US media coverage of antisemitism last year left clear indications that the issue has become politicized, according to an Israeli study released on Sunday.
“The Discourse on Antisemitism in the United States as Reflected in the Mainstream Media—Review of 2020,” by Lior Sirkis of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, found that “the two sides of the political map accuse the other of being responsible for the phenomenon. The right blames the left for being responsible for antisemitism and anti-Zionism, while the left attributes it to white supremacists on the right.”
The political divide reflects a split within the US Jewish community, wrote Sirkis, which leads to difficulty in agreeing on the definition of antisemitism, its causes and how to combat it.
This political divide is also apparent in Israeli coverage of antisemitism in the US. Israel Hayom published five opinion columns about antisemitism on the left that year, while Haaretz did not cover the issue at all. It did, however, write about antisemitism among right-wing Americans.
Read more at Times of Israel.
{Matzav.com}
I know secular liberal Jewish Americans who sincerely believe that anti-Semitism in the US is only an issue by white supremacists and (of course white) Trump supporters.
Crazy as it sound from their perspective it makes sense. They never walked down the street in a solid blue inner city and got jeers or were accosted for wearing a yarmulka. Even when it comes to the murders in Monsey and Jersey city although the perpetrators were not white or Trump supporters, the media they read told them that it is only because Trump is president that we are now seeing such things. Therefore they believe it
(Most importantly they believe it because that is what they want to believe)