World Attitudes to Jews

A Survey of Attitudes Toward Jews in Over 100 Countries was conducted around the World representing 96.9% of the World’s population

The Anti-Defamation League commissioned First International Resources to research attitudes and opinions toward Jews in more than 100 countries around the world. All interviews were conducted between July 2013 and February 2014.

The data is a result of 53,100 total interviews among citizens aged 18 and over, across 101 countries and the Palestinian Territories in the West Bank & Gaza. Expected margin of sampling error for the weighted global average is +/- 0.97%,.

All respondents were selected at random. Telephone respondents were selected using random-digit dial sampling; face-to-face respondents were selected using geographically stratified, randomly-selected sampling points in each country and at the household level.

Scores were created by asking whether the following negative stereotypes are “probably true” or “probably false.” Respondents who said at least 6 out of 11 statements are “probably true” are considered to harbor anti-Semitic attitudes.

ANTI-SEMITIC STEREOTYPES

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

2) Jews have too much power in the business world.

3) Jews have too much power in international financial markets.

4) Jews don’t care about what happens to anyone but their own kind.

5) Jews have too much control over global affairs.

6) People hate Jews because of the way Jews behave.

7) Jews think they are better than other people.

8) Jews have too much control over the United States government.

9) Jews have too much control over the global media.

10) Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust.

11) Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars. Full results of the survey can be found at http://tinyurl.com/kunqm54 but below are three of the results