Different Antisemitisms: On Three Distinct Forms of Antisemitism in C | Page 11

Comparing the Jews’ subjective perceptions with the measure of the frequency of people in
the general population in the respective countries who think it is probably true that ”Jews
have too much power in the business world”, the same pattern of discrepancy emerges, albeit
less drastically. In this connection, we may also note that there is a correlation between the
extent to which the general population in a country harbours the viewpoint that, ”Jews have
too much power in the business world” and the proportion of Jews in the country who have
heard that “Jews are responsible for the current economic crises”. And again Sweden diverges
from this general pattern by a somewhat larger discrepancy between the two measures, mainly
consisting of a considerably lower presence of this stereotype in their population (9%). Still, 4
out of 10 among Jews in Sweden claim to have come across such an attitude within the last 12
months.
Do Jews in Sweden consistently confront antisemitic statements to a lesser extent than
Jews in other European countries? With respect to the suggestion that “the Holocaust is a
myth” – it seems so. See Figure 10:

This also holds true when it comes to the proposition that “the interests of Jews in our country
are very different from the interests of the rest of the population". See Figure 11.

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