South African Jews hopeful teetering coalition will be forced to temper anti-Israel stance

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Fortunately, increased anti-Israel rhetoric from within the government hasn't trickled down to anti-Jewish hatred at the local level, community members say.
56% : " Even college campuses, which are hotbeds of anti-Israeli protests in the United States, are relatively tame in South Africa, Shulman noted.
39% : About 120,000 Jews lived in the country at the community's peak in the 1960s, but waves of political instability and violence, including the end of apartheid in 1994, led many to seek new homes in Israel or elsewhere, Kline said.
21% : That followed an executive order issued by Trump in February to cut all funding to South Africa, accusing the government in Pretoria of supporting Hamas and Iran and pursuing domestic policies that harm the country's white population.

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