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Almost 25% of American hiring managers don’t want to advance Jewish people in hiring processes, alarming survey on workplace antisemitism finds

Almost 25% of American hiring managers don't want to advance Jewish people in hiring processes, alarming survey on workplace antisemitism finds

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

“It would seem to confirm our concerns that the growing antisemitism in our society is also spilling over into the workplace,” said Vlad Khaykin of the Anti-Defamation League.

Almost 25% of American hiring managers don't want to advance Jewish people in hiring processes, alarming survey on workplace antisemitism finds

Across American culture, politics, and even business, expressions of antisemitism have grown louder in recent years. It’s 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 there’s evidence that discrimination is seeping into the workplace, too.

27 comments

partial_accumen

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I know that antisemitism is on the rise, but the authors of the article seemed to suggest that Judaism is the primary target of discrimination as shown in these studies. However, the article even points out that Muslims experience it even more, yet this is the last time the authors speak on that.

"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. "

If you look at the study which is the source cited by the article the topic of religious discrimination gets much MUCH wider.

Here's a some quotes from the study that I'm sure will generate some conversation here:

"The fact that Muslims receive significant attention in workplace discrimination literature may speak to the frequency and intensity with which Muslims experience discrimination in the workplace vis-à-vis other minority religious groups."

"Finally, recent research suggests that evangelical Christians are especially likely to perceive an increase of religious hatred and social persecution in the United States more broadly over the past decades, even if actual levels of hostility have not increased"

"An African American mainline Protestant woman from Alabama reflected that early on in her work life, about 15 years ago, when she was an office manager of a department store, her coworkers would “insult” her by calling her “Holy Roller.”9 This incident seemed to be precipitated by the fact that she would be “turning my Christian music on to encourage myself and to encourage others.” The fact that her non-Christian colleagues did not appreciate this illustrates how this respondent may also have been an enactor of unwelcome behavior in the workplace."

"Several of the evangelical respondents described above shared that a sense of hostility or unwelcome at work was significant enough to inform their choice to leave their jobs or to apply for specific jobs. Surprisingly, however, the only respondents in our entire sample who described religious discrimination in terms of preventing career advancement or resulting in firing were white evangelical men. "

"In a final example of the complicated nature of evangelical narratives, a white evangelical man who worked as a truck driver in Ohio described how he believed he was “let go” from a previous job after he requested not to work on Sunday mornings.36 Although he acknowledged this may have been because of scheduling needs, he also felt that those who made the decision “did not like me, because I was a Christian.” However, paradoxically, the same respondent shared later that he felt that Muslims in his current workplace “use their faith as a way—as a victim card, to get whatever they want,” including changes to shifts for religious reasons."

Cjwii

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As a hiring manager I don't want anyone who's religion is their whole identity to advance in the hiring process I don't give a fuck if you're Christian Jewish Muslim Hindi whatever I care if you're a good worker and if you make whatever imaginary sky entity you worship more important at the workplace then the actual work we do, I don't want you on my team.

fsr1967

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That's not what this is about. It's about people who simply are Jewish.

wahming

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According to the actual study, it impacts all religions. This is a crappy clickbait article that decided to mention the Jewish bit and ignore all the others.

Also, the study itself is of extremely dubious veracity

kent_eh

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Regardless, that shouldn't be something a hiring manager should even be aware of.

Ghostalmedia

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The study: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23780231211070920

Edit: Wrong link. Here is the real one. https://www.resumebuilder.com/1-in-4-hiring-managers-say-they-are-less-likely-to-move-forward-with-jewish-applicants/

This thing might be true, but it’s not peer reviewed, is being used to advertise a product, and appears to be getting a lot of heat.

key

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That's not the study the headline comes from. The article links/references a few studies/surveys as well as specific personal experiences. The headline specifically comes from the much less reputable "resumebuilder" survey

Ghostalmedia

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Doh. You’re right.

Yikes, this study isn’t super great. Not academic, not peer reviewed, didn’t post their data and survey questions, is being used to sell a product, and it seems like they’re getting flack about it and have to rerun it.

It might be correct, but there are a LOT of red flags.

mlg

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Lol I'd like to see the stats for Pakistanis in IT

Have heard its impossible to get promotions if your coworkers or boss is Indian

HelixDab2

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It's also impossible to get promotions if you're Indian, but the wrong caste. India claims to have abolished the caste system, but anyone one that's dalit knows that's bullshit.

Rivalarrival

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Any hiring manager who actually provided an answer to that question has violated EEO regulations.

wahming

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according to the Anti-Defamation League.

I think I see the problem right there. This is like quoting the KKK on issues regarding white people.

badbytes

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Headline is ambitious and ambiguous

jet

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One huge thing we could do to diminish anti-Semitic behavior in the world, is to stop calling the government committing a genocide by a religious title. Stop conflating the genociders and the religion.

MSgtRedFox

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New study results:

If you have money, you can pay any number of "research groups" to prove anything that aligns with your beliefs...

Studies also find that sometimes other organizations whose existence is also predicted on your beliefs will back those studies...

Sources: hold on, I'll pay someone...

danekrae

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Yes that the alarming thing to worry about. Not the genocide that america is paying israel for.

Namstel

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Two or more things can be alarming at the same time.

gedaliyah

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So we shouldn't worry about American bigotry? That's a weird hill to die on.

danekrae

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Worrying more about cushy jobs, than funding genocide is weird to me.

I guess my priorities aren't right. We can worry about the Palestinians, when america has dealt with it's problem with antisemitism, that is definitely a bigger problem than black people and Muslims have been facing.