Poll: 54% of Israelis say Diaspora Jews have no right to criticize Israel

By Amiram Barkat , Haaretz Correspondent

Some 54 percent of Jewish Israelis believe that Jews living outside the country have no right to publicly criticize the government of Israel, since they do not live here, a poll revealed.

Forty percent said Diaspora Jews do have a right to criticize Israel, "because every Jew is a partner in Israel no matter where they live."

These were among the findings of a poll of 500 Jewish Israelis commissioned by the B'nai Brith World Center in Jerusalem. Respondents were divided over how to strengthen Israel and the Jewish people: 46 percent said that this requires all Jews to live in Israel, while 41 percent said that the route to this goal is through maintaining Jewish communities throughout the world.

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Only one quarter of the respondents thought that the Israeli media should expand their coverage of Diaspora Jewry.

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1.	A Two Way Street	04:57	\|	J Olson	15/06/07

2.	How ridiculous	05:17	\|	Conroy	15/06/07

3.	Critics of Israel.	05:47	\|	James Rodgers	15/06/07

4.	EVERY JEW BY BIRTHRIGHT OWNS THIS LAND AS HIS INHERITANCE))))))))	05:55	\|	VOICE of MOSHIACH)))	15/06/07

5.	Dispora Jews	05:56	\|	NYC	15/06/07

6.	I Agree with J Olson (Post No. 1)	06:05	\|	Johnny Weintraub	15/06/07

7.	Give Back Our Money	06:14	\|	dan	15/06/07

8.	criticise Israel	06:58	\|	Rachel Simson	15/06/07

9.	Israel is a sovereign state	07:17	\|	Jon	15/06/07

10.	TO NYC (#5)	07:36	\|	simon	15/06/07

11.	#7, GIVE BACK MY OUR MONEY, DAN.	08:51	\|	MYRON BERLINER	15/06/07

12.	no right to criticize	09:56	\|	LARRY	15/06/07

13.	As a Roman Catholic I protest against the pope`s policies, so?	11:07	\|	Gesina Maria	15/06/07

14.	where does that leave me after alijah and jeridah?	11:28	\|	Tom Smitsloo	15/06/07

15.	Get over It folks!	11:53	\|	Joel Weltman	15/06/07

16.	I don`t get it	12:03	\|	Big Al	15/06/07

17.	To Simon of Hadera: what if Israel would vanish	12:23	\|	Yaron	15/06/07

18.	54% of Israelis, not Jews!	12:48	\|	Maurice Cohen	15/06/07

19.	everybody can criticize everybody	13:20	\|	juan	15/06/07

20.	Yes Juan	13:39	\|	Yaron	15/06/07

21.	# JOEL WELTMAN clever Florida jew	13:41	\|	juan	15/06/07

22.	disporia jews antiseminites?	14:18	\|	how dare they?	15/06/07

23.	only civil servants are left and the older generation	14:33	\|	Ran	15/06/07

24.	why would diaspora jews want to return home?	14:39	\|	yahn goodey	15/06/07

25.	Diaspora Jews` Money	15:05	\|	Jay	15/06/07

26.	4 VOICE of MOSHIACH)	15:07	\|	alan	15/06/07

27.	American Jewry speaks out	15:11	\|	Sheila	15/06/07

28.	A solution	15:17	\|	jon F	15/06/07

29.	Poll: 92% of Disapora Jews say	15:18	\|	Mark Lincoln	15/06/07

30.	Dispora Jews - a say? But they do pay	15:30	\|	Linda Baharier	15/06/07

31.	C`mon now...	15:37	\|	Dante	15/06/07

32.	To riticize Israel?	15:49	\|	Lena	15/06/07

33.	Whats the pictures of the NK manics got to do with this.	15:50	\|	S Judah	15/06/07

34.	pay no attention to inane polls - and note to #17	15:52	\|	henry	15/06/07

35.	To Yaron from Barcelona	15:55	\|	Hastaroth	15/06/07

36.	agree with #19, Juan	15:57	\|	newageblues	15/06/07

37.	#7 Dan	15:57	\|	* BEN JABO	15/06/07

38.	#14 Tom	16:00	\|	* BEN JABO	15/06/07

39.	Rights of diaspora Jews	16:03	\|	Miriam	15/06/07

40.	#28 Mark Lincoln - Not another anonymous poll	16:06	\|	* BEN JABO	15/06/07

41.	brothers and sisters	16:06	\|	Gil	15/06/07

42.	I almost forgot, Neturei Karta	16:11	\|	Gil	15/06/07

43.	#13 Gesina Maria: Not the same thing	16:36	\|	Bill	15/06/07

44.	Zip The Lip And Send The Check	16:48	\|	Tony Anthony	15/06/07

45.	Right to criticize	17:02	\|	Jorge Schussheim	15/06/07

46.	Gesina Maria, religion has nothing to do with it	17:04	\|	Jake	15/06/07

47.	Linda Baharier 30	17:56	\|	alan	15/06/07

48.	Americans have right to criticize	18:10	\|	Rick	15/06/07

49.	#45 Jorge Schussheim	02:00	\|	* BEN JABO	16/06/07