly 59 percent reportedly thought the risk was low.
The findings reflect the deep impact of the Holocaust on succeeding generations in Israel, including those born in Israel after World War II, according to Prof. Shaul Kimhi, the chair of Tel-Hai’s psychology department and one of the faculty members involved in the study.
“It turns out that more than a third of Israelis believe that the Holocaust was not a one-time occurrence and could happen again,” Kimhi said. …
The poll surveyed adults between 18 and 85, as well as 12th-grade high school students who had taken school trips to Holocaust sites in Poland. When respondents were asked to what extent they felt their lives and the lives of their family members were in danger, 55 percent rated the risk as low or non-existent. About 12 percent said they thought they were at great risk, and 31 percent rated the risk as moderate.