This is like the time when 69% of Democrats said Israel shouldn’t retaliate to years of Hamas rockets, and supine liberal Jewish groups wrote it off as a policy difference over Israel. Except without the excuse that it has anything to do with Israel:
Neil Malhotra, of Stanford Business School, and Yotam Margalit, who teaches political science at Columbia, report on a survey of 2,768 American adults in which they “explored people’s responses to the economic collapse and tried to determine how anti-Semitic sentiments might relate to the ongoing financial crisis.” They asked, “How much to blame were the Jews for the financial crisis?”… But what the Stanford and Columbia academics find “somewhat surprising” is the partisan breakdown among the American public: “Democrats were especially prone to blaming Jews: while 32 percent of Democrats accorded at least moderate blame, only 18.4 percent of Republicans did so (a statistically significant difference).” Why is this surprising? Because of “the presumed higher degree of racial tolerance among liberals and the fact that Jews are a central part of the Democratic Party’s electoral coalition.”
It’s not particularly surprising on a “tolerance” level, if only because venomous liberal sexism and racism long ago eclipsed the left’s hypocrisy on anti-Semitism.
But the difference is worth bearing in mind the next time you hear that evangelical Christians only back Israel because they want to bring about the apocalypse. This is a standard trope that gets trotted out to deflect attention from the left’s reluctance to support Israel, the implication being that evangelical support isn’t real support either. Of course that’s always been a smear. But now it turns out that not only is conservative support genuine, but many liberals have motives for opposing the Jewish State that extend to their antipathy towards Jews. (h/t: MR reader LG)
References and previously after the jump…
References:
* Liberal Think Tanks, Majority Of Democratic Voters Condemn Israeli Self-Defense In Gaza [MR]
* Kristol: Democrats, Republicans, and Jews [Weekly Standard]
* Progressives Spreading Around Fake Palin Bikini Pic, Gloating About Inexperience And “Patriotic Valley Trash” [MR]
* THE VILE BILE WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH [Malkin]
* OneJerusalem.org Conference Call: Pastor John Hagee, Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Church [FAQ: Debunking Liberal Myths About Evangelical Support For Israel] [MR]
Previously:
* NJDC Tool Aaron Keyak Helpfully Illustrates How Liberal Activists Sneeringly Cocoon Themselves In Asinine Arguments And Dishonest Smears
* Palin Speech Now Online, Liberal Jewish Groups Reach New Heights Of Pro-Obama Denials, Fabrications, And Smears
* Democrats Take a Brave Stand Against Israeli Self-Defense Israeli Self-Defense and Other Stuff Too
