Brandeis University Magazine
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17th June 2024
‘We Must Not Lose Hope’
Tallying public opinion as a war rages around you would seem next to impossible.
But that’s exactly what pollster Khalil Shikaki, senior fellow at Brandeis’ Crown Center for Middle East Studies, is doing: surveying Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank during the Israel-Hamas war.
Shikaki has dedicated his life to documenting Palestinian public opinion and sharing his objective empirical data with communities, policymakers, and academics. His most recent survey, the 91st opinion poll he’s conducted in Gaza and the West Bank, was arguably the most personal one of all.
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi