(Jewish Group) Almost all American Jews say anti-Semitism is a problem...

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Almost all American Jews say anti-Semitism is a problem, according to a new poll. Half of Americans don’t know what it means.

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

Nearly half of Americans don’t know what the phrase “anti-Semitism” means.

That’s one takeaway from two surveys published Monday by the American Jewish Committee. The surveys asked Jews and the general American public about anti-Semitism in the United States.

The Jewish survey found that a large majority of Jews consider anti-Semitism a problem, and that most see it as a problem on the right and in the Republican Party. Those findings were in line with what the AJC, a nonpartisan advocacy organization, found when it surveyed American Jews last year.

The new surveys found that, in a year when 88% of American Jews say anti-Semitism remains a problem in the United States, 21% of Americans overall — more than one in five — say they’ve never even heard of the term. An additional 25% of Americans overall have heard the term but are unsure of what it means.

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This is doesn't surprise me. If almost half don't even know what anti-Semitism is, then they sure as hell don't know it when they see it!

Most Americans overall also said the opinions of Jewish people and organizations make no difference to them when considering whether a statement or idea is anti-Semitic. A quarter of Americans overall said that Jews considering something anti-Semitic would make them more likely to consider it anti-Semitic, 7% said it would make them less likely to consider it anti-Semitic and 62% of people said it would make no difference.

And there it is!

[CozyMystery]

1. I am well aware of anti-Semitism and

it shocks me that everyone doesn't know what it is.

Holocaust-deniers are prime ones. So are white supremacists.

And so are ordinary people who aren't in those two groups. My half-sister and my stepmother are Jewish. The number of times I've had to step in to inform these ordinary people that they are being anti-Semitic, I always bring those two beloved relatives into the conversation.

In my husband's long career as a criminal defense lawyer, he has had one case in which a Jewish person was one of the defendants. That shocked me. The guy was an accountant for the Mob. He has represented over 1,000 defendants, easily, and he did not represent that Jewish guy because he already represented another defendant in the same group.

I am really lucky. My Mom was a child in Leipzig, Germany, during WWII. She lived through incredible hardship, including starvation, during the war, and two of her fathers (actual and stepfather) died fighting the war.

She is the one who taught us about the Jewish religion. So much so, that I became very interested in the topic and read everything I could get my hands on.

She is the one who made sure her children grieved for the Jews and respected them.

[nycbos]

2. Antisemitism unites the far right and the far left.

It is the force that gives credence to the horseshoe theory of politics.

[MosheFeingold]

3. I can't like your post enough

One of the main organizers of Charlottesville was a 99%er, pro-Obama, guy.

ANTIFA is heavily antisemitic, as is BLM. (Or, more accurately, large elements within each group.)

It's not a "left" or "right" problem, at all.