The counseling profession's relationship to Jews and the issues that concern them: More than a case of selective awareness

The goals of this article are to define anti-Semitism; demonstrate the necessity for accurately labeling anti-Semitic behavior as such; provide longitudinal evidence of anti-Semitism and the mistreatment of Jews and the absence of addressing Jewish issues by the counseling profession; prepare a compendium of the preceding-and in so doing, create an awareness of the resulting problem. The author posits that the near universal failure of those committed to multicultural counseling to rail against anti-Semitism and embrace the notion of Jews as a culturally distinct group poses a serious threat to the delivery of bias-free counseling and thus the image that the counseling profession presents of itself to other mental health professions and the general public.