facility:israel democracy institute

Most Israeli Jews agree: African migrants are “a cancer”
►http://www.timesofisrael.com/most-israeli-jews-agree-africans-are-a-cancer

Fifty-two percent of Jewish Israelis identify with the statement by MK Miri Regev last month that African migrants are “a cancer in the body” of the nation, and over a third condone anti-migrant violence, according to the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) Peace Index for May 2012.

Broken down by political and religious affiliation, the monthly index’s findings reveal that among Jews there is a direct correlation between right-wing political affiliation and a racist attitude toward migrants. Thus, 86 percent of Shas voters and 66 percent of Likud voters polled expressed identification with Regev’s controversial statement, as opposed to 32 percent of Labor voters and four percent of Meretz voters.

The degree of religiosity attested to by respondents also accounted for a large disparity in the findings, with 81.5% and 66% of self-described ultra-Orthodox and Orthodox, respectively, agreeing with Regev’s statement, as opposed to 38% of secular Israelis.

LEBANON : Former World Bank president shunned by students and faculty, withdraws from ceremony - latimes.com
►http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/06/lebanon-former-world-bank-president-shunned-by-students-and-fa

The petition tied its objections to Wolfensohn’s work as president of the World Bank from 1995 to 2005, his membership in the International Advisory Council of the Israel Democracy Institute, which according to its website, “acts to promote the values and norms appropriate for Israel as a Jewish and democratic state,” and his investment in Better Place, a company that according to the petition, "intends to build infrastructure to serve Israeli settlers in the West Bank."

C’est la grande affaire du moment à l’Université américaine de Beyrouth : un large mouvement de protestation, au travers d’une pétition signée par de nombreux étudiants et enseignants, s’est opposé à la remise d’un titre honorifique à John Wolfensohn. Lequel a finalement annoncé qu’il ne viendrait pas recevoir de prix.

Cet article du blog du LA Times fait un résumé qui me semble clair. Et ça ne doit pas être tous les jours que Fawwaz Traboulsi est cité dans le Los Angeles Times.