Do One Third Of Americans Blame Economy On Jews?
The Jewish Week
25 Giugno 2009
An online poll on anti-Semitic attitudes in the wake of the Bernard Madoff scandal suggests more than a third of Americans blame “the Jews” to some degree for the economic crisis.
The poll, by two professors at Stanford University, did not distinguish between financiers, corporate CEOs, economists, government officials or others who are Jewish, but simply inquired “How much to blame were the Jews for the financial crisis?”
Five answer categories ranged from “a moderate amount” to “a great deal,” with 24 percent giving the strongest answer, and a total of 38.4 percent attributing at least some blame for the biggest financial crisis since the Depression on “the Jews.”
But rather than fuel concern about rising hate, the poll, taken
in February, has generated an online debate about its methodology, and the Jewish agency that regularly takes the temperature on anti-Semitism is …
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