Jamie Stern-Weiner: Brief response to an "anti-Semitism" hoax (Dec. 3, 2019)
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BRIEF RESPONSE TO AN ‘ANTISEMITISM’ HOAX by Jamie Stern-Weiner, 3 December 2019
The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) alleges, on the basis of polling it commissioned from YouGov, that ‘antisemitic views are most widespread on the far-left’ while ‘the leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, was particularly popular among people with antisemitic views’.
It is, the CAA notes, ‘the first survey’ to conclude this.
Indeed, all previous studies found the opposite. The Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) reported, on the basis of the largest survey of its kind ever conducted, that ‘[t]he political left, captured by voting intention or actual voting for Labour, appears . . . a more Jewish-friendly, or neutral, segment of the population’. The CAA itself observed, in 2017, that ‘Labour Party supporters are less likely to be antisemitic than other voters’.
So, how did the CAA achieve its surprising results?
Whereas previous surveys asked respondents whether they agreed with a number of negative generalisations about Jews, this new study also tested for agreement with a handful of propositions about the State of Israel….
by Jamie Stern-Weiner, 3 December 2019