Current Events > ~25% of hiring managers in US don't want to advance Jewish people in hiring...

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...processes, alarming survey on workplace antisemitism finds:

At a recent working lunch, Renee Fellman was told that someone wouldnt network with her because shes Jewish.

Fellman, whos a corporate turnaround consultant based in Portland, Oregon was stunned not by the mere existence of antisemitism, she said, but that her brush with it was so overt.

I doubt theres more antisemitism now than 10 or 20 years ago, said Fellman, who previously had more subtle or difficult to interpret experiences of discrimination, such as snubs. People are just expressing it. Its become OK to say it.

Across American culture, politics, and even business, expressions of antisemitism have grown louder in recent years. Its not just high profile statements made by the rapper Ye and basketball star Kyrie Irving or politicians increasingly cozying up to White supremacist groups. Incidents of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assault reached a 42 year high in 2021, the most recent year with available data, according the Anti-Defamation League. And theres evidence that discrimination is seeping into the workplace, too.

A 2022 study published in the academic journal Socius surveying 11,356 workers of all faiths found that more than half of the Jewish respondents experienced discrimination at work a higher percentage than any other religious group, besides Muslims. A smaller survey from November of 1,131 hiring managers and recruiters commissioned by ResumeBuilder.com had even starker findings: Nearly a quarter said they wanted fewer Jewish people in their industry and a similar share admitted theyre less likely to advance Jewish applicants. Among the top reasons cited for those discriminatory behaviors: Perceptions that Jewish people have too much power and wealth.

It would seem to confirm our concerns that the growing antisemitism in our society is also spilling over into the workplace, said Vlad Khaykin, national director for programs on antisemitism at the Anti-Defamation League. It suggests that contemporary workplaces can often be hostile to Jewish employees.

Bloomberg News spoke with a dozen Jewish workers in industries as varied as public relations and supply chain logistics, living in cities across the country. Many expressed a sense of increasing discrimination in their daily work lives, including overhearing antisemitic comments from co-workers or noticing the ranks of Jewish workers thin at their organizations. Most didnt want to use their names fearing it might damage their careers or draw further harassment.

One communications executive from the Midwest said that shes experienced astonishing antisemitism in the workplace and that her Jewish friends and family advise her to not tell anyone her religion or to work with Jewish-owned organizations. Another diversity and inclusion coach said that a non-Jewish employee reportedly put a face mask on his head like a yarmulke and sang The Chanukah Song by Adam Sandler. In a separate incident, that same employee used the phrase Holocaust moment to describe his groups poor performance. He later told investigators he thought his behavior was permissible because he didnt think any Jewish people were present.

Its something on my mind. Im scared about it, said Andy Heller, a San Francisco real estate investor and entrepreneur. His fears were, in part, realized by the ResumeBuilder.com surveys findings: that some perceive Jewish people as money-grubbing, cheap or power hungry.

Too much control, power and wealth these are long standing antisemitic tropes that have been used to justify violence against Jews, said Rachel Schneider, a religious studies researcher at Rice University and one of the authors of the Socius study. Antisemitism is alive and well. We need to attend more to its presence in the workplace.

more at link: https://fortune.com/2023/01/11/hiring-jewish-people-antisemitism-workplace-study/

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As a kid I'd watch media that depicted antisemitism - negatively - and I always wondered what people had against Jews. I grew up in Fresno, CA, where there are almost no Jewish people. (As of now there are approximately 3,500.) So I never knew what the big deal was! I've still never met a Jewish person, to my explicit knowledge. So from my anecdotal experience, it's wild to me that so many people hate them, for apparently just perceived wealth/power/control? That's just white people in general lol.

MorbidFaithless posted...

As a kid I'd watch media that depicted antisemitism - negatively - and I always wondered what people had against Jews. I grew up in Fresno, CA, where there are almost no Jewish people. (As of now there are approximately 3,500.) So I never knew what the big deal was! I've still never met a Jewish person, to my explicit knowledge. So from my anecdotal experience, it's wild to me that so many people hate them, for apparently just perceived wealth/power/control? That's just white people in general lol.

Ive had a similar experience growing up in north Florida. We dont have a lot of Jewish people here and as Ive gotten older Im seeing all this antisemitism and just wondering why. Why do people feel this way towards Jewish people? I still dont quite get it.

MaxEffingBemis posted...

Ive had a similar experience growing up in north Florida. We dont have a lot of Jewish people here and as Ive gotten older Im seeing all this antisemitism and just wondering why. Why do people feel this way towards Jewish people? I still dont quite get it.

Antisemitism is essentially a conspiracy theory and it's fucking wild

People are just expressing it. Its become OK to say it.

Thanks Trump.

MorbidFaithless posted...

As a kid I'd watch media that depicted antisemitism - negatively - and I always wondered what people had against Jews. I grew up in Fresno, CA, where there are almost no Jewish people. (As of now there are approximately 3,500.) So I never knew what the big deal was! I've still never met a Jewish person, to my explicit knowledge. So from my anecdotal experience, it's wild to me that so many people hate them, for apparently just perceived wealth/power/control? That's just white people in general lol.

there are a few towns around where I grew up with relatively large Jewish populations and a lot of it is jealousy of those towns being much more wealthy

I've never found a Jewish person to be too different from most people, if not slightly better than most people. Sometimes a little more polite and stuff. Otherwise, how do you tell someone's religion without asking them?
I grew up in an area with a decent amount of Jewish people, but nothing much.

pedro45 posted...

I've never found a Jewish person to be too different from most people, if not slightly better than most people. Sometimes a little more polite and stuff. Otherwise, how do you tell someone's religion without asking them?
I grew up in an area with a decent amount of Jewish people, but nothing much.

Their names most likely

brestugo posted...

Thanks Trump.

As a Jew, I hope Trump dies a quick, painful death for every Jew, Muslim, Hispanic, queer, and other who wouldn't have been murdered without that terrorist leader on tv constantly.

masterbarf posted...

As a Jew, I hope Trump dies a quick, painful death for every Jew, Muslim, Hispanic, queer, and other who wouldn't have been murdered without that terrorist leader on tv constantly.

Interesting. I would have expected a slow death but that would give him time to talk more, so yeah, I get it now.

Mostly jealously it seems.

They see how successful many of them are even in their own poverish neighborhood's, think they see a pattern and believe they've rigged the system against them in they're favor.

Sad but some people will go through extraordinary lengths to blame anybody but themsevles.

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People still believe in Nazi propaganda

lol hr. to be clear i'm loling at how pathetic hiring practices are.

Rexdragon125 posted...

People still believe in Nazi propaganda

anti-Semitism predates Nazism by thousands of years

Rexdragon125 posted...

People still believe in Nazi propaganda

Jews have been hated long before the Nazi existed.
Henry Ford published antisemitism just months after the Nazi party was created, and he wasnt inspired by them.

Who even knows what Jewish people look like? Unless they're like Hasidic Jews (who stand out because of their hairstyles and clothing choices) then they're just more white people?

deoxxys posted...

Who even knows what Jewish people look like? Unless they're like Hasidic Jews (who stand out because of their hairstyles and clothing choices) then they're just more white people?

Isn't that why the Nazis referred to Jewish people as toadstools during Hitler's reign?

Humble_Novice posted...

Isn't that why the Nazis referred to Jewish people as toadstools during Hitler's reign?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/0/8/AAPCn7AAEgFo.png
No one looks like this

Humble_Novice posted...

Isn't that why the Nazis referred to Jewish people as toadstools during Hitler's reign?

or maybe they just thought they were shit?

cause they were Nazis and all

Was #10 modded or self deleted?