{"id":63868,"date":"2017-09-27T12:28:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T16:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63868"},"modified":"2017-09-26T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T23:01:35","slug":"economist-erasmus-blog-anti-semitism-in-britain-no-room-for-complacency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63868","title":{"rendered":"(Economist Erasmus Blog) Anti-Semitism in Britain&#8211;No room for complacency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So how bad are things in Mr Blair\u2019s homeland? On the face of things, Britain is a relatively good place to be Jewish. When anti-Semitic feelings across Europe are compared, the UK tends to do well. But a new study by the London-based\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpr.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Jewish Policy Research<\/a>\u00a0gives an unusually nuanced picture of opinion in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>It found that hard-core anti-Semites, who \u201cexpress multiple anti-Semitic attitudes readily and confidently\u201d, amounted to 2.4% of the population, while a further 3% could be described as \u201csofter\u201d anti-Semites, expressing somewhat fewer negative views. To probe their opinions, respondents were invited to react to propositions like \u201cJews think they are better than other people\u201d or \u201cThe interests of Jews in Britain are different from\u2026.the rest\u201d or \u201cJews have too much power in Britain\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study said that there was a \u201cmuch larger number of people who believe a small number of negative ideas about Jews but\u2026may not be consciously hostile or prejudiced towards them\u201d. It found that 15% of Britons agreed at least in part to two or more anti-Semitic propositions, with a further 15% agreeing at least in part to one of them. The researchers\u2019 interpretation was cautious:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis emphatically does not mean that 30% of the population of Great Britain is anti-Semitic\u2026Rather the 30% figure captures the current level of the diffusion of anti-Semitic ideas in British society, and offers an indication of the likelihood of British Jews encountering such ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/erasmus\/2017\/09\/anti-semitism-britain\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So how bad are things in Mr Blair\u2019s homeland? On the face of things, Britain is a relatively good place to be Jewish. When anti-Semitic feelings across Europe are compared, the UK tends to do well. But a new study<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63868\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,429,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-judaism","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63870,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63868\/revisions\/63870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}