(Jewish Group) Conservatives are more likely than liberals to hold anti-Semitic views, survey finds

[Behind the Aegis]

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

Is anti-Semitism more of a problem on the left or the right?

Should Jews concentrate their energy on combating the far right? Or should they focus on fighting anti-Israel bias on campus? How do questions of race relations in the United States play into anti-Jewish bigotry?

As anti-Semitism has risen in the United States in recent years, these questions have preoccupied and divided Jewish leaders, activists and journalists, along with ordinary American Jews struggling to understand a country that may feel less safe than it once was.

Now a survey of American adults, published this week, hopes to answer those questions with data. And the results, according to the two academics who authored it, are clear: Conservatives are more likely to hold anti-Semitic attitudes than liberals, with young conservatives being the most likely to believe stereotypes about Jews.

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Lots to unpack in this article, but nothing really all that surprising in the least.

[gay texan]

1. This just in, water appears to be wet..... n/t

[AZSkiffyGeek]

2. A friend moved from Phoenix to Boston

He says he's run into more anti-Semitism in Boston coffee houses than he ever did in Arizona.

[JohnSJ]

3. I think in Europe both the left and the right hold similar anti-Semitic views about the same

[madaboutharry]

4. The right and the left may take different turns on the anti-Semitism road,

but they end up in the same place. Like the post above states: “Water is wet.”

[JudyM]

5. Yes, as you said, a lot to unpack in this research. Very interesting, thanks for posting it.

While antisemitism in the U.S. is often written about through a “both sides” lens, our evidence — the first of its kind in testing hypotheses through experiments on a large repre- sentative sample — suggests the problem of antisemitism is much more serious on the right than the left. This evidence confirms that the antisemitism that has been on prominent display in white nationalist protests is not merely confined to a tiny group of extremists; antisemitic attitudes appear quite common among young conservatives, and much more so than among older conservatives or among liberals of any age.
We have also identified a high rate of agreement with overt antisemitic statements among Black and Latino identifiers, a phenomenon that is consistent with prior research. Young Black and Latino identifiers agree with overt antisemitic statements at similar rates that far-right white identifiers do.