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4 Feb, 2015

Negative views of Israel soar in the UK, new survey shows | The Electronic Intifada

Israel ranks as one of the world’s most unfavorably viewed countries among the UK public, second only to North Korea.

A new survey by the UK think-tank Chatham House finds that 35 percent of the UK public have an “especially unfavorable” view of Israel.

This is double the 17 percent who held such a view during the previous survey in June 2012.

Only North Korea was viewed more unfavorably, at 47 percent. Thirty-three percent had an “especially unfavorable” view of Iran, and 28 percent held such a view of Pakistan, the next most unfavorably viewed countries.

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