{"id":55964,"date":"2017-09-25T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T15:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=55964"},"modified":"2017-09-23T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T14:14:48","slug":"21-05-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=55964","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Think – Strong Correlation Between Antisemitism and \u2018Anti-Israelism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>New Report From UK Jewish Think Tank Shows Strong Correlation Between Antisemitism and \u2018Anti-Israelism\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ben Cohen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Jeremy Corbyn leads a pro-Palestinian demonstration in London in 2014, one year before becoming Labour Party leader. Photo: File.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLevels of antisemitism\u201d in Britain are among the lowest in the world, a new report from London think-tank the Institute of Jewish Policy Research (JPR) issued on Tuesday has concluded \u2013 but those who harbor anti-Israeli views are far more likely to express antisemitism than those who are neutral on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBritish Jews constitute a religious and ethnic group that is seen overwhelmingly positively by an absolute majority of the British population,\u201d the report \u2013 authored by JPR Senior Research Fellow Daniel Staetsky \u2013 observed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAbout 70% of the population of Great Britain have a favorable opinion of Jews and do not entertain any antisemitic ideas or views at all,\u201d the report, entitled \u201cAntisemitism in contemporary Great Britain,\u201d stated. \u201cIn this respect, Jews are in a similar position to some other religious minorities, most notably Hindus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There is also a great degree of variation among the remaining 30 per cent of Britons who display some form of antisemitic attitude, the report noted.\u201dThe 30% figure captures the current level of the diffusion of antisemitic ideas in British society, and offers an indication of the likelihood of British Jews encountering such ideas,\u201d the report said.<\/span><\/p>\n

While open, hardcore antisemitism is demonstrated by less than 3 per cent of Britons, antisemitic attitudes are more visible among certain sub-groups than others. \u201cThe presence of antisemitic and anti-Israel attitudes is 2 to 4 times higher among Muslims compared to the general UK population,\u201d the report observed. \u201cYet most Muslims (60%) \u2013 religious or not \u2013 agree with the statement \u2018A British Jew is just as British as any other person,\u2019 and most either disagree with, or are neutral on, every one of the antisemitic statements presented to them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Critically, the report demonstrates that \u201cthe stronger a person\u2019s anti-Israel views, the more likely they are to hold antisemitic attitudes,\u201d noting as well that \u201call parts of those on the left of the political spectrum \u2013 including the \u2018slightly left-of-centre,\u2019 the \u2018fairly left-wing\u2019 and the \u2018very left-wing\u2019 \u2013 exhibit higher levels of anti-Israelism than average.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn numerical terms, 86% of those who do not hold any anti-Israel attitudes do not hold any antisemitic attitudes either; whereas, among those holding a large number of anti-Israel attitudes, only 26% do not hold any antisemitic attitudes,\u201d the report said. This finding echoes the conclusion of a similar study in 2005 by the academics Charles Small and Edward Kaplan, which revealed that individuals \u201cwith extreme anti-Israel sentiment are roughly six times more likely to harbor antisemitic views than those who do not fault Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At the launch of the report in London last night, Dave Rich of the Community Security Trust, the communal Jewish defense body in the UK, highlighted the findings of the JPR report in the context of the antisemitism scandals that have dogged the opposition Labour Party since it elected the far left parliamentarian Jeremy Corbyn as its leader in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe report shows levels of antisemitism on the left are the same as those for society as a whole,\u201d Rich said. \u201cThe defense we have heard from some in the Labour Party that because the left is an anti-racist space therefore by definition there can\u2019t be antisemitism \u2013 that\u2019s just not true.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is as easy to find there as it is anywhere else,\u201d Rich said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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New Report From UK Jewish Think Tank Shows Strong Correlation Between Antisemitism and \u2018Anti-Israelism\u2019 Ben Cohen Jeremy Corbyn leads a pro-Palestinian demonstration in London in 2014, one year before becoming Labour Party leader. Photo: File. \u201cLevels of antisemitism\u201d in Britain are among the lowest in the world, a new report from London think-tank the Institute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55964"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55989,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55964\/revisions\/55989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}