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Mannahnin wrote:

AustonT wrote:And Democrats are more likely to be anti-Semitic, but not all are. Some might even argue that the Democrats are the MOST racist as race tends to be central to their political platform. That's why sweeping generalizations don't work. You can't ever really say "all of X are..."
http://jewishresearch.org/PDFs/A_S_Report_web.pdf

Those numbers are a bit disturbing, Methodology looks pretty clean. Do we know the outcome of those follow up studies they talk about in there? Ten years isn't all that old, but it has been a little while.

They have been focusing on campus anti-semitism, so unless I missed it they have not produced a follow up and I don't know if someone else has.
It's really nothing new. Letty Pogrebin wrote about anti-semitism in the feminist movement in 1982 in MS magazine. I think we can all agree that the feminist movement was largely is not entirely liberal in its composition.
The Malhotra and Margalit article is much more recent, and less well conducted but also indicates similar results conducted by a very different researcher.


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LordofHats wrote:I think Dog was being sarcastic and witty Austin, or at least, I hope he was XD

meh, I was being less than serious.

CT GAMER wrote:One also has to consider the demographics of those democrats that one might define as anti-Semitic. A lot of discussion and research has looked at the trend in recent years for younger Jewish democrats to be anti-isreal and to be in opposition to their elders on issues of Jewish/ Isreali politics, religion and culture. And these individuals represent a major block of democrat anti-semitism. So the issue is not as simple as "democrats are more anti-semitic" which does not illuminate it really is part of a much bigger internal rift within the larger Jewish community of the US.

They all live in fear of aipac

LordofHats wrote:I think Dog was being sarcastic and witty Austin, or at least, I hope he was XD

Mostly. I don't consider "If I Did It" to be a confession the way most people do, I consider it to be a money grab and maybe a confession as well.


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Mannahnin wrote:

AustonT wrote:And Democrats are more likely to be anti-Semitic, but not all are. Some might even argue that the Democrats are the MOST racist as race tends to be central to their political platform. That's why sweeping generalizations don't work. You can't ever really say "all of X are..."
http://jewishresearch.org/PDFs/A_S_Report_web.pdf

Those numbers are a bit disturbing, Methodology looks pretty clean. Do we know the outcome of those follow up studies they talk about in there? Ten years isn't all that old, but it has been a little while.

I'm not surprised by the numbers, really. And, honestly, that Democrats return results higher rates of antisemitic responses for media control, and self-interest isn't surprising.

In terms of media, I suspect that across the entire political spectrum the belief that we get inaccurate news, and that someone is to blame, is fairly consistent. I also suspect that the conservative beliefs that liberals are to blame is related to the lower rate of belief that Jews are to blame. This, of course, doesn't excuse antisemitism, its simply a point that if you're looking to blame someone, and you already have a large target, you're less likely to blame others.

In terms of self-interest, well, lots of liberals really don't like Israel because of perceived mistreatment of Palestinians. That dovetails nicely.

I wasn't aware that being against Israel's treatment of Palestine made you anti-semitic.

Since Zimmerman has now been charged, I will lock this topic and let the discussion move into the other topic.