Who are the Least and Most Antisemitic Americans by Ideology?
I happened across this very interesting and provocative paper by Fordham political scientist Jeffrey Cohen.
Cohen starts by noting the two dominant theories of antisemitism and poltiical ideology in the United States. One theory holds that antisemitism can be found on the extreme right and the extreme left. A second holds that people on the left are least antisemitic, and are more likely to be antisemitic the further right one goes.
Cohen has a third theory. I can’t do justice to his methodology in a short blog post, but essentially he criticizes prior researchers for relying on self-declared political ideology, and for excluded “don’t knows” from their analysis.
The uphot is that the least antisemitic Americans are mainstream liberals and conservatives. The most antisemitic are the extreme left, the extreme right, as one of the theories noted above suggests, but also low information voters, who ske
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