A nationwide survey released Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) showed the number of Americans who hold anti-Semitic attitudes remained constant from its 2005 findings, demonstrating once again that “anti-Semitic beliefs endure in America.”
The 2007 Survey of American Attitudes Towards Jews in America, a national telephone survey of 2,000 American adults conducted October 6 through October 19, found that 15% of Americans - or nearly 35 million adults - hold views about Jews that are "unquestionably anti-Semitic,” compared to 14% in 2005.
The survey found that 31% of Americans believe Jews are more loyal to Israel than America, down from 33% in 2005; in 2002 it was 33%; in 1998, it was 31%; in 1992; 35%.
More than one quarter – 27% of the American people – believe Jews were responsible for the death of Christ, down from 30% in 2005, up from 25% in 2002.
Fifteen percent of the general population believes that Jews have “too much power in the US” – unchanged from 2005; 67% for those who are the most anti-Semitic.
Twenty percent believe Jews have “Too much power in the business world” and 18% believe Jews have “Too much control/influence on Wall Street, both up one percent from 2005.
"When it comes to Jews, old stereotypes die hard," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director. "Especially about loyalty, the death of Jesus, and power. For over 40 years one of the most stable and telling indicators of anti-Jewish prejudice in America has been the question of fundamental Jewish loyalty to the US”
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Anonymous2007-11-01 20:39
believing that israel has undue influence over the united states isn't a crazy judeocentric view of the world and it sure as hell isn't antisemitism
>>12
And you've had a lot of contact with "Kikes"? Explain this: How come you're so afraid of such a small fraction of the population? Especially when you think you're better than them.
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Anonymous2009-10-31 15:41
>>13
is pretending not to grasp that "fear" and "hatred" are not quite the same. His deliberate sophistries suggest that he is probably a kike.
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Anonymous2009-10-31 15:50
>>14
is pretending that one can hate without fearing the object of that hatred. Otherwise there can be only pity. Talk about sophistry. Look out! Here comes the big bad JEW! He's gonna get you!
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Anonymous2009-11-04 14:57
>>15
Do you fear cockroaches, then? Mosquitoes? Mice that shit in your silverware drawer?
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Anonymous2009-11-04 16:25
i swear. I'm beginning to think there is some sort of ancient stigma carried by humanity against Jews. like its some subconscious thing that will never go away. like the first ever trolls were the Jews, and we haven't been able to forgive them, hatred for them has been hardwired into humanity or something.
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Anonymous2009-11-04 22:59
>>17
I neither fear or hate these petty nuisances. I keep a clean home, and don't live near a swamp.
I guess I can sympathize with your plight, living in a filthy trailer somewhere in Tennessee or some such place, but if you'd take responsibility for your own problems, then all these things you hate and fear would go away.
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Anonymous2009-11-05 14:55
>>18
The reasons are pretty simple. One of their greatest teachers, I think it may have been Maimonides, was a proponent of isolation, not intermarrying with gentiles, stuff like that. Then there's their cultural focus on study and education. They are not known as the people of the book just because of the Torah. Put these two together and you end up with a very tightly knit, adaptable, and successful subculture. People see their success, envy it, and become hostile. There's also a thing about usury. The old testament treats usury the same way as contemporary law, as the charging of "excessive" interest on money, whereas Christians, what with Jesus having a fit on the money lenders in the temple, have a more conservative view and a deep mistrust of the practice of lending money. Yet somehow the practice continues unabated in Christian societies. More Christian hypocrisy.
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Anonymous2009-11-05 15:17
I don't hate jews. I never understood all this shit about jew this jew that beyond "they have a different religion from us and are a minority".
And willingly don't assimilate with society. Some Orthodoxes are supposedly pretty strict about only marrying Jews. If that's true, who's the real racist?
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Anonymous2009-11-05 22:53
>>20
They were against usury in all its forms during the first few centuries. It's still practiced under the much more deceptive name "Fractional reserve banking". So now many Christians have been duped into thinking that it's something totally legitimate as they watch their wealth plummet.
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I agree. When a Jewish man doesn't desire to mix with a White female or a Hispanic female or a Black female, their decision is fine. When a White man doesn't desire to do the same thing, he's called every hurtful name in the book. That's quite a nice double standard there.
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Anonymous2009-11-05 23:34
name one place the Jews resided in large numbers where everyone else in that surrounding area did not want to kill them.
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anon2009-11-05 23:37
wow, and here i thought the adl would peg me anti-semitic for hating the state of israel. turns out i answer no to all their questions and they don't ask about the existance of israel
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Anonymous2009-11-06 0:42
"More than one quarter – 27% of the American people – believe Jews were responsible for the death of Christ"
Didn't Jewish ruling class ask Romans to kill Jesus of Nazareth because he said some 'unorthodox' things about religion, morality, etc.
I'm not a Christian and I haven't read the Christian Bible, but that's what I've been told on opt-out religious classes in school.
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Anonymous2009-11-11 1:07
Antisemitism remains constant because Jews remain constant. Think about it.
No, any race can become a part of the Jewish faith. But they will never be a Jew (in a racial sense).
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Anonymous2009-11-12 8:57
>>31
Jews can't be jews in the racial sense, every time muscular white masters conquered jewish lands they killed all the men and inseminated all the women.
Anti-semites can't even pick a Jew out from a lineup. They have to be told in advance that the person is Jewish or they have to look Orthodox or stereotypically Jewish.