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>From http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/06/11/world/main511915.shtml
>>>Once again, is Abe throwing the Arabs into the Semitic mix? Is there a
distinction between Middle Easterners and 'all others'? I think once the ME is taken
out of the equation entirely, the number would drop to less than one (1).
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Study Shows Rise In Anti-Semitism
NEW YORK, June 11, 2002
(AP)
"We believe that September 11 and the Mideast conflict have clearly had an impact."
Abraham Foxman
ADL National Director
(REUTERS) Anti-Semitic sentiment in the
United States has risen after the Sept. 11 attacks and the recent upsurge in
Palestinian-Israeli violence, reversing a decade-long decline in anti-Jewish
sentiment, a prominent Jewish organization said Tuesday.
The Anti-Defamation League said a survey of 1,000 Americans aged 18 or older
conducted in early 2002 showed 17 percent of Americans were strongly anti-
Semitic, up from the 12 percent seen in the previous survey four years earlier.
The survey said 48 percent of Americans held no prejudices against Jews, down
from 53 percent in 1998. It had a margin of error of 3 percent.
Incidents of anti-Jewish attacks had risen in 2002, the ADL said. From January to
May, the ADL reported 626 incidents, compared with 564 in the same period last
year. They ranged from arson attacks and anti-Semitic graffiti spray-painted on
synagogues to attacks on individuals, who were punched or verbally assaulted. On
March 30, a swastika was burned into the front lawn of a Jewish-owned senior care
home in Las Vegas.
"We believe that September 11 and the Mideast conflict have clearly had an impact.
As these life-altering events have transformed us as a nation, they have also
triggered the anti-Semitism that was already there, but buried beneath the surface,"
said ADL National Director Abraham Foxman.
Unlike the ADL's previous surveys in 1998 and 1992, Foxman said the 2002 survey
showed opinions about Israel were fostering anti-Semitic beliefs among some
Americans. There was a close correlation between those Americans concerned that
American Jews had too much control over U.S. Middle East policy and those
Americans who were most anti-Semitic, the ADL said.
The poll was conducted shortly after some of the bloodiest fighting between Israelis
and Palestinians. Israel launched an offensive in the West Bank in April after a spate
of Palestinian suicide bombings that killed dozens of Israelis. At least 1,389
Palestinians and 508 Israelis have been killed since the latest Palestinian uprising
started in September 2000 after Middle East peace talks stalled.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll in April found 49 percent of Americans surveyed
sympathized more with Israel, while half of those polled said the Palestinians were
more to blame for the recent violence.
But the ADL survey showed 51 percent of Americans believed the United States had
been tilting too much toward Israel in its Middle East policy.
The ADL survey showed a slight increase in anti-Jewish sentiment to 12 percent
among white Americans from 9 percent in 1998. The number of blacks with strong
anti-Semitic beliefs remained steady at 35 percent, the survey said.
Foxman said the survey showed a distressing increase in anti-Semitism among
America's fastest-growing ethnic group, Hispanics.
The survey showed 44 percent of foreign-born Hispanics held strongly anti- Semitic
views, while 20 percent of Hispanics born in the United States were strongly anti-
Jewish.
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