The Jewish Chronicle reports:
Initial findings released this week from the nationwide survey
‘What’s Changed About Being Jewish in Scotland’ showed that a majority
of the 6,000-strong community blamed the Gaza conflict for rising
antisemitism, with 60 per cent saying the war had “negatively affected”
them. The full study will be published in full during the summer.
Unlike the last report in 2012, several participants were thinking
for the first time about abandoning Scotland, while SCoJeC also
discovered that “many more people” actively hide their Judaism to avoid
discrimination.
One response, held up as typical by the body, said that “the
conflation of the Israeli and Jewish identities within mainstream
Scottish society has created a sense of collective accountability; that
the Scottish Jewish community is somehow partly complicit and hence
accountable for Israeli responses”.
Paul Morron, president of the Glasgow Jewish Representative Council,
agreed that this conflation was “dangerous,” adding that the findings
formed “a warning that the nature of the anti-Israel case and the
extremity of some of the language used is having an adverse effect on
the confidence of some Jews.” More.
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