The document summarizes the results of a study on the political views of American Jews. It finds that American Jews overwhelmingly identify as liberal and support liberal economic policies like increased government spending and regulation. Around 75% of American Jews voted for Democrats in the last election. The study also found that concerns about Israel had little influence on how American Jews voted compared to economic issues.

1. AN AMERICAN JEWISH – GERMAN INFORMATION & OPINION NEWSLETTER
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GERMANY EDITION
February 11, 2013
Dear Friends:
As I write this, the New York area is trying to recuperate from a genuine blizzard. We
haven't had this much snow in a couple of years. After 2 days people are still shoveling.
Rather than face the chilly winds I've decided to sit at my computer and get this
newsletter out. It beats shoveling. Everything beats shoveling.
Ten days ago I was in Berlin for the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the opening
of the AJC Office (Ramer Center). It marked the beginning of the organized American
Jewish community having a representation in the Germany‟s capital. As the Founding
Director of AJC Berlin I was especially thrilled to be back for the ceremony. In my
American Edition I wrote a little piece about it. You will find it reprinted below.
IN THIS EDITION
THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT – An important event for me.
Likewise for American Jewish – German relations.
THE ISRAELI ELECTION – Now the real fun begins – molding together a workable
coalition.
JEWISH NEW YORK – Population movement but still a strong Jewish presence.
JEWS AS LIBERALS – Still no change!
MODELS OF JEWISH ORGANIZATION – A Chief Rabbi for the U.S. No way!
GLOBAL ANTI-SEMITISM – Yes! It‟s not localized in any one place.
THE TEXTBOOK STUDY – A troublesome and complicated issue.
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2. THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT
There is no doubt - it was because I had been part of it. However, I was more
than just touched by the recent celebration of the 15th anniversary of
the opening of AJC's Berlin Office (now known as the Ramer Institute). As the
Founding Director it was like seeing one of your children grow to maturity and
receive some sort of recognition. For some, 15 years seems practically a
lifetime. In this case 15 years seemed to me more like 15 minutes.
AJC's physical entry into the Berlin landscape actually began in 1997 (not 1998
when the present office was opened.). When I arrived in Berlin on July 2, 1997 the
Mosse Palais Building, where the office was to be, was not yet completed. So,
Wendy Kloke, my first assistant, and I worked out of my apartment on
Bruchstaller Strasse. The great dream of AJC's Executive Director, David Harris
along with the support of Larry and Lee Ramer, to have an AJC office in Germany
(and be the first American Jewish organization to do so), came to pass on that
date. I plugged my new laptop into the phone connection and AJC Berlin was in
business!
It was a real startup. Though my colleague Rabbi Andy Baker and I had
held a well-attended press conference a few months before and had many contacts
made over many years, opening an office - a physical presence - was something new
and quite different. German and Jewish leadership had welcomed visits by AJC
groups over the years but having a staffed outpost, as they say in Kentucky, is
a "horse of a different color". There were a lot of smiles but suspicion
ranked supreme. Many government officials wanted to know if we were coming to
"watch them". Some of the top Jewish leaders thought we might be
there as the "rich American uncle" to tell them how to run their
business. Neither was the case but it took some time to establish trust
relationships and get across the real meaning behind AJC's investment (an
expensive one at that) in opening an office.
A lot happened in my 2 ½ years in Berlin. The German government moved from Bonn
to Berlin and after making all the connections in the Kohl government his party
(CDU) got voted out and the Social Democratic – Green coalition came in with
all new people to relate to. I did a lot of scurrying around.
By 1999 almost everyone that counted had been contacted and been made aware of
what AJC was all about and it was time for me to go home. God (or some suitable
facsimile) sent Deidre Berger to me as a replacement. By the end of the millennium
I was able leave with better hands than mine taking care of the store for AJC.
The Berlin Office had become a permanent part of the Berlin landscape.
What is it we were trying to do in Berlin? Actually, it became clearer
to me as we went along. A voice of American Jewry had impact in Germany. It
still does. On the other hand, many Germans, I found, were deeply interested in
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3. people who were both Jewish and American; a combination almost unknown to the
vast majority. We tried to fill in the blanks.
The importance of Germany to Israel and Jewish interests became
increasingly apparent. Its role in Europe was important in 1997. It has become
even more vital in 2013. AJC has done all it can encourage German leadership to
understand the needs of Israel and Jews around the world. Everything we did was
aimed in that direction.
As a by-product AJC has been able to develop deep and abiding
friendships with individuals and institutions in the Federal Republic. The
relationships go far beyond the political. Many of them are genuinely personal.
It is of those that I am most proud.
In all likelihood the 15th anniversary of AJC in Berlin to most was
just a nice occasion. To me it was that something special that does not come
down the „pike to a working Jewish professional all that often.
THE ISRAELI ELECTION
I will not bore you by repeating what you have already have read, listened to and seen
in your own media about the Israeli election. Prime Minister Netanyahu came out of it
weaker as his movement to the right was somewhat negated by the success of the
more middle of the road new comer Yair Lapid and his Yesh Atid Party.
There has been a lot written about Lapid and less about Yesh Atid. According to CNN,
―The Hebrew Yesh Atid means 'There is a future.' The party's platform is decidedly
domestic: Reforming government, seeking affordable housing, improving a "failing"
education system, and the biggest hot-button issue, putting an end to the exemption
from mandatory military service for ultra-Orthodox Jews who have traditionally been
legally allowed to avoid military service in order pursue religious study.
There's much less from Lapid on how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But in
interviews, Lapid has proposed Israel should give up much of the West Bank -- while
retaining control of Jerusalem.
P.M. Netanyahu has announced that he will try to establish a very politically wide
coalition. How wide is, of course, a major question. Israel, unlike Germany, has many
parties and it on takes a 2% vote to get seats in the Knesset (parliament). There has to
be an enormous amount of “horse trading” between the Prime Minister and the various
parties. It takes skill and patience. Some feel that if he can get it done in a month that
will show that he has lots of both.
We‟ll keep you up to date after the coalition is formed. Patience!
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4. JEWISH NEW YORK
I love big cities and I am always fascinated by the movement of populations and,
especially, ethnic groups. I grew up in the Bronx (part of New York City) during the
1930‟s and 1940‟s. Our section, the West Bronx was largely inhabited by Eastern
European Jewish families. In the 1960‟s, for a variety of reasons, the Jewish population
began to move out – mostly to the suburbs. Spanish speaking people moved in. Today
my neighborhood is almost totally Hispanic. No doubt! They will remain for a number of
years and then move on for the next group.
Recently, the Jewish umbrella organization for New York published a study of
neighborhoods in the City. Described in The Forward, the story notes, ―New York’s
Jewish community is split into radically distinct, quickly changing clusters, the UJA
report out January 17 determined. The study, a neighborhood-level analysis of a
landmark survey the group conducted in 2011, shows the largest Jewish community of
its kind in rapid flux.
In Manhattan’s old Jewish neighborhoods, the Jews are dying out. Jewish populations
downtown are shrinking. Growth is stagnant on the Upper West Side.
Orthodox Brooklyn, meanwhile, is exploding. The Jewish population in the Hasidic
neighborhood of Boro Park grew 71% over the past decade. And in Queens, a
neighborhood of Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union grew by 47%.
The community is still huge. Many of its individual neighborhoods have more Jews than
some mid-sized American cities. ―[T]here are as many Jewish households on
Manhattan’s Upper West Side…as there are Jewish households in Cleveland,‖ said
Pearl Beck, the report’s main author, in an emailed statement.
Its character, however, is quickly changing. For the report’s authors, the picture is of a
highly diverse Jewish community living in large, dissimilar neighborhoods. ―It’s a
reminder to people who deal with New York Jewry that when you go to different
neighborhoods you’re dealing not just with a different demography, but a different
culture as well,‖ said Steven M. Cohen, a leading sociologist of American Jewish life
and contributor to the report.
The area’s overall Jewish population grew to 1.5 million people from 1.4 million people
over the past decade. In an interview with the Forward, Beck said that two thirds of that
growth came from the Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhoods of Boro Park and Williamsburg.
The neighborhood report is the second analysis to come out of the UJA-Federation’s
survey of nearly 6000 Jewish households in New York City, Westchester and Long
Island. The first report, released in June, showed that the area’s Jewish community was
growing poorer, less educated and more religious.
This new analysis highlights deep disparities between the city’s various Jewish
population clusters in categories like income and intermarriage.
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5. ―There’s a measure of bird of feathers flocking together,‖ said Cohen. ―It’s not that every
type of Jew is scattered evenly.‖
The Jewish community in Washington Heights and Inwood in far northern Manhattan
has grown 144% over the past decade, by far the fastest growing neighborhood in the
study. The community there is still small – just 12,900 Jewish households. Still, it’s
young and heavily Orthodox, and poised to continue to grow.
―We’re catching it as it’s really blooming from a Jewish population point of view,‖ said
Cohen. ―The West Side has priced them out of the market.‖
As Orthodox identification grows, identification with the Reform and Conservative
movements is shrinking across the area. That’s most visible in places like the Upper
West Side, where the percentage of people identifying as Conservative dropped from
25% to 20% between 2011 and.
Not all areas have seen comparable decreases. In Queens and Nassau County, for
instance, the proportion of Jews identifying as Conservative has been more stable.
―Our hypothesis is that people live more traditional lives in the suburban communities,
and that’s one dimension of their traditional life,‖ Beck said.
Incidentally, I now live in a northern New York suburb, Rockland County. In the last 20
or 30 years its western section has become a haven for Orthodox Jews. Wikipedia
reported, “The County has the largest Jewish population per capita of any U.S. county,
with 31.4%, or 90,000 residents, being Jewish. Rockland also ranks 9th on the list of
highest-income counties by median household income in the United States with
$75,306 according to the 2000 census.
When I lived in Berlin I was a resident of Wilmersdorf. My neighbors seemed to be very
connected to the neighborhood but it did not seem to have any ethnic majority. On the
other hand, Kreuzbrerg had a distinct Turkish flavor. On arrival in Germany I asked if
there was a Jewish neighborhood. I was told there was not. I wasn‟t surprised.
However, now with so many Russian immigrants perhaps there is one today that I am
not aware of.
P.S. I came across a story in The Jewish Week about a neighborhood in the West
Bronx not far from where I grew up. It is about a synagogue that is holding on by its
financial fingernails. It hit a very simpatico string in my heart. You can read it by clicking
here.
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new-york-news/paradise-twilight
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6. JEWS AS LIBERALS
Sometimes studies come up with findings that show results that are not expected. When
that happens there is usually much interest and, sometimes, great excitement.
How about studies that report results that only reinforce things you already know? They
are usually reported on the back pages of the media if they are reported at all.
Such a study recently emanated from the National Democratic Jewish Council, an
organization that is part of the Democratic Party.
The Times of Israel reported, ―New findings released this week from a post-election
survey of American Jews confirm that US Jews lean left by a wide margin on economic
issues.
The findings were celebrated Friday by the National Jewish Democratic Council as
proof that ―American Jews are firmly aligned with the Democratic Party.‖
The findings show an across-the-board preference for increased social spending and
government regulation on most economic questions. In fact, opposition to liberal
economic policies, which ranges from 25 to 30 percent in the new findings, correlates
almost exactly with the estimated 30% of Jews who voted for Republican Mitt Romney
in the 2012 election.
The findings also confirm other recent polls that have suggested economic issues are
foremost on Jewish Americans’ minds when they participate in the American political
process.
The latest findings were released by the left-wing New York-based Workmen’s Circle
this week, with the figures gleaned from a national survey of American Jews conducted
just after Election Day by NYU’s Prof. Steven Cohen and Prof. Samuel Abrams of Sarah
Lawrence College. It drew on 2,671 American Jews who responded to a pre-election
survey, and a follow-up post-election survey with 2,067 of them.
Respondents identified overwhelmingly as ―liberal‖ (55%) rather than ―conservative‖
(26%). The remaining 19% identified as moderate. These figures coincide with findings
published by the Republican Jewish Coalition in November showing 56% of Jews
affiliating with the Democratic Party and 19% with the Republicans.
That split was mirrored on several issues polled. Some 55% of Jewish voters favor
government regulation of business, while 28% expressed a more skeptical view of
regulation. Jews prefer lowering defense spending to increasing it by a similar factor,
53-26. And Jews believe Medicare can be saved without a loss in benefits by a factor of
50% to 28%.
Support for liberal economic policies seems to decline somewhat when government
spending is an explicit part of the question.
Thus, when asked to choose between the phrase, ―Poor people have hard lives
because government benefits don’t go far enough to help them live decently,‖ and the
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7. phrase, ―Poor people today have it easy because they can get government benefits
without doing anything in return,‖ Jews sided with the first by a lower 43-31 margin.
When asked even more explicitly to choose between ―the contrasting positions of fewer
government services with reduced spending vs. many more services with increased
spending,‖ Jews favored more services by an even narrower margin, 43% to 37%.
The findings also reaffirmed the old aphorism of American Jewish sociologist Milton
Himmelfarb that Jews ―earn like Episcopalians, and vote like Puerto Ricans,‖ showing
that left-leaning economic views were not connected to income. ―Those earning over
$250,000 express liberal views on economic justice as frequently as those earning far
less. Jews earning $250,000 or more were as likely as lower-earning Jews to vote for
Obama and other Democrats,‖ the study found.
The study noted that ―commitment to Israel exerted the least impact among six issues
measured, in sharp contrast to the powerful influence of economic justice attitudes. That
is, once a voter’s positions were determined on economic justice, their attachment to
Israel made hardly any difference in predicting their vote for President, Senate and the
House.‖
Recent polls, including a post-election exit poll conducted by pollster Jim Gerstein for
the left-wing group J Street, also showed that Israel was not an influential issue driving
the American Jewish vote. In the Gerstein poll, 53% of Jews said the economy was the
foremost issue on their minds, followed by 32% who said health care. Israel scored
much lower on the list, with just 10% saying it was their top election issue.
But Israel’s low showing in the list of top priorities does not reflect lack of concern for
Israel, pollsters have said. The post-election Republican Jewish Coalition-funded study
asked bluntly: ―In making your decision on whom to vote for president, how important
were issues concerning Israel in your decision?‖ Asked directly, 77% of Jews said Israel
was either ―very important‖ (30%) or ―somewhat important‖ (46%).
The discrepancy has been explained as reflecting American Jewish confidence in both
parties’ commitment to Israel. Thus, while a huge majority of Jews said Israel was an
important issue, only 23% told the RJC-funded study that President Barack Obama was
―pro-Palestinian,‖ compared with almost two-thirds who said he was either ―pro-Israeli‖
(45%) or ―neutral‖ (17%).
O.K. So now it‟s official – American Jews are liberal. Not much of a surprise. Incidentally, I
agree with the next to the last paragraph above about the importance of Israel. There may be
differences in support for some Israeli policies but not for Israel‟s security.
MODELS OF JEWISH ORGANIZATION
I probably shouldn't be including this piece because when it comes to matters of
"religion" I am far from an expert. However, with some trepidation I'm including it
because I think it is instructive about American Judaism, its practice and how it differs
from European and Israeli models.
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8. Jonathan D. Sarna writing in Jewish Ideas Daily notes, "The public face of world Jewry
will change this summer. Come September, both England and Israel will install new
chief rabbis. Jonathan Sacks, the brilliant and widely published chief rabbi of the United
Kingdom, is retiring to be succeeded by the affable Ephraim Mirvis, currently rabbi of
the Finchley Synagogue in North London. Yona Metzger, the Chief Rabbi of the
Ashkenazi community of Israel, is completing his ten-year fixed term, to be succeeded
by whomever a special 150-member electoral assembly selects—for the moment, a
subject of intense speculation and backroom maneuvering
The position of chief rabbi dates far back in Jewish history. In the Middle Ages, when
Jews were treated as a corporate body, the chief rabbi served not only as the judge,
scholar, and supreme religious authority for his community, but frequently bore
responsibility for collecting its taxes as well. Many a chief rabbi, as a result, was
appointed or confirmed directly by the king.
Chief Rabbis today confine their authority to the religious realm, but their role is never
purely ceremonial. Inevitably, they must also devote themselves to promoting their own
brand of Judaism (usually some variety of Orthodoxy) over all the others. Israel’s chief
rabbinate, in recent years, has sought to undermine more liberal approaches to
conversion and has taken a hardline stance on women’s issues and on the thorny
problem of who is a Jew. Rabbi Sacks alienated liberal Jews early in his tenure and
promoted a centrist form of Orthodoxy that those to his religious right openly disdained.
As a matter of law, the First Amendment precludes the government from recognizing
one religious authority as ―chief‖ over another. Just as America introduced free-market
capitalism into the economy, so it created a free market in religion. Contrary to
expectations, this has had the paradoxical effect of strengthening religion in the United
States. As Thomas Jefferson observed as early as in 1820, religion thrived under the
maxim ―divided we stand, united we fall.‖
In this environment, the creation in America of a government-protected form of Judaism
under the authority of a chief rabbi was clearly impossible. Instead, American Jews
accommodated themselves to the nation’s competitive religious marketplace, which by
and large has served them well. Rabbis, like their Christian religious counterparts, win
or lose status through their individual activities and accomplishments, exemplified by
Newsweek’s annual listing of the 50 most influential rabbis of the year.
American Jews have nevertheless been reluctant to recommend their free-market
approach to religion to Jewish communities abroad. A recent conference hosted by the
prestigious American Jewish Committee, for example, heard a litany of complaints
concerning the Israeli chief rabbinate and its maltreatment of non-Orthodox Jews,
Russian Jews, women and converts. But in the end, AJC called for ―significant
modifications‖ to the chief rabbinate, rather than the embrace of the religious free
market. A paper by former Undersecretary of Defense Dov Zakheim, delivered at the
conference, argued that ―what is needed. .is not the abolition of the Chief Rabbinate, but
rather its transformation into a much more circumscribed, yet relevant and all-inclusive
authority.‖
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9. Perhaps “significant modifications‖ to the chief rabbinate" might work in Israel but
nothing even close to it could ever come to pass in the U.S. Our "free market" system is
deeply imbedded in our religious life. Individual synagogues and Jewish organizations
hire and fire their own rabbis, educators and other professional personnel. Each goes its
own way.
Germany's Jewish life, it seems to me, is different from either of the two models
described above. While most of it is underwritten by tax or other public monies,
religiously there is no hierarchy. The organized "communities" receive the funding and
they make the decisions on how it is spent. It's certainly not a "free market" system but
neither is it controlled from "above".
My view is - as long as it works; keep doing what you're doing!
GLOBAL ANTI-SEMITISM
Israel Hayom recently reported, ―The number of anti-Semitic incidents worldwide rose
worryingly, according to a report on anti-Semitic trends prepared by Information and
Diaspora Minister Yuli Edelstein and presented at Sunday's cabinet meeting. The report
indicates a rise in terror acts and attempted terror attacks against Jewish targets,
particularly by those associated with extremist Islamist movements or the radical Right.
Edelstein's report coincided with International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked
globally on Sunday.
The report mentions a rise in street attacks, both verbal and physical, against Jews
throughout the world. The trend is most pronounced in Western Europe. However, anti-
Semitic incidents are up throughout the world, in Eastern and Western Europe as well
as in the U.S., Canada and Australia.
This is the fourth year that the report has been issued. It is based on data collected by
the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University,
headed by Professor Dina Porat.
Statistics published at the end of October reveal that the number of anti-Semitic
incidents of all kinds in 2012 was 45 percent higher than the previous year.
In 2012, several particularly heinous acts of vandalism were seen at memorial sites,
cemeteries and synagogues in Russia, Venezuela, Belgium, Austria and other
countries. According to the report, "In Germany, a Jewish cemetery is desecrated
almost every week." The report suggests that neo-Nazi groups are on the rise in
Eastern Europe, with such groups having begun to acquire weapons in the Czech
Republic. In Poland, militias have become active, the report indicates.
The report also warns of the rise in political power of right-wing and radical left-wing
parties in Egypt and Ukraine. In South American countries such as Venezuela and
Chile, Israel is a main subject of political propaganda, which makes use of classic anti-
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10. Semitic motifs like the claim that Jews have power in disproportion to their numbers, or
that they have dual loyalty. Some individuals use Holocaust denial to garner support.
On manifestations of anti-Semitism in the Arab and Muslim world, the report says there
is no significant change from the previous year, and contrary to expectations, the
responses to Israel's recent offensive in Gaza — Operation Pillar of Defense — were
much milder than the responses to Operation Cast Lead in December 2008.
"This is most likely because the operation lasted only a few days, the number of victims
on the Palestinian side was relatively low, and public opinion in the Arab world was
focused on problems in Syria and Egypt," the report suggests.
Nevertheless, the report looks at the expressions of incitement by the ayatollahs in Iran
and says, "It appears that the worse the sanctions aimed at isolating Iran, the greater
the vigor with which it adopts anti-Semitic messages."
In the digital world, the report says, classic anti-Semitism continues to proliferate. This
includes anti-Semitic websites, social networks and smartphone applications.
Conspiracy theories, including the highly utilized Protocols of the Elders of Zion,
continue to be popular on social networks and websites.
According to Edelstein, the report proves that there is no connection between Israeli
policies and racist incidents.
As evidence, the report says: "During Operation Pillar of Defense and following it, there
was no sharp increase in anti-Semitic incidents. There is no doubt that as part of anti-
Semitism there are anti-Zionist approaches and delegitimization of the State of Israel,
but unfortunately, no policy of the State of Israel will diminish these manifestations of
racist hatred against Jews."
Perhaps some of what appears in the article is a little “over the top” or little excessive in
its rhetoric. "In Germany, a Jewish cemetery is desecrated almost every week." is not
what I call accurate reporting. What does “…almost every week‖ mean? 50 out of 52?
However, there is little doubt that the virus of anti-Semitism remains virulent and
widespread. Sadly it‟s a constant. Yes! It‟s a Jewish problem but frankly it‟s as much of
one for any individual or society that intends to keep democracy strong.
THE TEXTBOOK STUDY
I guess that a warlike episode like the recent one between the Israelis and the
Palestinians brought on by the rocketing of southern Israel from Gaza was not enough
of a dispute. Now, another non-shooting event has broken out over what appears in
Palestinian and Israeli textbooks. In this one the disputants are not the normal ones. As
it turns out it is the Israelis and a Jewish academic and the Israeli government.
Recently The Jewish Daily Forward in a piece byNaomi Zeveloff and Nathan Jeffay
noted, “A controversial in-depth study that clears Palestinian Authority school textbooks
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11. of the charge that they demonize Jews and Israelis has become an orphan, virtually
upon its release.
Since Yale University psychiatry professor Bruce Wexler, Bethlehem University
professor Sami Adwan and Daniel Bar-Tal of Tel Aviv University rolled out their study’s
results February 4, the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land, which
commissioned the project, has disavowed the study.
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate — one of the council’s four constituent members — has, too.
The U.S. State Department, which fully funded the study, has refused to comment on it.
And the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, which sent out a press release
February 5 announcing that it would host a Washington rollout for the study, has now
called that release’s distribution an accident.
According to Wexler, the fury over the report is a recent development. Last May, he
said, the study received unanimous support from its 17-member scientific advisory
panel, an international group of education experts, who drafted and signed a document
approving both the methodology and the findings. But now, three members of the panel
have publicly denounced the project.
Those involved in the project attribute much of the response to it to Israeli government
officials, who have led the charge against the report, denouncing it as ―misleading,‖
―highly distorted‖ and ‖biased, unprofessional and significantly lacking in objectivity.‖
The study, which looked at textbooks used by both Israelis and Palestinians, found that,
with some exceptions on both sides, neither side’s books dehumanize the other as. on
one side, Jews and Israelis, or on the other, as Palestinians or Arabs, respectively. But
the study also found that books used in schools on both sides distort history and use
facts selectively to favor their own respective narratives, at a significant cost to building
peace.
The Palestinians’ alleged demonization of Jews and Israel in school textbooks has been
a long-standing grievance for pro-Israel advocates. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that
the Palestinians have voiced satisfaction with the study’s findings. But on the Israeli and
Jewish side, protests reached a fever pitch.
And so a small non-shooting dispute has broken out with experts on both sides claiming
that truth is not only on their side but that the study is biased. The critics of the study
claim that not all the factors have been considered and because of that the report is
skewed.
I‟m not enough of an education expert to know what‟s right and what‟s wrong – and I
guess that each side has its points. However, I‟m impressed that The Forward would
undertake printing the piece which can be taken as being highly critical of Israel. With
the same objectivity in mind, I‟m giving you the opportunity to read the article and make
up your own mind.
Click here to read it. http://forward.com/articles/170669/fierce-reaction-greets-study-of-
alleged-hate-in-pa/?p=1
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