A survey of people from over 100 countries by the Anti-Defamation league also found that 46% of those taking part did not know about the Holocaust

An estimated 1.09bn adults have antisemitic views, new research has suggested.



The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish nongovernmental organisation, surveyed over 50,000 adults from 102 countries and territories to produce the ADL Global 100 report.

They judged that 26% of those surveyed had antisemitic attitudes, which the group estimates represents 1.09bn people worldwide.

Those taking part were asked to respond to 11 stereotypes about Jewish people. To be classified as holding antisemitic attitudes, respondents had to agree with at least six of the statements (listed later in this article).

41% believed that "Jews are more loyal to Israel than to this country/the country they lived in" to be "probably true" while "Jews have too much power in the business world" was believed to be "probably true" by 35%.

46% of people surveyed said they did not know about the Holocaust, although this dropped to 6% when looking at only western European participants.

Worldwide comparisons

The West Bank and Gaza was judged to be the most antisemitic territory in the world with 93% of people there judged to have negative views towards Jewish people.

All the countries in the top 10 most antisemitic locations were in the Middle East or north Africa region.

74% of those polled across the entire region agreed with the majority of the Jewish stereotypes.

By quite a significant margin, the least antisemitic place in the world was judged to be the south east Asian country of Laos. Just 0.2% of people there agreed with the majority of the stereotypes.

The UK (8%) is also judged to be among the least antisemitic places worldwide, just ahead of the US (9%).

The ADL have transformed the results into an interactive map, giving much more detail about each country and region including a breakdown of how each statement was responded to.

Almost one in five (19%) of British people agreed that Jewish people had too much control over the US government.

Religion and anti-semitism

49% of Muslims who took part were judged to have antisemitic attitudes. However, this was somewhat skewed by the views of those in the MENA regions.

To break this down, Muslims were less likely to hold those views in Asia (37%), western Europe (29%), eastern Europe (20%) and sub-Saharan Africa (18%).

24% of Christians were judged to be antisemitic, with those in eastern Orthodox and Catholic counties more likely to be than those in Protestant countries.

The Jewish stereotypes

The following stereotypes were put to people taking part in the survey:

Jews are more loyal to Israel than to [this country/the countries they live in]

Jews have too much power in international financial markets Jews have too much control over global affairs Jews think they are better than other people Jews have too much control over the global media Jews are responsible for most of the world's wars Jews have too much power in the business world Jews don't care what happens to anyone but their own kind People hate Jews because of the way Jews behave Jews have too much control over the United States government Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust

Methodology

The surveys that took place in each country were sampled to make them as representative of the overall population as possible.

The margin of error for countries with 500 interviews was +4.4% and for those with 1000 interviewees, it was +3.2%.

To see the numbers responding for each country and much more about the methodology, look at the ADL's website.

