The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, December 2, 1992- Page 7 ADL survey is no surprise to U-M community by Nate Hurley Daily Staff Reporter Many U-M students and local community members say they are not surprised at a survey released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) last month, which showed 20 percent of Americans hold anti-Semitic views. "It shouldn't surprise any of us that there is some anti-Semitism and racist baggage that Americans carry. That's been true for a long time all over the world," said Michael Brooks, Hillel's executive director. Ximena Zdiliga, director of the U-M's Program on Intergroup Relations and Conflict, said, "I'm not that surprised, to be honest. "It surprises me that people can be so blunt about it. I would guess that more than 20 percent have a negative sentiment toward Jews," she said. The survey used an 11-question litmus test to determine how many Americans hold anti-Semitic views. Similar surveys were conducted in 1964 and 1981. This year's 20 percent of Americans holding anti-Semitic views is down from the 29 percent from a similar 1964 survey, but many people do not think this number is shrinking quickly enough. "It's nothing new to me that anti- Semitism is alive and well," said RC senior Matthew Stein, a member of Hillel's governing board. "I don't know how to react. I mean, are we just looking for a placebo for all the world's problems, or is the anti- Semitism based on something real?" Zildiga offered some reasons why anti-Semitism still exists in this country. "We need to create ranks. We are in a society that is based on hierar- chies and we tend to rank people on various reasons," she said. She noted that "gay people, dis- abled people and fat people" are also ranked in our society. The survey also showed that African Americans are more than twice as likely as whites to hold anti- Semitic views. Statistics noted that 37 percent of African Americans could be identified as anti-Semitic, compared to 17 percent of whites. Zdtliga said her program has rec- ognized the tensions between African Americans and Jews, and said the program frequently holds dialogues between members of the two student groups. "The issues are raised in the con- text of Black and Jewish dialogues," she said. "It's hard to figure out the feelings that (African Americans) have about Jews. It is hard to tell if it deals with inter-group conflict both groups have had in New York or Detroit, or anti-Semitism. History permeates how both groups deal with each other." LSA junior Alan Davis, a minor- ity peer adviser in Mary Markley, agreed. "Usually it's hard for Black and Jewish students to get off of defensive arguments," he said. Brooks suggested that relations in Ann Arbor and the United States ap- pear better than those in other parts of the world. "It has long been the official pol- icy - from the top down - that expressions of such attitudes are unacceptable," he said. "One of the byproducts of the dissolution of authoritarian regimes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union has been the venting of powerful nationalist prejudices that have been long suppressed, he said. "Living in places like Ann Arbor, people tend to be myopic about those types of things. This is not a typical community." Shilpa Satoskar, a U-M graduate and program coordinator of the U-M's Program on Intergroup Relations and Conflict, offered another point of view. "Sometimes I think that since there are so many Jews, some people consider them a threat," she said. Satoskar said she has coordinated dialogues on this topic. "I think with a society like this, it seems like (the survey responses) will be more blatant things. In the dialogues we do, we tackle that and we tackle the subtle things, too. Dialogues are important because they can go beyond the blatant things," she said. -Daily News Editor Andrew Levy contributed to this report Americ-an---ti-Semitic ten 6e-n-c The Anti-Defimation League recently released a report saying 1 in 5 Americans is anti-Semitic. The study asked 11 multiple choice questions each with one anti-Semitic answer. Below is the percentage of people who chose the "most anti-Semitic" answer for a sampling of the questions. The pie chart shows the percentage of Americans who fit into each of the study's three categories Most anti-Semitic Middle 41% 39% I Not a nti- ": ' Semitic Stick together Like to be at More loyal to Too much Lots of Don't care more than other the head of Israel than control on irritating about anyone Americans things America Wall Street faults but own kind JONATHAN BERNDT/Daily Graphic _ICLASSIFIED ADS EURAILPASSES, JAPAN RAIL, INT'L STUDENT IDs, HOSTEL CARDS. 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