Pour répondre à une enquête d’opinion aux Etats-Unis, il faut s’identifier comme Blanc, Noir ou Juif. C’est ce que montre l’extrait ci-dessous provenant d’un article de la très convenable The Conversation.
Ceci serait inimaginable en Europe, et plus particulièrement en France. Pourtant le développement constant de l’immigration nécessiterait de tenir compte de l’origine des sondés, ne fut-ce que pour justifier des différences d’opinion, tout à fait légitimes mais incompréhensibles autrement.
En fait, beaucoup de commentateurs politiques introduisent de telles distinctions, quand ils signalent par exemple que les réponses de certaines villes sont influencées par l’importance de leurs « quartiers », peuplés par ce qu’ils nomment pudiquement des « personnes issues de l’immigration ».
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While 72% of whites said the US should take a public stance supporting Israel in the war between Israel and Hamas, that figure dropped to 51% in the case of nonwhites, according to a poll by NPR. The Black community, for instance, has a long history of identification with the Palestinian cause, especially since the Six-Day War in 1967. This cause was promoted by radical organizations such as The Black Panther Party and The Nation of Islam, whose leader Louis Farrakhan is a notorious anti-Semite. It gained momentum on the left with Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign in 1988. More recently, the death of George Floyd in 2020 had many young Americans, notably through Black Lives Matter, draw parallels between the structural violence and oppression of both Blacks in the USA and Palestinians in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
As for American Jews, traditionally more liberal, the unity they had once enjoyed in their opposition to Netanyahu has splintered on the face of this crisis. Some are demonstrating against the strikes on Gaza and calling for a ceasefire, while others highlight the victims of Hamas and feel abandoned by their left-wing allies.
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