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Survey Finds One Billion Anti-Semites
Anti-Defamation League’s new global study yields sobering conclusions, 14 May 2014
by Stephanie Butnick
The Anti-Defamation League released the results of its new ADL Global 100 survey, and the results are informative, if bleak. The survey, which they’ve billed as a “comprehensive data-based research survey of the level and intensity of anti-Jewish sentiment across the world,” polled 53,100 adults in 102 countries.
One of the more jaw-dropping findings is that 26 percent of people surveyed internationally—a figure which represents roughly 1.09 billion adults across the world—harbor anti-Semitic attitudes. That’s an estimated one billion anti-Semites, in the world, today. According to this world population clock, there are approximately 7.2 billion people in the world, 1.09 billion of whom apparently hate Jews.
Also shocking is that only 54 percent of people polled internationally had heard of the Holocaust. Another 32 percent of respondents had heard of the Holocaust, but either believe it’s a myth or has been exaggerated. That means that two out of three respondents fall into either one of those two categories, a supremely grim conclusion.
Here are some of the survey’s other findings.
The most widely accepted anti-Semitic stereotype worldwide is: “Jews are more loyal to Israel than to this country/the countries they live in.” Overall, 41 percent of those surveyed believe this statement to be “probably true.” This is the most widely accepted stereotype in five out of the seven regions surveyed.
The second most widely accepted stereotype worldwide is “Jews have too much power in the business world.” Overall, 35 percent of those surveyed believe this statement to be “probably true.” This is also the most widely held stereotype in Eastern Europe.
Among the 74 percent of those surveyed who indicated they had never met a Jewish person, 25 percent harbor anti-Semitic attitudes. Of the 26 percent overall who harbor anti-Semitic attitudes, 70 percent have never met a Jewish person.
Three out of 10 respondents, 30 percent, believe Jews make up between 1 to 10 percent of the world’s population. Another 18 percent believe Jews make up more than 10 percent of the world’s population. Sixteen percent (16%) responded less than 1 percent. (The actual number of Jewish people as a percentage of the world’s population is 0.19 percent).
(http://global100.adl.org/did-you-know)
While Muslims are more likely to hold anti-Semitic views than members of any other religion (49% Index Score), geography makes a big difference in their views. Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa (75% Index Score) are much more likely to harbor anti-Semitic attitudes than Muslims in Asia (37% Index Score), Western Europe (29% Index Score), Eastern Europe (20% Index Score), and Sub-Saharan Africa (18% Index Score).
The three countries, outside the Middle East and North Africa, with the highest anti-Semitism Index Scores are Greece (69%), Malaysia (61%) and Armenia (58%).
The three countries with the lowest anti-Semitism Index Scores are Laos (0.2%), the Philippines (3%) and Sweden (4%).
The Middle Eastern country with the lowest anti-Semitism Index Score is Iran (56%).
Regarding Japan (http://global100.adl.org/#country/japan)
1.Jews are more loyal to Israel than to [this country/to the countries they live in]
49%
2.Jews have too much power in the business world
34%
3.Jews have too much power in international financial markets
28%
4.Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust
18%
5.Jews don't care what happens to anyone but their own kind
31%
6.Jews have too much control over global affairs
28%
7.Jews have too much control over the United States government
34%
8.Jews think they are better than other people
46%
9.Jews have too much control over the global media
28%
10. Jews are responsible for most of the world's wars
11%
11. People hate Jews because of the way Jews behave
9%
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