Sunday, August 06, 2006
A Terrible Truth
MEMO
TO: Paleconservatives (Pat Buchanan, Taki Theodoracopulos, et al.), Denizens of the Loony Left (The Nation, International ANSWER, CP-USA, et al.), and Howard Dean's footsoldiers (John Dingell, John Conyers, Nick Rahall, Pete Stark, Neal Abercrombie, et al.)
FROM: Joltin' Django, Esq, Edward Kaplan, PhD, and Charles Small, PhD
SUBJECT: Votre anti-Semitism
Yale University scholars Edward Kaplan and Charles Small have published a paper in which they produce solid statistical evidence to show that the harsher one's views of Israel, the likelier one is to be an anti-Semite. Here's the abstract:
In the discourse surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, extreme criticisms of Israel (e.g., Israel is an apartheid state, the Israel Defense Forces deliberately target Palestinian civilians),coupled with extreme policy proposals (e.g., boycott of Israeli by academics and institutions, divesting from companies doing business with Israel), have sparked counterclaims that such criticisms are anti-Semitic (for only Israel is singled out). The research in this article shines a different, statistical light on this question: based on a survey of 500 citizens in each of 10 European countries, the authors ask whether those individuals with extreme anti-Israel views are more likely to be anti-Semitic. Even after controlling for numerous potentially confounding factors, they find that anti-Israel sentiment consistently predicts the probability that an individual is anti-Semitic, with the likelihood of measured anti-Semitism increasing with the extent of anti-Israel sentiment observed [emphasis mine].
TO: Paleconservatives (Pat Buchanan, Taki Theodoracopulos, et al.), Denizens of the Loony Left (The Nation, International ANSWER, CP-USA, et al.), and Howard Dean's footsoldiers (John Dingell, John Conyers, Nick Rahall, Pete Stark, Neal Abercrombie, et al.)
FROM: Joltin' Django, Esq, Edward Kaplan, PhD, and Charles Small, PhD
SUBJECT: Votre anti-Semitism
Yale University scholars Edward Kaplan and Charles Small have published a paper in which they produce solid statistical evidence to show that the harsher one's views of Israel, the likelier one is to be an anti-Semite. Here's the abstract:
In the discourse surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, extreme criticisms of Israel (e.g., Israel is an apartheid state, the Israel Defense Forces deliberately target Palestinian civilians),coupled with extreme policy proposals (e.g., boycott of Israeli by academics and institutions, divesting from companies doing business with Israel), have sparked counterclaims that such criticisms are anti-Semitic (for only Israel is singled out). The research in this article shines a different, statistical light on this question: based on a survey of 500 citizens in each of 10 European countries, the authors ask whether those individuals with extreme anti-Israel views are more likely to be anti-Semitic. Even after controlling for numerous potentially confounding factors, they find that anti-Israel sentiment consistently predicts the probability that an individual is anti-Semitic, with the likelihood of measured anti-Semitism increasing with the extent of anti-Israel sentiment observed [emphasis mine].
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Sunday, August 06, 2006 
