| New AJC survey: 11% of young Americans think Jews caused the Holocaust; US Jews are hiding their Jewishness (video)noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 10 | | Yesterday, the UN hosted an event on Globalizing Efforts to Combat Antisemitism. Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff gave the keynote, and prominent names in the field of antisemitism studies spoke.
One of the speakers was Ted Deutch, chief executive officer of the American Jewish Committee, who highlighted a survey that the AJC will release next week.
He noted some of the findings:
63% of them do not know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
Nearly half cannot name a single concentration camp or death camp.
Eleven percent of American Millennials and Gen Zs said Jews caused the Holocaust. These seem to be identical to the survey done in 2020 by the Claims Conference, so I assume that the numbers came from there. (In that survey, 20% of young New York State residents believed that Jews were responsible for their own genocide!)
But Deutch added that the AJC survey found a dramatic increase in the number of American Jews who feel less secure than they did a year ago, and an increase in the number of US Jews who have changed their behavior to avoid going to places where they believe that their Jewishness could cause a problem for them.
Deutch noted how easily antisemitism is spread on social media and urged social media companies to enforce their own policies.
Here are the highlights of his comments. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at...Read More |
From Ian: Howard Jacobson: Jews in their own words… so long as they don't say 'Israel' In the stage play and the television documentary, Freedland and Baddiel allowed themselves to be distracted by the question of whether or not an English Jew bears responsibility for Israel's heinous misdeeds. There's a right and a wrong way of answering that. "We are not our brother's keeper" is the wrong way. "He is not even our brother" is worse still. Insist your innocence of someone else's heinous misdeeds and all you do is concede the heinousness. To deny affinity with Israel is to deny affinity with Jewish history. The marauding, child-murdering colonialists of anti-Zionist propaganda (see Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children) are the same hated Jews of 2,000 years ago: separatists, thieves and blood-suckers, long before there was an Israeli soldier patrolling the West Bank. The same calumnies and caricatures proliferate, only this time the Z-word stands in for the J-word. Whoever would engage with the double-think of antisemitism today cannot be indifferent to the creeping menace of this shape-shifting. Israel is where antisemitism has migrated. But heigh-ho, "Israel-Shmisrael". Israeli Jews don't count. One cannot accuse Jonathan Freedland of indifference to Israel. For years now, his Guardian column has extolled the country's achievements while scrupulously...Read More |
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(I can't believe no one has done this before!)
Gilligan's Island, the enormously popular TV series of the 1960s, was created by Sherwood Schwartz, a Jew born in Passaic, NJ in 1916. Schwartz, who also created The Brady Bunch, became a writer in part because of antisemitism.
He intended to go to medical school but the quota system in place limiting the number of Jews stopped him from being accepted. A friend suggested he change his last name to Black (the translation of Schwartz) and pretend to be a Unitarian to get into med school. Schwartz's response: "I said, 'Look, I'm Jewish. I'm not ashamed of that. My name is Schwartz and I'm not ashamed of that. I'm not going to be changing anything to get into medical school.' So as a result I didn't get into medical school."
Schwartz thought that his chances of being accepted might be better if he got a second degree, so he went to stay with his older brother Al in California to attend USC, where he got a masters in biological science. At the time, Al was a writer for Bob Hope, so Sherwood submitted a few jokes to the comedy legend - and was hired with a seven year writing contract.
He went on from there to write for comedy series like the Ozzie and Harriet radio show in the 1950s. But all the while, he was developing his own show.
Schwartz described the concept in an...Read More
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From Ian: MEMRI: Lebanese Writer: President Assad Destroyed Syria In The Civil War, Which Was A Greater Disaster Than The Palestinian Nakba, And Left Syria Unable To Deal With The Earthquake In an article titled "Syria and the Ongoing Disaster" in the London-based Qatari daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, French-Lebanese academic and journalist Gilbert Achcar notes that the number of Syrian victims in the recent earthquake is especially large, and this is because Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad destroyed the country in the civil war that has been ongoing since 2012, leaving it unable to cope with a disaster like an earthquake. The Syrian civil war, he adds, was a greater disaster than the Palestinian Nakba, because the number of people who were killed in it and in the oppression that accompanied it is ten times greater. He notes further that the Syrian refugees living in parts of Turkey affected by the quake were packed into buildings constructed hastily and in violation of earthquake regulations, which contributed to the high death toll. The following are translated excerpts from Achcar's article.[1]
"If what happened in Palestine before the founding of the state of Israel can be described as a nakba [catastrophe], then what happened in Syria, especially since the start of the civil war there in 2012, can [certainly] be called a calamity. It is one of the...Read More |
In December, the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and Tel Aviv University carried out a joint opinion survey of Palestinians and Israelis, asking them similar questions to compare their opinions. These joint polls have been happening for years, and they are very valuable in comparing both sides' opinions of the peace process or a two state solution.
There were two questions asked, though, which were not well thought out. The responses are far more significant than they appear at first blush.
The pair of questions were prefaced with, "To what extent do you disagree or agree with the following statements regarding the experiences of Jews /Palestinians generally?" with the wording of "Jews" given to Israelis and "Palestinians" to Palestinian Arabs.
The first statement was, "I believe that the suffering of Palestinians/Jews is unique throughout the human history."
This question implies an equivalence between the Jewish people who have existed for over 3500 years and a Palestinian people who have existed as a self-defined people for, at the very most, a century. If the question was meant to show equivalence, it should have used "Israelis" instead of "Jews."
The answers: More Palestinians than Israeli Jews think that their suffering is unique throughout human history! Given that Jewish history includes centuries of pogroms, Crusades, expulsions, forced conversions, massacres and a Holocaust, this Palestinian mindset...Read More |
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