BPNIC Briefing, June 2007

After the 40 years following Israel’s annexation of Palestinian lands, more Brazilian’s have placed their sympathy with the Palestinians than with Israel, according to a BBC World Service public opinion poll. The poll indicated a high percentage of Brazilians view Israel influence quite negatively. 72% of Brazilians view Israel’s influence as negative.

Although the report did not suggest why Israel is viewed negatively in Brazil, it’s evident that Brazilians are able to see the "real" Israeli plan for Palestine, which as described by a Palestinian academic Karma Nabulsi, is "a vision of an anarchic society, truncated, violent, powerless, destroyed, cowed, ruled by disparate militias, gangs, religious ideologues and extremists, broken up into ethnic and religious tribalism and co-opted collaborationists."