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(JTA) � A survey by the Anti-Defamation League found that significant
portions of people in 10 European countries believe a range of
antisemitic stereotypes, including more than one in three people in
Poland and Hungary.
The ADL measures antisemitic attitudes across a range of countries by
asking respondents if they believe a set of 11 stereotypes about Jews,
ranging from �Jews have too much power in the business world� to �Jews
are responsible for most of the world�s wars.�
This survey, taken from November to January, polled more than 6,500
people across 10 countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom.,
Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia.
The margin of error for Ukraine and Russia was 3.1%, and was 4.4% for
the remaining countries.
According to the ADL�s methodology, �survey respondents who said at
least 6 out of the 11 statements are �probably true� are considered to
harbor anti-Semitic attitudes.� In Hungary, 37% reached that
threshold, while the figure was 35% in Poland. In Ukraine, 29% of
respondents met that threshold, and in Russia and Spain, the figure
was 26%. The lowest figure, 8%, was in the Netherlands.
Although Poland and Ukraine had relatively large portions of
respondents indicating that they believed in antisemitic stereotypes,
their percentages each represented a steep decline from previous
surveys. In 2019, the last time the survey was taken in those
countries, 48% of Polish respondents and 46% of Ukrainian respondents
met the ADL�s threshold for antisemitic attitudes.
Stereotypes around Israel were especially prevalent. More than 40% of respondents in Poland, Spain, Belgium and Germany said �Jews are more
loyal to Israel than to this country.� More than 30% of respondents in
all countries polled expressed that belief. And in Ukraine and
Hungary, more than half of respondents said �Jews have too much power
in the business world.� The survey also found that in the countries
polled, rates of antisemitism �tend to be higher on the political
right than the political left.�
The survey found, however, that Holocaust denial was less common
across the countries. In all the countries polled, either zero or 1%
of respondents said �The Holocaust is a myth and did not happen.� A
higher percentage across the countries, though still a small minority,
said, �The Holocaust happened, but the number of Jews who died in it
has been greatly exaggerated.� That number appeared to be highest in
Ukraine, Hungary and Russia, all countries where the Holocaust took
place.
In Russia, 27% of respondents said they had not �heard about the
Holocaust in Europe during World War II.�
https://www.jta.org/2023/05/31/global/more-than-a-third-of-people-in-hungary-and-poland-have-extensive-antisemitic-beliefs-adl-survey-says
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