[P2P-F] Fwd: Prejudice against Jews Rises in 2019

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 3:01 PM
Subject: Prejudice against Jews Rises in 2019
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Prejudice against Jews Rises in 2019
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*The "Mother of All Rallies" event in support of Donald Trump, Sept 2017.
Image courtesy of kelly bell photography/Flickr.*

*Editor's note: this information is shared by PRRI Public Religion Research
Institute. We at *Tikkun* are also concerned with the rise in
discrimination across the various demeaned elements in American society,
with 30% of Americans saying that small businesses should be able to refuse
services to gays and lesbians. We highlight the information about Jews
because, while there is a high level of recognition among liberals and
progressives about the discrimination against gays and lesbians, many
liberals and progressives deny that Jews are another such demeaned group,
and many younger Jews themselves hold that position and think that it is
inappropriate for social change activists to give focus to this issue. It
is highly likely that the rise of prejudice across the board toward
previously demeaned groups can be attributed to the atmosphere of violence
and hate stimulated by the Trump administration and the white nationalist
movement to which it has given strong signs of support, and which currently
manifests in the vicious attempt to demonize asylum seekers at our borders
while escalating attempts to expel "undocumented" refugees living in the
U.S. —Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, *Tikkun

The proportion of Americans who say small businesses should be able to
refuse to serve Jews on religious grounds is up seven percentage points
(19% in 2019 vs. 12% in 2014). Republicans (24%) are more likely than
independents (16%) and Democrats (17%) to say small businesses should be
allowed to refuse service to Jews. Support is up from 2014, when only 16%
of Republicans and 9% of Democrats supported this sort of service refusal.

Men are also more likely than women to say small business owners should be
allowed to refuse service to Jews (22% vs. 16%). Support for all of these
refusals is up for both men and women, with only around one in ten each for
men and women endorsing these types of religiously based service refusals
in 2014. Though there are no substantial differences by age in support for
religiously based service refusals that target Jews, support has increased
across all age groups since 2014. Support for these religiously based
service refusals has also increased among most major religious groups since
2014.

Support for refusing Jews service based on the religion of the person
seeking services has roughly doubled among white evangelical Protestants
(up to 24% from 12% in 2014), white mainline Protestants (up to 26% from
11%), and Catholics (up to 20% from 10%), while the religiously
unaffiliated (11% vs. 11%) and nonwhite Protestants (19% vs. 14%) have
remained mostly stable in their attitudes on these issues.

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