Surveys show spike in British anti-Semitism
Forty-five percent of all Britons hold anti-Semitic views, according to a new survey carried out by the Internet-based market research firm YouGov for the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA.)
According to a separate CAA survey (not conducted by YouGov), 54% of British Jews fear that Jews have no future in Great Britain and a quarter of British Jews have considered leaving.
Ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust (on January 27), the YouGov survey revealed that one in eight Britons believe Jewish people use the Holocaust as a means to garner sympathy.
The two surveys also found that one in four British people (25%) believe that Jews chase money more than other British people (YouGov); one in six people (17%) believe that Jews think they are better than other people and that Jews have too much power in the media (YouGov); more than half of all British Jews feel that anti-Semitism now echoes the 1930s (CAA); well over half of British Jews (58%) believe Jews may have no long-term future in Europe (CAA); 45% of British Jews questioned feel their family is threatened by Islamist extremism (CAA); and 77% of British Jews have witnessed anti-Semitism disguised as a political comment about Israel (CAA).
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