Three weeks after the Hamas attack in Israel, the IFOP carried out a major survey for the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France intended to understand perceptions of the conflict and its risk of importation into France.
The results of the study highlight an unambiguous contestation of the acts of Hamas, qualified as being terrorist (57%) or being crimes against humanity (35%) and by only 8% of French people as being acts of resistance. Furthermore, Hamas arouses the sympathy of only 5% of French people compared to 61% who feel antipathy (and 34% feel neither sympathy nor antipathy). The Jewish State benefits from a higher level of sympathy but nevertheless not a majority. (37%). The Israeli people, on the other hand, benefit from the sympathy of 82% of the French (including 27% “a lot” and 55% “a little”).
Concern about a spread of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in France is shared by 82% of French people. Furthermore, 72% believe that acts like those of Hamas could occur in France.
