A new poll has found that 47 per cent of Britons want either fewer or no immigrants from Israel to move to the UK, an increase of eight per cent since 2016.
The YouGov survey also revealed that only 5 per cent believed that the UK “should allow more” immigrants from Israel, while 24 percent were content with the current number of Israelis coming to the UK.
Within the 47 per cent figure, 23 per cent said that the UK should “allow less” migration from Israel, while 24 per cent said that the UK should “not allow any” from Israel “at all”.
Only two countries had a higher response rate in favour of banning all immigration than Israel, with Pakistan at 25 per cent, and Russia at 34 per cent.
And only three saw a higher proportion call for either less or no immigration, those being Russia at 58 per cent, Pakistan at 52 per cent, and Nigeria at 48 per cent, while Romania was equal with Israel at 47 per cent.
When broken down by how respondents voted at the last general election, the poll revealed that supporters of Reform UK were consistently the most hostile to increased immigration across all countries suggested, while Green voters were consistently the most permissive.
However, when it came to Israeli immigration, supporters of both parties were almost equally likely to be hostile to increased immigration and, in the case of US immigration, Green voters were actually more averse to the prospect than Reform voters.
Overall, respondents were more likely to have a negative view of immigration in general than they were 10 years ago.
In YouGov’s previous survey on the topic, in August 2016, 33 per cent of respondents agreed that immigration was “most bad for the UK”, but this has now risen to 43 per cent.
This has largely been driven by a decline in those who thought it was “both good and bad”, down from 38 per cent to 29 per cent, while the proportion of those who thought it was "mostly good” stayed relatively steady, dropping from 22 per cent to 21 per cent.
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