AP HAS VERY LITTLE IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON IN ISRAEL, STILL MANAGES TO CONVEY THAT LOTS OF ISRAELI-ARABS ARE HOLOCAUST DENIERS

We're just getting so sick of it:

More than a quarter of Israel's Arab citizens believe the Holocaust never happened, and nearly two thirds of Israeli Jews avoid entering Arab towns, a poll by an Israeli university showed Sunday, demonstrating the poor state of relations between the two communities. The poll, conducted by Sami Smoocha, a prominent sociologist at the University of Haifa, showed a wide gap of mistrust, anger and fear between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens.

In its most dramatic finding, the poll showed that 28 percent of Israeli Arabs did not believe the Holocaust happened, and that among high school and college graduates the figure was even higher - 33 percent. According to Smoocha's analysis, radicals in the Arab world believe the Holocaust to be a political event, and many feel that by denying it they are expressing opposition to Israel.

First of all, that's a little weird - a vague distrust of Arabs is the same as Holocaust denial... we'll give you three guesses about the source. Second, we call bullshit on the implication that Israelis driving through the north would not stop at a gas station or eat at a restaurant because it's in a Druze village.

Read an extended version of this post at Mere Rhetoric...