by Nomad
Canadian-born Corey Gil-Shuster isn't what most people would consider an activist. He is just very curious.
With his YouTube channel, The Ask Project, he conducts one-to-one interviews with Jewish, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinian peoples to find out what they think on a particular subject.
The responses are always interesting and sometimes counter-intuitive.
As Gil-Shuster explained to The Jerusalem Post:
“I don’t really care about leaders... I want the guy selling bread, I want the regular guy who sells oranges... they are part of society, too.”
As the article points out:
He typically spends his weekends and his own money traveling all over Israel and the Palestinian territories – often with public transportation – to present his questions to as wide a demographic as possible to give the audience the best possible samples.
All of the questions originate from the viewers and all answers are included and unedited.
Here is a video asking Israelis the question: Would you have an Arab roommate?
And here is the same question for Israeli Arabs: Would you have an Israeli roommate?
(When I watched that, I questioned whether I could stand having a conservative Republican flatmate. I really doubt it.)
Another question, this one is more provocative, for Israelis: On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you hate Palestinians?
Then Palestinians were asked how much they hated Israel.