[lbo-talk] Hypothesis: Jews Are Less Zionist and

[Luke Weiger]

>From what I saw at the University of Michigan, there may have been
(proportionately speaking) more ardently anti-Zionist Jews than gentiles.
But there's simply no doubt in my mind that there were more ardently Zionist
Jews than ardently Zionist gentiles, for the obvious reasons Marvin cited.

(And amongst the Jews, I'm relatively certain that the ardently pro Zionist
dwarfed the ardently anti-Zionist.)

-- Luke

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:25:23 -0400
From: Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca>
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Yoshie wrote:


> A majority of Jewish Americans are college educated: "A quarter (24%)  of
> Jewish adults 18 years of age and older has received a graduate  degree,
> and 55% have earned at least a bachelor's degree" (at <http://
> www.ujc.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=60654>).  The survey is  from
> 2000-1, so, by now, even larger percentages of Jewish Americans  must have
> bachelor's and graduate degrees.  As the Right complains,  college
> campuses are the least Zionist patches of earth in the USA.>
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Amazing statistic, at least to me: Most (!) US Jews are now college
educated. The US department of education says 34% of whites (presumably
including the Jewish cohort), have completed college compared to 17% of
blacks and 11% of Hispanics.
(http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2005/07/07292005.html). College
attendance rates have doubled since I was an undergraduate in the 60s.

While the high proportion of Jewish students in the US may, as Yoshie
suggests, paradoxically make college campuses "the least Zionist patches of
earth in the USA", that doesn't seem to be at all the case here in Canada.
Montreal and Toronto have the largest Jewish populations, and the Zionist
influence is very strong at both Concordia and York universities in those
cities. You'll recall, for example, the internationally-reported clash
several years ago between Zionists and anti-Zionist demonstrators at
Concordia over the visit of Benjamin Netanyahu. While there were some
progressive Jewish students supporting the protest by mostly Palestinian and
Middle Eastern students, they were far outnumbered by the pro-Zionist Jews.
There's a fine documentary called "Discordia" by two young filmmakers Ben
Addelman and Samir Mallal which is worth seeing if you get the opportunity
to do so.

MG

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