Reassessing The Czech Public Attitudes towards Israel and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=_PxCJbrUjF" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=_PxCJbrUjF</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32422/cjir.1894" target="_blank" >10.32422/cjir.1894</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Reassessing The Czech Public Attitudes towards Israel and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Original language description
The Czech political elites have traditionally maintained an unwavering support for Israel, and it has been popularly assumed that this view is widely translated into the Czech public opinion. In this review essay, I contest this popular assumption and argue that the Czech public opinion is more nuanced and less uniformly pro-Israel than previously believed. Drawing on public opinion data and original surveys, this paper highlights that many Czechs adopt neutral or even maintain some pro-Palestinian stances in this regard despite a dominant pro-Israel media narrative and a unified political consensus. The empirical evidence confidently shows that there is a significant gap in public and elite attitudes towards Israel and Palestine. The Czech case thus goes against the theoretical assumption that an undivided elite discourse favoring a particular policy should translate into a general public support.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Czech Journal of International Relations
ISSN
2788-2985
e-ISSN
2788-2993
Volume of the periodical
60
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
165-178
UT code for WoS article
001590239300007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105013142807