
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.
