amie Stern-Weiner and Alan Maddison - The New-Antisemitism: Proof At Last? Archived Message Posted by johnhol on February 26, 2019, 4:57 pm Begins: Anti-Jewish animus is often perceived to be lurking behind seemingly legitimate criticism of the state of Israel. This belief has received intellectual articulation under the conceptual rubric of the ‘new antisemitism’, which purports that hostility to Israel is merely classical antisemitism in new guise. In a recent front-page article headlined ‘Survey Reveals Clear Link Between BDS and Jew-hate’, the Jewish Chronicle proffered empirical support for this enduring suspicion. Alleging that ‘a majority of people in the UK who support boycotts or regard Israel as an apartheid state hold anti-Jewish views’, the Chronicle reported: 'No fewer than 58 per cent of those who consider Israel an apartheid state strongly agreed or tended to agree with five antisemitic ideas presented to them, while 52 per cent of boycotters identified with six or more.' A Jewish Telegraph front-page relayed the same findings (headlined: ‘Israel Hate “Is Antisemitism”’) in near-identical words: ‘a majority of people in the UK who support boycotts or regard Israel as an apartheid state also hold anti-Jewish views’. Misrepresenting the data Both articles were based on a recent paper by David Graham and Jonathan Boyd, published by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) and Community Security Trust (CST), which explored the relationship between antisemitism and hostility to Israel. But both articles misrepresented the paper’s findings.[1] Graham and Boyd based their study on a nationally representative survey of 4,005 non-Jewish respondents, gathered between October 2016 and February 2017. They focused their analysis on reactions to two statements: ● ‘Israel is an apartheid state’ ● ‘People should boycott Israeli goods and products’ 21 percent of respondents strongly or partly agreed that ‘Israel is an apartheid state’ while 9 percent agreed that ‘People should boycott Israeli goods and products’. The authors then plotted the percentage of respondents in agreement with the ‘apartheid’/‘boycott’ statements against groups of respondents defined by the number of ‘anti-Jewish sentiments’—a list of statements about Jews deemed prejudicial by the pollsters—with which the respondents agreed: Conhttps://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/blog/the-new-antisemitism-proof-at-last/tinues: Message Thread: amie Stern-Weiner and Alan Maddison - The New-Antisemitism: Proof At Last? - johnhol February 26, 2019, 4:57 pm Jamie not amie nm - johnhol February 26, 2019, 4:59 pm Correct link - johnhol February 26, 2019, 5:01 pm   Searching