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Mosby

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Fri Jul 14, 2023, 06:30 PM Jul 2023

Antisemitism more associated with conspiracy bias than politics

Robust debate has been centering on the question of whether the political far-right or “woke” left is more guilty of and responsible for antisemitism, which is reportedly on the rise. New research from the United Kingdom suggests that a different factor more accurately predicts whether a person will espouse antisemitic views.

“Some conspiracy theories are more common on the right, while others are more common on the left,” Daniel Allington, a social scientist at King’s College London, told JNS. “The kinds of conspiracy belief that we found to have the closest relationship to antisemitism are very slightly more common on the right, but the difference is tiny.”

Allington and colleagues at two other London colleges co-authored a new paper, which was published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications and that relied upon two surveys, with a combined 2,662 adults.

The researchers found that “ethnicity, support for totalitarian government, belief in malevolent global conspiracies and anti-hierarchical aggression” were the most accurate predictors of antisemitism.

https://www.jns.org/antisemitism/research/23/7/14/302591/


FTR I don't know why the author chose to misuse the word "woke".

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Antisemitism more associated with conspiracy bias than politics (Original Post) Mosby Jul 2023 OP
Yep Effete Snob Jul 2023 #1
Ah, The Fever Swamp, Sir The Magistrate Jul 2023 #2
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