Monday, February 13, 2023
- Monday, February 13, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- American antisemitism, American Jewish Congress, opinion poll, unintended consequenses
The latest AJC report on antisemitism in America has an interesting datapoint.
34% of the American public is not familiar with classic antisemitic tropes, and therefore they don't see the problem with a statement like "Jews control the media."
There were a number of questions asked of both Jews and the general American public about antisemitism, and for most of them, the responses were very similar. For example:
Amazingly, a higher percentage of the American public (90%) feels that the statement "ISrael has no right to exist" is antisemitic than Jews! (87%)
Where they diverge is concerning, though.
The next question is even more concerning - both about the general American response and the Jewish response:
58% of Americans and even 41% of Jews don't see comparing Covid mandates to the Holocaust as antisemitic - somehow, apparently, conflating mandatory wearing of the yellow star, as bad as that is, with gas chambers.
A lot of people are very uneducated.And the ignorance that results can help bring about the next wave of antisemitism.