Anti-Israel Sentiment Predicts Anti-Semitism in Europe

Edward H. Kaplan and Charles A. Small
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Edward H. Kaplan: School of Management, Yale University; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale University; Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yale University
Charles A. Small: Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2006, vol. 50, issue 4, 548-561

Abstract: In the discourse surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, extreme criticisms of Israel (e.g., Israel is an apartheidstate,theIsraelDefenseForcesdeliberatelytargetPalestiniancivilians),coupled with extreme policy proposals (e.g., boycott of Israeli academics and institutions, divest 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.

Keywords: anti-Semitism; anti-Israel sentiment; anti-Zionism; European attitudes; conditional probability; Anti-Defamation League (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1177/0022002706289184

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