"a Half Of Britons Hold An Anti-Semitic View...."

[DTCwordfan]

So says the Telegraph headline on page 2.

The on-line is slightly different...but that we are returning to the 1930s with our perception of Jewish folk

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11343209/Survey-shows-antisemitic-views-are-common-among-Britons.html

Is this true and, given that the profile of AB is probably not that much different to UK society at large, which half of ABers ascribe to these views?

[ChillDoubt]

I'd go with Rod Liddle's assessment in VE's link.

[tonyav]

Prudie
I can't recall anyone being anti-semitic in my real life at all for years. As for AB being a microcosm of society at large I find that vastly untrue. I work in a largely male dominated engineering environment, hardly anyone is anywhere near as liberal forgive-all hug-all as AB - you want to spend a couple of lunchtimes with me in the smoking shelter to hear what the man in the street thinks, it would horrify some ABers.


Totally agree with that, Prudie. I also work in a male dominated engineering environment and I'll bet the conversations are very similar.

[Prudie]

I bet they are Tone, except maybe the guys know not to use the C word in front of me if they can help it :-)

[tonyav]

LOL, so you work with gentlemen then, Prudie !.

[Tilly2]

I wasn't in the half that were asked. Ummph!

[xstitcher]

I like your answer Janbee. That is my way too.

[tonyav]

Neither was I.

[DTCwordfan]

Definitely in the pro-semitic camp here, just as I am for Muslims that aren't terrorist fodder....the ones that I know are decent folk.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Apart from being a devout Muslim Mehdi Hasan is political editor of the New Statesman and contributor to the Huffington Post, not to mention being a frequent protagonist of racist bigot and knuckle-dragger (and for those reasons a personal hero of mine) Douglas Murray. Check the Youtube debate between the two "Has Islam Failed Europe?" http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/03/sorry-truth-virus-anti-semitism-has-infected-british-muslim-community