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August 5, 2006
Anti-Israel or just Anti Semite?
Attitudes Toward Jews, Israel and the Palestinian-Conflict in 10 European Countries from April 2004.
5,000 people in 10 European countries were asked the 11 questions about their perceptions of the Jews. Those respondents who agreed with six or more of these statements were considered to harbor anti-Semitic views.
1) Jews don't care what happens to anyone but their own kind.
2) Jews are more willing than others to use shady practices to get what they want.
3) Jews are more loyal to Israel than to this country.
4) Jews have too much power in the business world.
5) Jews have lots of irritating faults.
6) Jews stick together more than other Italians (Spanish, Dutch, Swiss, Austrians etc.)
7) Jews always like to be at the head of things.
8) Jews have too much power in international financial markets.
9) Jews have too much power in our country today.
10) Jewish business people are so shrewd that others do not have a fair chance to compete.
11) Jews are just as honest as other business people. (Considered prejudiced if answered "probably false" to this statement.)
Participants were also asked the following questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
1. Thinking generally about Israel, would you say that your views are very favorable, fairly favorable, neither favorable nor unfavorable, fairly unfavorable, or very unfavorable?
2. Thinking specifically about the current conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?
3. Please tell me whether you agree a lot, agree a little, disagree a little or disagree a lot with the following statement: "Israel truly wants to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians."
4. Please tell me whether you agree a lot, agree a little, disagree a little or disagree a lot with the following statement: "The Palestinian Authority truly wants to reach a peace agreement with Israel."
The findings?
Unsurprisingly, being rated as an anti-semite made you signifigantly more likely to take a pro-Palestinians perspective on the conflict. Among those who held the most negative views of Israel, some 60% also believed that Jews engaged in shady financial practices, and more than 70% thought that Jews had too much business power. Whatever the respondents' religion, nationality, sex or income level, the more intense their dislike of Israel, the likelier they were to be anti-Semitic. Altogether, 56% of those harboring strong anti-Israel feelings were also anti-Semitic. (For the record, the survey found that Spain was the most anti-Semitic country in Europe, with 22% of respondents qualifying as anti-Semites, while Denmark and the Netherlands, at 8%, were the least.)
So there you go, not all anti-Israeli's are anti-semites, but let's not pretend they are unrelated.
Posted by OneEyedMan at August 5, 2006 4:14 PM
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Thank you for posting this; I'm going to share it with my coworkers.
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at August 7, 2006 12:05 PM
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