CNN Poll Reveals Depth of Anti- Semitism In Europe, (Nov. 2018)
** A SHADOW OVER EUROPE **CNN Poll Reveals Depth of Anti-Semitism In Europe, Nov., 2018
Anti-Semitic stereotypes are alive and well in Europe, while the memory of the Holocaust is starting to fade, a sweeping new survey by CNN reveals. More than a quarter of Europeans polled believe Jews have too much influence in business and finance. Nearly one in four said Jews have too much influence in conflict and wars across the world.
One in five said they have too much influence in the media and the same number believe they have too much influence in politics. Meanwhile, a third of Europeans in the poll said they knew just a little or nothing at all about the Holocaust, the mass murder of some six million Jews in lands controlled by Adolf Hitlers Nazi regime in the 1930s and 1940s.
Those are among the key findings of a survey carried out by pollster ComRes for CNN. The CNN/ComRes poll interviewed more than 7,000 people across Europe, with more than 1,000 respondents each in Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Poland and Sweden. The poll was commissioned and completed before the killing of 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh -- the deadliest ever attack on the Jewish community in the United States.
The poll uncovered complicated, contrasting and sometimes disturbing attitudes about Jews, and some startling ignorance.
Forgetting the Holocaust? About one European in 20 in the countries CNN surveyed has never heard of the Holocaust, even though its less than 75 years since the end of World War II, and there are still tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors alive today. Lack of Holocaust knowledge is particularly striking among young people in France: One out of five people there between the ages of 18 and 34 said theyd never heard of it.
But Europeans do believe it is important to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive. Two-thirds of Europeans said that commemorating the Holocaust helps ensure that such atrocities will never happen again. That figure rises to 80% in Poland, where the Nazis established Auschwitz, the deadliest concentration camp of all.
Half of Europeans said commemorating the Holocaust helps fight anti-Semitism today. But at the same time, a third of Europeans said that Jews use the Holocaust to advance their own positions or goals. The same number disagreed and nearly a third of respondents expressed no opinion.
Complex relations: Attitudes sharpened when it comes to the relationship between the Holocaust, Israel, Jews and anti-Semitism..
The poll also put a spotlight on European attitudes toward other minorities. While 10% of Europeans admitted they had unfavorable views of Jews, 16% said they had negative views of LGBT+ people, 36% said they had unfavorable views of immigrants, 37% said that about Muslims, and 39% said it of Romani people...
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still_one
(92,366 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,975 posts)The numbers likely run about the same here in the States. It was these paragraphs which, IMO, kind of explains the bigotry:
The belief in Jewish power runs in parallel with enormous overestimates of the number of Jews in the world.
About two-thirds of the respondents in the survey guessed too high when asked what percentage of the world is Jewish, and similar numbers got the answer wrong for their own countries.
The article goes on to explain that Jews only make up .2% of the World's population and no country, other than Israel, has a population more than 2%. And yet, we are an existential threat to so many.
Two countries, the United States (51%), and Israel (30%), including its occupied territories in the West Bank (2%), account for 81% of those recognised as Jews and eligible for citizenship by Israel under its Law of Return. France (3%), Canada (3%), Russia (3%), United Kingdom (2%), Argentina (1%), Germany (1%), Ukraine (1%), Brazil (1%), Australia (1%) and Hungary (1%) hold an additional 16%, and the remaining 3% are spread around 98 other countries and territories with less than 0.5% each. With nearly 6.5 million Jews,[6] Israel is the only Jewish majority and explicitly Jewish state. source
In the US, four states (CA, TX, FL, NY) have a larger populations than the entire world population of Jews, and in California, for every one Jew in the world there are two California citizens. And yet, we are the threat to the world.
Equally disturbing, IMO, was this:
(Americans do not fare any better: A survey carried out on behalf of the Claims Conference earlier this year found that 10% of American adults were not sure theyd ever heard of the Holocaust, rising to one in five millennials. Half of all millennials could not name a single concentration camp, and 45% of all American adults failed to do so.)
When one ties together factors like overestimation of population, lack of knowledge about the Holocaust (and Jewish history and culture as a whole), and the longevity of anti-Semitic myths/stereotypes, we will see an increase in anti-Semitism, and, more to the point, an acceptance of it by more and more people. In all honesty, I don't think many people are anti-Semitic, but I do think most people do not give a shit about Jews or our lives, and barring another Shoah, I don't see that changing.
appalachiablue
(41,168 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)is a real trigger for hated. I use to think it was a small personal, one on one thing. I have changed my mind, and while the haters wont classify it as envy, I think that is what it is.
I grew up in Westchester county NY, all my neighbors were Jewish. Wonderful family units and they made sure their children got where they needed to be. Maybe because I was the black sheep of my family they felt good about allowing me to be part of their culture. I have so many good memories from those times.
I would never have thought this would happen in my lifetime.